When I tell most people I’m a new mom, or I say that I just adopted a child, they think I am talking about a…
As a writer, inspiration is my driving force. If I have no inspiration, I have no poetry, and I have no…
As poets, we often have to work with a heightened sense of empathy and social awareness. This means that…
There are moments when something I am reading will trigger emotions of my past or will trigger thoughts about…
Many of my poems are inspired by looking into the night sky, and many of them aren’t even about the night sky. I guess when I…
I often feel that I am not just one person but many people one at a time. The me as a child is far…
When writing about cities, it is often a good idea to choose a scene or a setting in that city and write that…
Oftentimes, when I walk around my neighborhood, there is one person who catches my attention. When that happens, I…