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In this free “workshop” hosted by the Ah Haa School, I read poems by Ellen Bass, Ada Limón, William Stafford and Thich Nhat Hahn and offer ideas for writing your own poems. I also read a few poems of my own in response to coronavirus–and create a spontaneous poem from …

Fear has been showing up a lot lately as the globe faces a pandemic–and yet there are ways to meet it so that it doesn’t over come us. In this poem, Staying Home, published on A First Sip, I look at what else might show up to keep fear from …

In these strange days of quarantine, there is still this great draw toward love. That’s the heart of the poem “The Most Important Thing” published on A First Sip.

Writing a poem can be great medicine. Perhaps you’d like to try a simple format–a list poem.   Yes William Stafford   It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That’s why we wake and look out––no guarantees in …

All of us had a moment when the pandemic became real. Mine is related to watching avalanches. I wrote about it in this poem, The Afternoon the World Health Organization Declared the Pandemic, chosen for Rattle.com’s Poets Respond.

What does one of the most brilliant and compassionate minds of our time have to say about human action/inaction and climate crisis? I got to interview Jane Hirshfield about her new book Ledger, a poetic and scientific account of the ecological reckoning we now face. Our conversation was published in The …

And wouldn’t it be nice it the world just told us flat out what we were doing here? That’s the theme of this poem I wrote for the beautiful photograph “Bound” by Natalie Seabolt, and it was selected as Editor’s Choice for the Rattle Ekphrastic challenge! You can even download …

It’s a new year, and Christie Aschwanden and Rosemerry have a whole new season of Emerging Form dropping on January 30. We’ve also got some changes in the works. We will continue releasing regular episodes every other Thursday, but we’re also introducing some new stuff this year. We’ve hired a …

If you’re unable to get to Telluride to visit Piplantri, an exhibit of 111 of my poems and 111 works of art by Meredith Nemirov, here’s an article in the Telluride Daily Planet that talks about the project’s inspirations, the tricks in curating a show with 222 pieces, and the …

What was the scariest poem in Naked for Tea? What was the most interesting thing I learned while writing it? These are two of the questions they asked for the interview in The Colorado Sun, Colorado’s premiere online news outlet. Plus you’ll find a link to a poem about how …