Art Innovation Talk – Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration: Where Visual Art Takes Flight

Next month I am doing a talk about the collaborative process of working with artists across disciplines. Elaine Weiner Reed and April Rimpo two exemplary visual artists invited me to collaborate with them again last year. This time I was to organize the ekphrastic event. In 2019, I participated as a poet in an event …

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Getting Back to Normal

Photo by Craig Adderley on Pexels.com I find interesting that we talk about going back to normal and the 9/11 tragedy within the same week. As humans our ability to adapt and compartmentalize our lives is a wonderous trait (it’s what helped those who survived slavery survive). Sunday night I watched a 60 Minutes special …

Tuesdays

I always think of that book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom on restful Tuesdays like today. It was a very good read and then they did a movie. Back years ago seemed like Hollywood always made a movie out of a good book but the movie was never as good as the book. Somedays …

The Book – St. Paul Street Provocations

Charm City one block south of North Avenue one block east of Charles four blocks west from Greenmount Cemetery I never seem to know what to say in the blog there are so many good blogs out there in cyberspace about every topic one can stretch the mind to think of but I'm feeling like …

Riding High

Hey there. I thought I would share my most recent writing adventure. I was a feature reader on the Wilde Reading's Facebook reading series. It was super fun and cosmic at the same time. As some of you know, I host two monthly open mic's (First Fridays Open Mic on the MWA site and Berks …

Finding Home

I imagine each of us has an idea where we want our poem to live. Some perhaps in a book or literary journal or maybe just the desktop. I like to think that some poems can live in peoples bodies. A poem that resonates and remains with an individual hiding in the background waiting for …

The Dahlia’s are in bloom

Photographs by Duane Winfield I visited the Cylburn Arboretum over the weekend and what a wonderful time with nature. We went because we read that the Dahlia’s - those radiant, beautiful flowers that fill our vases and bouquets were in bloom. Walking and then sitting in the naturalness of it all was peaceful and melted …

To Niche or Not to Niche

I have been giving this a lot of thought. This blog is almost 40 years after my first published piece–something written for a school newspaper. A writing experience which started me on my way to majoring in journalism in college and working on the college newspaper. I interned at Rural America Newspapers working in the …

MFA Blue’s

I had the opportunity to sit and talk with a master Poet somewhat a wordsmith. It was scary and tantalizing at the same time. I wanted to lean in and peel back the skin on his forehead and scoop the soft brain matter and put it in my purse to taste later when I was …

Sunday Morn

Good morning world! It's a cool morning out and the warmth of the sun feels good. I'm starting this blog today because it has been a hell of a week. Work really sucked all week and all I wanted to do was escape and create but other commitments got in the way (or did I …