So Iz Mazano, that poetic one ;-). His first collection is on the way. The only challenge is we now don’t know when it will […]
Category: A Poet’s Diary
Poems of Hope & Courage for 30 Poems in November
Last year, I took part in the 30 Poems in November fundraiser run by the Center for New Americans. I’m doing it again – as […]
The teen romance that led to the translation of hundreds of Danish poems into English
The story is told of an American teenager who visited Denmark for four weeks on a Rotary International summer cultural exchange. During his last week […]
5 Black Poets that will help you understand racism in America
In the two weeks after George Floyd was killed at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, I attended five protests. Prior to this, I […]
Here’s a great tool to help poets perform better in Google search
Many poets and writers focus on trying to get traffic to their sites via social media and forget that for many websites, the biggest driver […]
Kill these 6 excuses if you want to write poetry
There are so many closet poets – I was one for many years – who won’t come out and say they write poetry. There are […]