Hello all~ First off all, I hope you had a wonderful New Year/Lunar Festival/holiday. Try not to read too into your horoscope for the...

I was out and about in the internet world, looking for places to submit work to (just got declined from Trampset D: ) and I came across...

If you paid attention in literature classes in high school, you learned about rhyme scheme, imagery, and techniques like alliteration and...

Starting in May, I finished and sent off my poetry manuscript to a bunch of agents and places. It was exciting and strange, and I had...

Hello~ VPN's are working and I have a day off! Woo! So, per my last post, I was supposed to come back today with some progress in...

It's pretty well known that wherever there is an emotion that bleeds, there is poetry. Politics bleeds poetry. There are so many mixed...

First off: Sorry the post is a day late! To log into my website I need a VPN (I live in China) and unfortunately VPN's have been acting...

I HAVE FINISHED THE NOVEL! There were one or two things I wanted to add into the novel that I had forgotten, and there are still events...

I've been working on my novel this week, it has been my number one priority. My goal was to finish this sucker this week, by today and...

I don't know if you know but there's this place called The Ekphrastic Review that has bimonthly ekphrastic poetry challenges. Cool,...

Hello~ I wanted to share a fun poetic form I learned about during my MFA, the definition poem! I know that these are often advertised to...

Well, the struggle is real. I've edited about 113 pages of my novel as of this moment, but my goal for today was 135 pages. I'll need to...

Osip Mandelstam was a poet from Poland, who got to see the rise of the USSR. What makes his poetry particularly potent today is that he...

This feels a bit weird to post after the most recent school shooting tragedy in America, but here we are. I've been trying to assess...

Maaaannnnnnnnnn, it is HARD to write on your own schedule with no repercussions other than potentially having no writing future/career. ...

As some of you may know, I attended my MFA program online at Lindenwood University while teaching ESL at a university and living in...

Hello! I have a new! You can check it out here, or through my publication list on the home page. Something cool about this publication is...

Hello! In the effort to maintain transparency, I want to let you know that this is my first blog post in years and is probably just going...