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It’s your weekly dose of the visual poetry project – the ONLY resource that delivers contemporary American poetry in instant + visual form. This one is near and dear to my heart as it [...]

Hello rebel creators.  I know how much utterly banal and useless crap there is on the web.  This is the best of the best, from my desk to yours: Copyblogger just posted the article Here’s [...]

This prompt is a little radical because it involves the play faculty, which is repressed in nearly all adults – or completely cooped by the media and entertainment spheres.  Yes, play [...]

Today’s prompt is about sharing writing for the right reasons.  You know by now that I’m a rebel creator and as such, I feel and act as if writing is a journey – that is [...]

This week’s prompt is short in length and long in courage. And, it’s not the gentlest nudge I can imagine.  It’s actually rather daring and a little wild and maybe even healing. [...]

GRASS The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, past the swinging door into the kitchen. It extends for miles and miles [...]

I just read a blog post by Steven Pressfield, a highly productive creative writer whose stark and muscular writing style tends to float in on enormous angel wings.  If you have not yet read his [...]

Whew! Poetry workshop with Vievee is OVER!  The whole experience was amazing, transformative,  surreal — as in . . . it’s like your sitting in your body without sitting in your body [...]

Some words of wisdom from an editor at a major literary journal, overheard by or addressed towards yours truly:   1. Use the FONT that the journal uses in your submissions, even if they [...]

Easy enough. Unless you want to write a good poem.  Now that’s just F-BOMB hard. Here are a few things I have learned on my way to writing poems: 1. Jack Kerouac was wrong: first thought is [...]