Mass Poets read "In this Place (An American Lyric)" by Amanda Gorman
Please watch and share this beautiful video from Mass Poetry. ❤️ “In This Place (An American Lyric)” features a stirring choral recitation o...
Please watch and share this beautiful video from Mass Poetry. ❤️ “In This Place (An American Lyric)” features a stirring choral recitation o...
Here's a picture Ella snapped of me yesterday. Decided to put on a dress as a change from jeans. In Mississippi, it was 73 degrees and o...
Oh blogger, why can't I quit you? There's no good reason why I should be back here again, but, well, sheltering in place brings out ...
Happy 2020! For more than 10 years I have LOVED this space. It has been a place of growth and healing. When I think about all the poems disc...
Um, hello? Is this thing on? I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to Oxford, Mississippi for the academic ye...
Look y'all, tour dates! My first book tour. I'm thrilled to be able to support my third book Rewilding . Did I mention my poem, Hoo...
OMG! OMG! OMG! Here I am in The New York Times Magazine next to John Legend! Well, not me so much as my poem, " Hoodie, " which wa...
Last week, my poem, " Kettling " was featured on U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown! I have known Tracy ...
January. The coldest month of the year. Fortunately, there's no snow on the ground yet in my neck of the woods. So I am part of the P...
OMG, is it time for a Poetry Action Plan? Why, yes. Yes it is! What, you may ask, is a Poetry Action Plan, or PAP? It is a road map for how...