Excerpt from a poem I am loving right now: The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice… But little by little, as you left their […]
Excerpt from a poem I am loving right now: The Art of Disappearing
Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time. From “The Art of Disappearing” by Naomi Shihab Nye, from […]
Excerpt from a poem I am loving right now: Some Me of Beauty
the fact is that I don’t hate any body any more i went through my mean period… just like that i woke up one morning and looked at my self […]
Break into Blossom
Suddenly, I realize that if I stepped out of my body I would break into blossom *** James Wright, From “A Blessing” When I was looking for inspiration […]
Write Like Your Mother is Dead
** Me and my mom right around the time I wrote the short story. About ten years ago, I wrote a short story. It’s the short story that served as part […]
Praise Song for the Day
Much how I love that Inauguration Day exposes all of us to beautiful music, I also love how it exposes us to poetry. And exposes a poet– writers who most often are in […]
One-liners
Before I can sit down to write an essay, poem, short story, fiction chapter, or article, I have to have the words to the first line in my head. It […]
Poems in my virtual pocket
April 17 is Poem in Your Pocket day. The idea is that everyone should carry a poem in their pocket all day long and randomly– and not so randomly– take […]
Note to Self
On Wednesday, I traveled to Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina to give a talk on some of the things that I learned while writing Hijas Americanas. It is always good to be back […]
