National Poetry Month 2015! Interactive Poetry

Every Friday this April, I am going to feature an original work here for your reading pleasure. Throw rotted fruit, sing praises, lemme know you just don't get it, but do, please, have an experience. If you borrow the work, be polite and cite! Today's National Poetry Month contribution is the full poem featured during January's Fantastic Ekphrastic! … Continue reading National Poetry Month 2015! Interactive Poetry

National Poetry Month 2015! Poem It Up Fridays

It's National Poetry Month, ya'll! What a great year for poetry thus far: During January's Fantastic Ekphrastic, an ensemble from Studio@620 performed my tormented-God-of-Love poem Arc Angel. In February, my psycho-terror narrative poem, A Coterie of Diamonds, was accepted for publication. March, I joined fellow local literary writers for award-winning poet Peter Hargitai's poetry workshop. … Continue reading National Poetry Month 2015! Poem It Up Fridays

The Story of Creation, According to Von

A mother of five nervous children gathers her brood in a small cave. They're hiding in the woods, biding time until the hunt for the family passes them by. To soothe her babies, she closes in towards them and says, "I'm going to tell you the story of how life began eight billion years ago." … Continue reading The Story of Creation, According to Von