Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Editor Kyna Hart of UpJourney has included my comments in an article about “What Makes Good Poetry?” Here is the link to this essay: https://upjourney.com/what-makes-good-poetry #poetry, #originality , #specific, #images, #structure, #strikingimages, #rhyme, #freeverse
My award-winning fiction picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018), is on the May 2022 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Reading List on the theme of Mental Health Awareness. See…
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Recently, three different literary magazines have published my poems. Editor Susan Weaver of the tanka journal Ribbons published my poem “Sunset Landscape” in the spring/summer 2022 issue. I originally wrote this as a quatrain in 1976, but I recently revised…
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