A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2024

Happy New Year everyone! Like all years, 2024 was full of losses and gains. Over the decades that I’ve been writing these blog posts, I’ve learned that looking back on the prose books I’ve read over the past year has helped me think about where I have been and where I...

A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2023

The years go by, don’t they? And although my blog continues to take a back seat to my writing and my running of the non-profit Writing Through, it lies fallow in my brain, awaiting its annual post about what I have read this year. And here we are. This...

A Writer’s Road: 2021 Reading List

The difficult year of 2021 kept up its angry stance until the bitter end, so I am two months late with my annual reading list. Mea culpa! But better late than never, and careful readers of this decade-long tradition may note that this year’s list is quite...

Why Poetry?

Seamus Heaney Amanda Gorman Inauguration Day was an extraordinary day of change and hope in the United States. It was a day filled with emotions, dreams and words……many, many words, and so many of them arrived as poetry. Within minutes of Amanda Gorman’s...