A Muted Blue Star Muses

Joie de vivre. The joy of living. That's what we're after. That's what we're always after. And having it takes boldnes...

Had a great time at the Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, KY. Sending a bouquet of thank yous to Bren...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Local Poet to Attend Appalachian Writer's Workshop   June 11, 2015, Pikeville , KY. - Local...

I have closed my Etsy store. Please, let it be known that you can now find my art work and order various items and prints at Fine Art Americ...

Ophelia is, like most Shakespeare characters and particularly the women, a complicated part to play. She is sweet, innocent but not unknowle...

The Humanities are defined on vocabulary.com as: "studies about human culture, such as literature, philosophy, and history". Debat...

There is an internet-inspired trend in text analysis that involves computer tools, such as the above word cloud. The theory is that t...

What is collage poetry? The idea is to take an existing text or texts and make it into something new.  The process is also called Unoriginal...

The "Shakespeare In Community" class on Coursera.org opens by discussing briefly the first lines of Hamlet . But what of first li...

So we're well into National Poetry Month 2015 and it's an exciting one! I hope you'll spend some part of it with me. I have arr...