Category: Marcia Diane

OK, I’m really in trouble this time…I’ve got too much to share and too many astounding poets to choose from…maybe they’ll give me a couple more inches this month in the paper… I’ll start at the top with some seriously exciting...

By the time you all are reading this, we should be out of the woods…into that special season of warm days and cool nights, the swelter behind us. It seems perfect then to present a woman of the earth, literally, to be our...

Outside The Lines A literary column By Marcia Diane Cake Look, you want it you devour it and then, then good as it was you realize it wasn’t what you exactly wanted what you wanted exactly was wanting By Noah Eli Gordon...

I have been reading Alice Walker. Her book In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens; a wonderful series of antidotes, speeches at colleges, remembrances of others, and throughout, her never ending search for writers that speak to her...

Rosario Castellanos was featured on the Google front page a few whiles back and, after investigating her, I was excited to feature her here for us. Born in 1925, she was one of Mexico’s most important literary voices in...

This is a good one folks, recommended by one of our very own accomplished poets in our writing group, July Westhale. July is a stellar member of our group, often setting us writing exercises to keep us challenged. I am...

Di Prima will be the second writer from that long ago era of “inconsequential”, not often heard of and consigned to insignificance. Chase Twichell, featured last month was a fellow traveler of those times…the times of working...

Outside The Line, A literary column By Marcia Diane I have a confession to make. I’ve stopped reading and listening to poetry. I know, I know how weird is that. It has to do with how it breaks my heart. I suggested some audio...

It’s February by the time you all get to see this…making time fly, what fun! I thoroughly enjoy doing the research for this column. Today I’m going to feature a poet who: “In the early years of the 20th century, Florence Ripley...

Outside The Lines, A literary Column By Marcia Diane Year’s End; seriously hard to imagine where it went so fast and now having to invent time travel and write to you all for tomorrow. Your celebrations over I will add one last...

A Literary Column By Marcia Diane I cannot explain how we got here to December, really I can’t…it was just the long hot summer, yesterday. I hope you will forgive me the somber nature of this poem…but it speaks to the heart of...

Ha!, we made it just as I thought…luscious, perfect weather…glad we are here and back to the delight of it all. I’ve got a poem-a-day that drops into my e-mail box sponsored by Poets.org. Launched during National Poetry Month in...