As a writer, it’s important both to fall in love with other writers’ words and to take a critical look at how their words work. I do both regularly, and sometimes I take time to post/publish my thoughts. I’ve linked to some of them in the lists below.

In addition, prompts — both utilizing them myself and creating them for others — are an important part of poetry (and poetry community) for me. I link below to some of my favorites.

Published reviews

• for Shining Rock Poetry Anthology & Book Review: Sad Math by Sarah Freligh, 2017
• for River Teeth: This Is Only a Test by B. J. Hollars, 2016
• for Poets’ Quarterly: Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin, 2010
• for Read Write Poem: Mister Skylight by Ed Skoog, 2009
• for Poets’ Quarterly: Even Now by Susanna Lang, 2009
• for Poets’ Quarterly: With the Memory, Which is Enormous by Tony Trigilio, 2009

Books I’ve written about at this blog

• February 2016: Sad Math, Sarah Freligh (poetry)
• July 2013: The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimball (memoir)
• June 2013: The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimball (memoir)
• June 2013: The Great Failure, Natalie Goldberg (memoir)
• April 2013: Blowout, Denise Duhamel (poetry)
• December 2012: The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard, Dana Goodyear (poetry)
• October 2012: ABBA: The Poems, Denise Duhamel & Amy Lemmon (poetry)
• July 2012: Long Quiet Highway, Natalie Goldberg (memoir)
• June 2012: Wild, Cheryl Strayed (memoir)

Books I wrote about at my previous blog

• December 2011: The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch (memoir)
• March 2011: Mercy Island, Ren Powell (poetry)
• March 2011: Human Shade, Robert Peake (poetry)
• February 2011: Blameless Mouth, Jessica Fox-Wilson (poetry)
• February 2011: Rough Honey, Melissa Stein (poetry)
• February 2011: The Poets Laureate Anthology (poetry), section on Philip Levine
• September 2010: Lives of the Animals, Robert Wrigley (poetry)
• May 2010: Underlife, January O’Neil (poetry)
• January 2010: A Walk through the Memory Palace, Pamela Johnson Parker (poetry)
• May 2009: One Hidden Stuff, Barbara Ras (poetry)

Poetry/writing articles (sampling)

• “Games Poets Play” for Read Write Poem: Can we talk (in iambic pentameter)? March 2010
• Writing prompt for Read Write Poem: What do you believe? February 2010
• Writing challenge for Read Write Poem: Fall in love with a poet (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), February 2010
• Writing challenge for Read Write Poem: Starting over (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), January 2010
• Writing challenge for Read Write Poem: Holiday Survival Guide, Poetry style (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), December 2009
• Writing prompt for Read Write Poem: Build-a-poem (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), November 2009
• Writing prompt for Read Write Poem: A new body of work (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), October 2009
• Writing prompt for Read Write Poem: Listening ears and thinking caps (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), September 2009
• “Games Poets Play” for Read Write Poem: Listen up! August 2009
• Writing prompt for Read Write Poem: The double dog dare (with Jill Crammond-Wickham), August 2009
• writing prompt for Read Write Poem: Kiss me, Amelia Earhart, June 2009