The Truth About Ebooks

* You don’t need a Kindle to read an ebook. You can download one onto your computer and read it there. * Ebooks are more difficult for publishers to format correctly than you might think.* Already, more ebooks are being sold on the Kindle than paperbacks are...

What a Big Girl You Are!

Happy birthday, dear blog! Yes, amazingly, this blog is now three years old.  And it is amazing, I must admit.  It’s hard for me to tell whether it’s “grown up” that much over the years or whether it’s changed at all.  So I did go back...

A Call for Directors

I’m changing hats today. The one I’m wearing now isn’t the soft flouncy beret-type of the poet.  It’s also not the isolation-chamber-like helmet of the novelist.  No, today I’m wearing the fedora of the theatre producer because my theatre...

Virginia Woolf Speaks!

My last post stirred up a terrific discussion about prose vs poetry.  You can read it here.  One of the many ideas it made me think about is the idea of old vs new.  Poetry has always been with us, in all languages and all cultures, from the moment we could reflect...

What is a Prose Poem, Anyway?

This is a question which I’ve often asked, but it wasn’t until I was editing Her Life Collected that I started to get some answers.  Note that these answers didn’t come when I was writing the poems, mind you, but when I was editing. I found that...