I'm tired of forgiving cruelty. Can we just live in Dolly Parton's America?

This mythical monster set a high standard for me as to what poetry could be...

Sometimes you just have to carve out some time to be creative...

What are you waiting for?

COVID quarantine felt a lot like my childhood summers. I never got to go away to fancy camps or travel very much or very far, so I spent...

I have an idea. I’ve talked to my publishing friends about it, but they just kind of smile and shake their heads because they know...

I might have learned my most important writing lesson from an art director named Tim Cooper. When I was working at the magazine, he would...

Every year, about this season, I get the creative writing bug, and so I have managed to carry through with a (mostly) daily habit of writing

Evolution of self requires trespassing where some people say she shouldn’t go.

I do have to write. Just like I have to read and sleep and eat. Writing has just been something I always do.