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• The Next Big Thing

  If there’s one thing I love, it’s writers supporting other writers.  The wonderful poet, Anne Champion, has tagged me to participate in The Next Big Thing... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Obama's Inauguration: "We Are All Citizens"

  

  The President delivers a rallying speech about civic duty Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• On Kinship

  

  Last winter, I had the great good fortune to spend two weeks at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  It is a beautiful artists’ colony set in central... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• And This Poem, Too, for My Father

  

  How It Came to Be that the Rook Took the Queen                                                                                         for my father   You... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Upon Waking Up to Discover That My Father Has Turned 70

  

  My father, Fred Willis, turns 70 years old today.  He was born on December 30, 1942, in Mt. Vernon, Washington.  I have never been to Mt. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Praise of a Movement to Overthrow Certainty

  

  Today, I’m writing to seek your support.  As we hunker down in these last few hours of the year, it’s almost impossible not to reflect on the year nearly past... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Calling All Angels

  

  In the week since the almost unthinkable tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Connecticut, nearly every conversation I have had starts with a... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• An Address Book for Life

  

  I am old school.  Or at least old school in the sense that I keep an address book.  An honest-to-God spiral-bound address book with little tabs for each letter... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Feeding the Beast, the Heart

  

  For the third time this week, I got up in the threes to fly across the country.  The threes. And, while I love my work and treasure the incredible... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• To Choose Joy . . .

  

  I love Christmas.  I think about it all year, plan menus in October, start knitting socks in August, sometimes in May.  My heart beats a little faster when I... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Way to a Texan’s Heart

  

  One of the first things David ever said to me was:  “You know, you can’t handle me with food”.  What?   I didn’t even know what that meant. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poems Amongst the Piles

  

  I have a challenging and interesting job and two lovely daughters heading into adolescence.  We have a son in college and two big, frisky dogs.  I teach poetry... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE