One night at the public library
People tell me no one goes to the library anymore. But I think there’s something there for everyone. Sure, you can get all of your needs met on-line. You can read books on [...]
Fabulous or Fractured Lilies: Gardening Tips from Master Gardener, Patti Slavin
One thing about gardening is that you never stop learning. Once upon a time, I shared my trial-and-error knowledge with anyone who would listen. Now that I’m a Master [...]
How does your garden grow? (No, seriously, I wanna know…)
Here’s the totality of what I know about gardening: in order to get stuff to grow, you need sun, water, fertile earth and good timing. The first three are self-evident; by [...]
Monkey suit redux: confessions of the world’s worst bellman
On Saturday, I drove my late-model compact Ford with scratches on the hood from where I’d gotten fed up after a Nor’easter that one time in upstate New York and took a [...]
Hey kids, let’s play it safe this April Fool’s Day
Historically, April Fools’ Day can be traced back to the late 1500s, when the majority of Europe changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Moving the [...]
Mary Buys the Refrigerator Repairman Flowers by Jill Crammond
I have always been a little preoccupied with retro — the retro housewife, that is. Her casseroles, her pearls, her picket fences. I collected old Good Housekeeping [...]
Anything Helps, God Bless by Gianna Russo
Poets are dazzling people, but not in the way you might think. They are PhDs of observation, CEOs of the sensory world. Non-poets carefully tend to their careers, their [...]
Starstruck by Gary McLouth
Poetry is the primary language for the interpretation of all I sense around me, and all that I can sense within me. All written expression comes to me in poetic form first, [...]
Bird in Flight by Lorraine Walker Williams
When I start writing, I never know where the poem will take me. I began “Bird in Flight” on a plane heading to my home state. Using the sestina form with 6 end words [...]
Some Notes on Snobbery by Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney
Elisa and I have been writing poems together on various subjects and in various forms back and forth over email since early 2006. This poem is from a series of them that we [...]
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