First, I’m happy to announce that FORCE OF HABIT, my sf/cop/farce novel, is FREE for Kindle for another four days, 12/23-27, 2012. Go get it! Here is (are?) the rest of my notes on Alice Friman’s Poetry presentation: Mechanics Rewriting–has two basic purposes: To take…

No, alas, I haven’t persuaded Alice Friman, one of the best poets on the planet, to post on my blog. I haven’t even had the unmitigated gall to ask her. What I did do is have the fantabulous good fortune to go to a poetry…

I love writing haiku. Here are a few I’ve done from time to time. Velvet butterflies, Your feet are aglint with dew, The sun’s displayed gems. A swath of sapphire! — My wanton parakeet flies Among the sparrows. Woods.  Distant rifles.  I smile And walk…