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I’m in Penstricken!

It’s been many years since I’ve had a poem accepted by a literary publication, as I’ve been focused on my fiction. About a year ago I got the idea for this poem and it kept nagging at me until I got out my legal pad and finally wrote the first draft on the way to a camping trip (don’t worry; I was the passenger).

It’s called “It’s Too Early,” and today, it appears online in Lines, Volume 2 of Penstricken, a new literary magazine. It’s serendipitous that it’s happening today, two days after my twins’ 9th birthday, and that’s the only spoiler I’ll give… if it’s possible to spoil poetry.

Happy National Poetry Month! If this is the only poetry you indulge in this month, I won’t judge.

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New poem up!

I’ve been pondering writing this for about a week, and finally got a chance to sit down and organs to the skeleton that was this poem. I got inspired by a story on NPR about April being National Poetry Month. I have to admit, I had no idea it was National Poetry Month and was instantly ashamed.

The poem that inspired me was *I think* called “Things in my Journal” and it made me think about the places where we just tend to dump things we don’t know what to do with and then forget about them. For me, this place in the top drawer at my desk at the office. Anyway, the poem is called Things in my Stuff Drawer, and if anyone is familiar with the “Things in my Journal” poem or who wrote it, please let me know, because the interwebs are failing me.

And as always, let me know what you think!

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