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  • maybe a draft; maybe a pass

    I’ve been mailing and passing out a holiday poem card at the close of every year for the past decade or so. The first was a haiku in silver on a kitchen-made clay snowflake…

  • Joan Didion on screenwriting

    During my 90-minute break between speech classes, I sit in an empty room and get lost in Joan Didion. How had I still not seen the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold? The…

  • snippets

    A few weeks ago I was on a webinar with a marketing expert, presumably from somewhere in Eastern Europe who was talking about “sneee-pitz.” The urge to say this word out loud with the…

  • We got some ink!

    Thanks to the good people at Heights-Terrace in Hazleton and Kent Jackson from the Standard-Speaker for their contributions to this project. A video of the students introducing their characters was included with this story:…

  • Is it summer yet?

    There’s no point in getting depressed about it, but work on my own personal scripts may have hit an all-time low this past year. It’s not that I stopped writing … but in the…

  • Free workshops in March

    updated Feb. 10, 2022 I’ll be sharing a creative prompt for poem development inspired by my own process resulting in numerous well-received/published poems in this AIE NEPA workshop offered via the Pike County Library…

  • holiday 2021

  • Her favorite season