Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions…your people, your family, your friends, your furries, your […]
For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In making postcards […]
Where in your life do you offer the cup of love? And how, first, do you extend love to yourself? Under which circumstances do you experience pure joy and can you imagine inviting more into your life? How can we […]
Is it true, as Carl Sandburg posits, “Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly?” How, as a poet, do you get yourself airborne? Whether you are simply poetry curious […]
Have you ever wrestled with angels? Named an angel? Loved or raged in the absence or presence of an angel? Whether you believe in angels or not, you will find them throughout literature, from Blake’s time to our time in […]
I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this month). Van Tuyl anchors us […]
What story have you kept in the cocoon? What would happen if you wrote it out, just for you? In this dual focus course, we’ll consider our heroes, both famous and family, who have inspired us. Using them as inspiration, we’ll […]
True to my hummingbird ways and love for cross-pollinations, I’m expanding my teaching and editing services to include one-on-one Tarot Consults. It’s time to combine my MFA and twenty-plus years as a writing teacher and artist with my twenty-plus years […]
The Tarot cards, all 78 of them, appeared to be silos of experience through which I could interpret many aspects of the Sixties–William Haigwood Editor’s Note: The Counterculture Tarot: a photo journey through the Sixties is a beautiful Tarot deck comprised […]
*Same Class, new title: Second Saturdays: Poetry Read and Critique. Are you looking for a supportive group in which to create new work, receive feedback, and become inspired to send your work out for publication? In this class, in […]