Found Things: Poetry Buzz
Want Less, an interview with poet Carl Adamschick, gives good tips to poets along the lines of the writing is what matters and have faith in your work (especially in picking publishers who will support...
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Caregifted: A Gift of Respite Gets You a Stellar Manuscript Critique
I love it when parts of my world merge. The writer and the fundraiser in me both are excited about CAWS, a nonprofit raising funds to provide much-needed respite to caregivers through the benefit sale...
View ArticleThe Novelade Stand: Audacious Author Hand Selling Books on the Street
I love this. Last night my friend Ellis Pines told me about a creative new way to promote books invented by author Jennifer Miller and her Novelade Stand. You’ve heard of a lemonade stand? Picture one...
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Poetry Book Cover – An Idea Goldmine
I don’t know of a single poet with a forthcoming book who hasn’t agonized over cover design and how to find a good designer. I just stumbled on The Book Cover Archive, a site that’s a goldmine of ideas...
View ArticlePoetry Magazine Editor Christian Wiman Leaving
Big news in the poetry world, coming I would think as a pretty big surprise to many, editor Christian Wiman is leaving Poetry Magazine and Poetry Foundation, one of the top jobs in the the tiny world...
View ArticleWeather Poetry
From my book Earth Lessons, an homage to the season’s weather. May the weather gods be benign in February! WHY I LIKE WEATHER Famous for always being there, it takes no hikes or long vacations,...
View Article“Christmas Week in San Felipe”– a poem from my book Earth Lessons (soon-to-be...
CHRISTMAS WEEK IN SAN FELIPE Up my nose, between my teeth, tiny bullets of sand flew thick and fast. I lay down lost in wild howling on a dirt road in Baja California. A dim dream, my parents...
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EARTH LESSONS now available for Kindle
I’m so happy to announce the my first poetry collections, Earth Lessons, is now available for the Kindle, on Amazon.I’m excited to jump into the world of e-books, having bought a number of poetry...
View ArticleEarth Lessons – Amazon Reviews
I got some great reviews on Amazon, including a thoughtful one from a reader who had also read my second collection, Femme au chapeau. Some people say they never read their reviews; mine fascinate me....
View ArticleMy blog moved back to Rocket Kids
Come and find me again at Blogger, at Rocket Kids (just google it). The spammers hit this blog ferociously, so I have had to disable comments. Hope to see you over there! Thanks for checking in. Rachel...
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My poem in About Place Journal celebrates my hometown
I’m happy today to have my poem, “On the Rocks, Cliffs, and Tidepools” up in the current issue of About Place, “a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the...
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Italy in mind and on the page: my novel-in-progress
You might remember that I’ve been working on a novel about time travel and Renaissance Italy. And if you know me, you know I’m a fast writer (though not one to complete a novel in a month!). So you...
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Happy birthday, Gianlorenzo Bernini!
I’m only a few days late but still in time to celebrate the birthday of one of the main characters of my novel and play (both in the works): Gianlorenzo Bernini, the genius of the Baroque, the...
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Chopin Reigns
A rain dance poem from Gods of Water and Air. Rain can be like Chopin, all piano strings and syncopated pauses, geometryof blings under wheels and rubber heels.Sudden baptism from branches.Drooled...
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Telecommunications and my dad
Digging back into the old memoir, Rocket Lessons (forthcoming one of these days!), I wanted to rehab some chapters as short essays. As I did, I discovered information online about my father’s biggest...
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Back to Italy this morning
I’ve returned to working on my novel about Italy. Took a wonderful webinar from The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, and it was so full of great tips for editing your novel, that...
View ArticleThings I learned from my readers
In book reviews and personal responses to my poetry, readers have revealed to me more about how and why I write than I could have learned through introspection. They’ve also inspired me to write new...
View ArticleA poem
Wild Ranunculas. This is how you mend, ounce by floating ounce. Each petal lights on the eye, and the five-fingered yellow flowers nod. A moving cloud scars the field in March wind’s bitter tea....
View ArticleBook trailer – Gods of Water and Air on Youtube
My reading of the poem “Flight” on Youtube. From Gods of Water and Air. Thanks, Karen Kelsay, publisher of Aldrich Press, and Ian Layman, who did such a fantastic job on putting together this video!
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Finding the Incarnate in Poetry
I’m delighted that IthacaLit, that fine litmag out of Ithaca, NY and piloted by poet Michele Lesko, has published Barbara Ellen Sorensen’s interview with me, as well as a couple of my new poems....
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