A year comes to a close. We may want to take assessment. One of my favorite writing prompts is making a list of 100 blessings. in 2019, it’s easy to have a grim viewpoint. While we each figure out for ourselves what is within our hands and our will to work for change let’s start this week with remembering what we each has that gives us strength and enables us to move toward those goals.…
Continue reading(Dog days of summer. The poet at home in NM.) SUPPORT US New poems going into Hypertext Magazine in Chicago that is also dedicated to social justice services are in the new collection: My Book of the Dead. Congratulations to the staff there on the upcoming 10th anniversary issue in which my poemitos will appear. I am available to work one on one.
Continue readingRegularly, I am asked to submit work to new projects. Recently, after such a request I asked a journal editor to. give me a nudge. It’s a Tenth anniversary edition of the journal, which I shall leave unnamed at this time. I got the nudge and am happy to look at the poems I put aside at the start of summer to choose the ones I’ll submit for consideration. Knowing something about the project…
Continue readingI have been struggling with the purpose of creative writing in these times. I made a pledge to myself that I would have poems done this year. So happy it has come together. Two Men and Me is a short poem written a few years back, nominated for a Pushcart. It’s a minor tribute to two writers I was voraciously reading at the time. I don’t read as much as I once did–then again, what…
Continue reading(Ana Castillo, 2019, NYC) I work with one person and on one project at a time.
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Continue readingTwo Men and Me is a poem that appears in this journal and was nominated for a Pushcart. As a multi-genre writer, in terms of poetry is comes slowly. However, I am thrilled that I have finally gotten what may be a new collection together. #21 Insomnia doesn’t have to be unproductive time. #22. Start a list of 100 Blessings. This list may at first be about all the obvious. Your health, your loves…
Continue readingEasy for me to say you may say reading books versus binging on Netflix. But if you are planning on chillin with Neftlix #12 I do recommend “The Great Hack.” If you “multi-task,” (i.e. surf on your device, talk/text, listen to jams on your EarPods, yell at your kids, snuggle with your pet, argue with your imaginary frenemy, etc.) please listen to to that fifteen minutes. That’s my first recommendation here for easing some…
Continue readingMany of us, among the billion on Fb, have been hacked and know our accounts may easily be manipulated. Still, we remain–for the sake of self-interest, in the name of staying “connected,” or a habit that has gotten hold of our better instinct. Whatever reason you stay on, proceed with caution. Ads catered to your personality and searches and political manipulation to get your vote at elections are not the only ways your life will…
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