This morning I plucked from the library Mary Ruefle’s collection of lectures on poetry, Madness, Rack, and Honey. I trundled it off to brunch with me and prepared to enjoy this book that I’ve longed to read for some time now. And now was that time made real, thanks to our inter-library loan system. (Ironically,…

Last week I wrote about using Natalie Goldberg’s approach to writing, in essence, letting Wild Mind loose on the page. I have to tell you, IT WORKS! Now I’m adding to that a concept from Ken Wilber. (Oh, be still my heart, he’s going to be at Lighthouse this evening.) In No Boundaries, Wilber writes…

TADA! The Front Range Community College catalog is out: please, go to Continuing Ed, search Writing at Westminster campus and sign up for WRIT 2006-001: Creative Writing: Process & Practice and/or WRIT 2014-001: Creative Writing: Techniques of Contemporary American Poetry. At $80.00 + 3.00 for materials, it’s a bargain, averages out to 10.00 per session.…

Isn’t it amazing how books deliver just the message you need at the moment? I’ve been playing hide-n-go-seek with that #$%^ novel I thought I had finished last summer. But in my deepest, darkest mind I know there are still revisions that I need to make. I had just about  convinced myself that I’d never…

According to Kim Addonizio in her wonderful book Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, Allen Ginsberg adapted the traditional haiku form to create what he called American Sentences: seventeen syllables, no intentional line breaks, no required seasonal reference, but an “Aha!” at the very end. In addition to being fun, these sentences promote…