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Ivory Tower Writers Need Not Apply
When I wrote the poems in The Great Hunger, I was concerned about the state of the world’s food supply. I still am. More than ever. I’m increasingly concerned about the health of our shrinking planet. What can one woman do about the massive insults we have inflicted on the environment and on each other?…
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Social Media Explosion
For a long time I’ve been trying to grasp the fine points of social media and its benefits to me as a writer. Most of the time it feels like carrying Jello in my hands. Here’s why: each of many sites might be valuable and many of them need to be linked together. My social…
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So, What’s a Poem Made of?
Our question this week comes from Katie: Help me/us understand what makes something poetry -”A Poem?” Wow, this could take all week! But let me think a minute. Here are a few definitions I’ve hauled around with me for some time: Poetry is the rhythmic, imaginative expression of intense perceptions of the world. The key…
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My Lost Irish Life
Dingle Peninsula, Ireland A head cold is not big deal, but it does change the worldview for a while. As in, I turn on the TV, a rare thing for me. Between the coughing and the sneezing, etc., I am not much good for anything by the end of the day. So I take the…
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Tuesday’s Tip
Today’s question comes from a conversation I had on Saturday at a writerly event. A woman seated at my table said that she has a book of inspirational poems that she has considered publishing. None of these poems have been published anywhere, and that set my check-engine light blinking. If no one but family and…
Karen Douglass, Author 