Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

The Taste of Chicago addresses the palates of visitors with delicious foods distinctly Chicago. In turn, what satisfies the hungry eye with ...

When I first saw David Hernandez and Street Sounds perform in the 1970s, I hadn’t yet graduated from college as an undergrad. I had only wri...

Punxsutawney Phil Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Weather Reporter Extraordinaire Halfway between the dawn and sunset of winter, it’s the ...

Cynthia Gallaher’s chapbook Omnivore Odes: Poems About Food, Herbs and Spices brings together poetry, foodie fantasy and herbal healing i...

Alternate 14 offers new levels of steepness Wyoming, home to 10,000 microclimates The above are two haiku I wrote on the road to Ucr...

Wabi-sabi, the quintessential Japanese aesthetic, can be applied to journaling and is, in fact, an integral part of true journaling, whether...

Fire has its own life, it transforms everything, it is never static. Fire sustains us, warms us, cooks our food, keep us through cold nights...

One of the most refined, thoughtful and poetic societies, Japan, has gone through unfathomable disasters in recent history, such as the prof...

A haibun is a Japanese form of journaling involving a journal entry followed by a haiku poem. The haiku serves as a distillation, an associa...

Most pools at Bozeman Hot Springs are indoors After having bathed in some of the remarkable outdoor Montana hot springs locations, I was a ...

Unique motel package deal in Plains let us enjoy Quinn's hot springs in Paradise, Montana During a visit to the area, a local Montana f...

Symes might offer the hottest, most mineral-rich hot springs in Montana, if not North America A local Montana gal friend introduced my husb...

If you are a published poet, I think the most important items to bring along on any out-of-town trip or vacation, but which also might weigh...

Living in Chicago and in the 21st century, I sometimes think it's impossible to get away from it all in the traditional sense. At The Ch...

After waking, if the memory of your previous night's dreams dissolves as quickly as the sugar in your morning coffee, you may want to ad...

Technorati Profile The Uptown Poetry Slam started in Chicago at the Green Mill Jazz Club, circa 1986, and soon became an international phe...

From selling floor to the slam, from cubicle to podium. Where to go in between? Happy hour! As a poor poet, my dinners were usually eaten ...

The best writing employs the use of the five senses to explore metaphor, to show instead of just tell. In the book, "The How to Think L...

In his book on the craft of writing, Next Word, Better Word , poet Stephen Dobyns explains how the great German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, aro...

Chapbooks were originally small, inexpensive books sold from street carts by merry olde English peddlers called chapmen. From the 1500s thro...