Switching it up

Featuring an exclusive golden shovel poem

One of the valuable bits of advice I did not cover in a recent Friday Five post about the book Writers on Writing was this morsel from the essay by Rosellen Brown (author of Tender Mercies and much more):

If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms. Make yourself an amateur in a new genre.

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New poem: ‘Eden in the Ozarks’

Plus some other terrific writing from the latest issue of The Argyle Literary Magazine

Earlier this month, The Argyle Literary Magazine included my poem, “Eden in the Ozarks,” as part of its “bucolia” theme.

Image from “Eden in the Ozarks,” published in The Argyle Literary Magazine

What the heck is bucolia, you ask? It stems from the adjective bucolic, which is from the Greek word boukolos, meaning “cowherd.”

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