Blink of an eye / ideas and people connect / in haiku

The following article appeared in the Press-Enterprise, Sunday, December 6, 2015. When my grandmother’s hearing had grown too poor for the telephone, we started exchanging letters. Once a month—on the same day as the Edison bill—I’d receive a handwritten letter, pressed firmly with a retired schoolteacher’s perfect cursive, yellowed paper cut neatly from the same …

This Is the Line

This is the line that marks the space between what this journal used to be, and what it will be in the future. When I started blogging about the relationship between poetry and editing, I had two goals:  1) to demystify the role of an editor within the broader literary landscape, and 2) to become …

Josephina Rownan Green

. . . . Born June 17th, 2010 8 pounds, 7 ounces She’s so beautiful it makes blogging about poetry seem pretty pointless.  But I’ll try to get over it.  For Megan’s birth story, see the baby blog.