So it goes...

When I first started my writing class at AllWriters' , the last thing I ever expected was to write poetry. I went in with the purpose of writing nonfiction and pretty much nothing else. Well, people like Mario Medina and a couple other classmates inspired me with their poetry, and I decided to start writing it myself. I didn't know where it would lead, but thought what the heck? It's just like a really, really short story. "I tell you we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." - Kurt Vonnegut So, I started farting around with poetry. I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was a nice diversion. Before long, I submitted the poem below to Verse Wisconsin and, lo and behold, they accepted it. It was a great feeling and I daresay was the inspiration to my "push to publish." Writing is one thing, but I started submitting because it is a really cool to have someone say, "this is good; I like thi...

I went looking for a book today and ended up finding it in our upstairs bookcase. The photo above is but one shelf of the two shelf bookcase - which came from the house I grew up in in St. Paul, Minnesota. Now before you judge us on having such a small book collection, let me explain. If you know my wife and I, we are voracious readers - she more than me, but I do alright. We have a stack of books by our nightstand constantly.  (Ironically enough, as I write this at 8:30 on a Saturday night, she is up in bed...reading. What else to do on a February night?) Right now, I have three books up there, From the Top , by Michael Perry, The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Marten Troost and the Hawks of Sorga , by Summer Hanford . These three books are resting on top of a Sun Magazine , a Verse Wisconsin Poetry Magazine and a Bible. Sex Lives is finished, From the Top is in progress, Hawks is pending and Bible is ongoing forever. Finished, in the works, on deck. I've read, I'm r...