“we have always lived in the castle”

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

Shawn Delgado sat and read and thought about my book in the most generous way and you can read about in the latest issue of storySouth: storysouth.com/stories/revi...

Best final exam I ever took was to memorize and recite six sonnets at a coffee shop sitting across from my renaissance poetry professor. Of the six I still recite this one to myself on probably a weekly basis.

I guess it’s nice that people in my life are reading my book and expressing concern for me. And it’s true the poems are meant to cause disquiet. But I don’t want you to worry about me, I want you to worry about the world.

Keep re-reading this stunning poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:

Revisions & It’s a Wonderful Life

Watched this show because of this blurb and it did not disappoint

This is actually poets

This morning I revised a one-stanza poem into quatrains, then replaced one word and put it back into a single stanza. Sometimes this is the only way I can see and repair the weaknesses. #morningreport

Although you won’t hear of it in the news, Russia bombed Odesa, Ukraine again last night. Multiple dead and wounded:

New one by me in Sixth Finch. I’d rather be in an underdog country.

A snippet by Carolyn Forché that’s helped me make sense of the nonsense

I never really got the hang of Twitter. Here for the poets and a fresh start.