Essays about poetry and poems paired with my collage illustrations, becoming poetry comics. Mostly, I create haiku comics, but you’ll also find a bunch of other poetic forms here, too.
Children love the night sky When my children were younger, they would often point to the night sky and ask me about a star or light. Sometimes it was an airplane, often it was not really a star at all but a planet like Venus or Mars. Sometimes, I didn’t know the answer, and we…
We find a lot to rage about on our small planet. Right now, wars are raging between peoples who have much more in common than they have things that set them apart. Europe is currently rediscovering the brutality of modern warfare, something much of the rest of the world has not had the luxury of…
The history of the universe shines down on us each night. My dad only took me camping one time in my life. I was eleven, and we huddled in our sleeping bags and looked up at the sky. It was littered with stars. Being a creature of the suburbs, I’d never seen that many stars…
I’m tired of living in historic times we only knew timewas moving forward becasue the sun set each day My son told me that he’s tired of living through historic times. He’s eleven and just started middle school — if you count walking to his room from the kitchen every morning and cracking open the…
What happens when dreams are your only escape? our quarantine dreamsescape from realitytranquil oasis What have your quarantine dreams been like? I like to think that my dreams offer me a respite from both the creeping existential dread of a world careening towards oblivion and the mundane stress of keeping a business and household afloat…
The plural of haiku is haiku! Here I will make my stand—on this hill I will die.
Learn how to write a sonnet that slays your enemies and rallies your loyal troops to your defense.
Today I’m posting a sonnet about how we dealt with secrets before they became commodified with the power of algorithms.
The five things you need to write killer haiku. Haiku is one of the most potent storytelling forms available to a writer. Make each syllable count.