It’s nearly the end of August, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what happened this summer. This post is more for my own records than anything else. I’m not sure how wide the audience is for this type of post, but what’s a blog for anyway? A blog’s a… Read More Summer Send-Off
This semester, I have started teaching a writing and rhetoric class (thrilling! surprising! edifying! terrifying!) to first-year college students at my university. Though we aren’t writing poems in the class, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on my own poetry writing process because no matter what genre you’re writing in, all writing has something in… Read More 13 Ways to Revise a Poem
In 1080, Su Tung P’o was a “Special Supernumerary” of the Water Bureau. I’m a Water Plant Operator I, so I feel a bond, fattening up in civil service, preparing a one room cabin for retirement. from “For Su Tung P’o” I know Sue Blaustein from the open mic scene in Milwaukee. A… Read More Interview with Poet Sue Blaustein
I recently sat on a panel of queer writers at Books & Books for Pride Month. I feel sort of funny about writing two advice posts in a row, but I do want to share the list of tips the panel moderator asked us to compile for new writers. I tried to think about what… Read More Advice for New Writers
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