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For Heart Demons I write a personal essay each month. Currently I am working on December’s essay. I started the essay with no idea where it...

Mollyhouse Evening Street Review Otoliths Pure Slush Dark Winter Cream Scene Carnival The Quarter(ly) Exacting Clam Autobiography of a Boo...

In 2021 I started sending out the poems “To Try to Fall” and “I used to think you were beautiful.” By the time the nice editors at Dark Wint...

Most literary magazines want to consider a batch of poems all sent together. Recently I sent poems to Grub Street , a lit mag that wanted fi...

In last year’s new year’s resolution post here at LoveSettlement I mostly talked about writing. That’s what I tend to think about when I th...

No, I did not get a poem in the latest Pushcart anthology. But we’ll get to more about that later. Last Wednesday (10/20/22) I attended an ...

The pandemic continues, so the opportunities for in-person engagement continue to be limited. I can send out copies of “Thousand” to people ...

I just finished a letter I began a month ago. When I send a copy of Thousand out I include a handwritten letter. My writing is pretty legib...

I wrote the following in response to another blogger’s call for writerly resolutions: In 2019 I got a first book published (prose or prose ...

I walked to work this morning. On Saturdays I take the bus. Except today. I guess I just wanted to be moving. It takes me about 40 minutes t...

I processed 12 more paperbacks. Tuesday, March 9. The batch prior I solicited guesses on which would go first, right? But one of the other t...

So two weeks ago I added a batch of paperbacks to the browsing collection. I made a couple guesses and David (in comments) left a guess, an...

I think we're shorthanded today. That wouldn't be unusual. I've already had my lunch - I ate at House of Curries, a chicken tikk...

Last Tuesday I put 14 new paperbacks onto the browsing racks. They're not new, as in brand new from the publisher; being as they were al...

Patricia Cornwell - Predator Anne River Siddons - Fox's Earth James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin - If Beale St...

One of my duties is waking sleeping people. It's not like I tour the library looking for them. But if I hear snoring I get up from the I...