Letter From Poet Elizabeth Alexander

Letter From Elizabeth Alexander, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2009, photo © 2009-2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Our Poetry & Meditation Group began meeting again in January. We celebrated new beginnings with the poetry of Ruth Stone (the poet mentioned in Carolyn Flynn’s piece An Evening With Elizabeth Gilbert & Anne Lamott). This Friday we’ll read [...]

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Getting To Know Singer-Songwriter Alexx Calise

You might not have ever heard of singer-songwriter Alexx Calise, but someday, hopefully soon, that will change. Alexx is a young woman who in her short career in a hard-as-nails industry has managed to release a debut album, Morning Pill; rack up over a dozen endorsements from music gear and clothing manufacturers; get featured as [...]

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Henry The Pug

Henry, Em’s drawing of Henry the Pug, on display at the “Young in Art” show, February, 2010, image © 2010 by Em, All rights reserved. This is Henry. He came from my 10-year-old daughter’s imagination. Sony the Pug was inspiration for Henry. If Henry were real, perhaps he would be Sony’s boyfriend. Em, my daughter, [...]

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late winter haiku

coral blush, my favorite among my mother-in-law’s decades-old geranium plants, December 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. in february four potted geraniums sit by a window -related to posts haiku (one-a-day) and WRITING TOPIC – NAMES OF FLOWERS

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The Short Story & Spring Writing Contests

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him [...]

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The Raw Story: Elizabeth Gilbert In Albuquerque On Love & Marriage

[February 3, 2010, UNM Sub Ballroom] By Carolyn Flynn Elizabeth Gilbert in Albuquerque, February 3, 2010, in the UNM Sub Ballroom, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. From The “You Can’t Hurry Love” Department: The age at which people marry is the greatest predictor of a failed marriage, so marry late and lower [...]

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Cranes In Winter

I Spy A Crane, February 2010, photo © 2010 by Jim. All rights reserved. [insert your haiku here] _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Note: Jim took this photo of two cranes in the field near the house. I liked how the photo came out, soft around the edges. One of the cranes is hard to see; it’s behind branches. [...]

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PRACTICE: Door – 15min

It is two weeks and two days since I walked through my own door, the door to my home, after being away also for two weeks. Four weeks, then, a month since my last trip to Vietnam, where everywhere around me there are doors. Bellhops dressed in long satin traditional robes and hats who open [...]

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PRACTICE — Door — 20min

By Judith Ford Image by Jude Ford, July 2009, in front of the Mathematics Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, photo © 2010 Jude Ford. All rights reserved. This is my son, at the door of the math building at the University of Michigan. A month after this picture he’d go through that door [...]

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PRACTICE — Door — 15min

I had a Writing Practice a second ago. But Mr. Stripeypants wiped his paw across my keyboard and accidentally hit the delete key. What was I saying about doors? Hard to muster the energy to walk through this one. Doors, I remember a door from childhood. Wooden, probably pine, not hollow, real, with a center [...]

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