Your website can go viral
I haven’t posted for a while, but seeing as it’s national poetry month, here’s a poem I wrote entirely from spam comments left on my blog.…
National poetry month 2017
Two weeks into April and I haven’t mentioned National Poetry Month yet. It’s not that I haven’t noticed it. I’m marking it quietly this year. My…
It’s April: Wake up, fool!
Joyous are the days when I find a new poet (new to me) who makes me fall in love with language—and with life—all over again. It’s…
Enjoy
If you don’t already subscribe to Maria Popova’s blog, my question to you is “Why not?” As one reader puts it, reading Brain Pickings is “like walking into…
I am dying
April fish. But wait, it’s no joke. Of course I’m dying. So are you. We are all dying, right from the moment we are born, and…
Exquisite corpse
A few friends joined me this month for an online game of Exquisite Corpse. Here’s how it worked: I asked each player to send me a…
April poetry challenge #5
The photograph above is the last of five in commatology’s April poetry challenge as part of National Poetry Month. (I’m posting on Tuesday this week…
April poetry challenge #4
The photograph above is one of five that will be posted, one each Wednesday during April 2014, in commatology’s April poetry challenge as part of…
Dancing on the page: poet Yvonne Blomer
Of a hundred or more classmates in my UVic writing classes, Yvonne Blomer is one of only a handful who went on to become a…
April poetry challenge #3
This week’s challenge: Using the template provided here, write a biopoem about one of the four people photographed above and submit it using the comment box at…