A slant, or approximate sonnet for today’s poem during National Poetry Month.
Poetry + fiction + photos + other thoughts
Category: My Poems
What’s similar about coneflowers and hedgehogs? They’re spiny! The coneflower’s scientific name, Echinacea, comes from the Greek word for hedgehog.
The Filmmakers Called it Art is a poem from my book, Stars Crawl Out From Their Caves. It is an ekphrastic poem, inspired by a documentary about factories that have closed.
A poem inspired by one of Monet’s many paintings of waterlilies.
While poems or their fragments are waiting around for the right time, place, or edit, what do you do with them all? Today’s poem is (another) ars poetica.