One of the finest literary events I know runs from 12-6 pm at various venues in the Tower District, all walking distance apart. Groups of...

Reading and learning and studying a poem is purposeful, and the teacher is the guide. This is an exploration the teacher and student...

We’re on the brink of National Poetry Month, an annual 30-day celebration of poetry in all forms and voices. I taught all levels in my...

Relatives, friends, and appreciators world-wide have long believed that Pablo Neruda died by poison, murdered, instead of "natural causes...

I participated in a reading at Fig Tree Gallery in downtown Fresno at the invitation of the artist Marilyn Prescott--whose retrospective...

Thursday evening, September 15, 2022, I'll be introducing the award-winning poet, Mai Der Vang, who will read from her extraordinary new...

I love the Sierra, and spend much of every summer in the mountains. I have favorite walks, several along meadows ringed with huge trees....

I fall into the poet-drop-out category right now. How, you may ask, is this possible for a Poet Laureate? Well, Covid, for one thing....

This is another poem from my writer's block period. It came from my journal scribbling. I looked closely, and then made a list of things...

A couple of poems did come into being after I'd been in writer's block for months while I grieved the death of my mother. This is one of...

It's a hard fact of writing that sometimes the pen flows, the keyboard chatters, the words appear and cooperate...and sometimes they do...