I heard some amazing poetry on public radio last week. Terry Gross interviewed Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, a poet whose daughter was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. After her daughter’s death, Kathleen wrote a collection of beautiful, poignant poems, recently published as Slamming the Door Open. One reviewer called her poems “spare, unflinching, and powerful.” I couldn’t…
The other day, I had the pleasure of working with a coaching client who wears many hats: artist, writer, graphic designer, workshop leader, and creativity coach. She’s one of those people who can do it all and somehow make it look seamless. Her current goal? Getting more of her art into local galleries. We started…
Yesterday, I stumbled upon something I wrote back in 2000, a pivotal time when I was opening up my creative channels. It was a few years after completing my Ph.D. in 1996 and spending some time teaching. But by then, I felt the need to step away from the “Ph.D.” identity entirely and explore a…
There was a child went forth every day.And the first object he looks upon, that object he became.–Walt Whitman The late poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers often have a “key image” that threads through their work, shaping their creative journey. He suggested that writers might spend an entire lifetime exploring a single key image,…
A book I’ve been working on for nearly ten years was supposed to be published last February. Everything was set—until the university slated to publish it dropped their program at the last minute due to internal politics. Just like that, I was back at square one, wondering if my book would ever find a home….
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