This is the anthology I have 2 poems in. So excited for the release of the book and an opportunity to read the other poets who have contributed to this important work. After much hard work, I am excited to announce that the hotly-anticipated poetry anthology Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women is…
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NPR Fresh Air, 5/25/22, “At 58, poet Diana Goetsch finally feels right in her own skin”
Tyler Foltz/Farrar, Straus and Groux Fresh Air | By Terry Gross Published May 25, 2022 at 12:26 PM EDT Read or listen here. Where, “Diana Goetsch writes about her later-in-life transition in the memoir“ On my way home from the dentist today I heard the last bit of this interview and thought it…
An Exciting Update on ‘Wounds I Healed’… — Experiments in Fiction
MORE NEWS ON THE NEW ANTHOLOGY. Two of my poems have been selected to appear in it. I continue to prepare the manuscript of Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women for publication, with the editorial expertise of Amazon #1 bestselling poet Gabriela Marie Milton. Both Gabriela and I were deeply moved by the…
Book Review: Copper Yearning, Poems by Kimberly Blaeser (2019, Holy Cow! Press)
Over the past year I’ve come across a couple of Kimberly Blaeser’s poems on the net. A short bit from the author blurb in the book: Kimberly Blaeser, an Anishinaabe writer, photographer, and scholar, served as Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2015-16. She is also the author of … poetry collections and a scholarly monograph… Blaeser…
Book Review – “Shorely,” by Peter Frankis
“Shorely” cover Peter Frankis is a poet whose work I first met when he began hosting at dVerse Poet’s Pub. I learned that Peter is an exceptional poet that has his roots dug in deep to where he lives, the small town of Port Kembla, NSW. Peter has a downloadable link for “Shorely” at his…
Book Review — _In Cold Blood_, by Truman Capote
We all have our souls and we all have facades and then there’s something in between that makes us function as people. That’s what I have the ability to communicate. –Truman Capote, in the introduction to, In Cold Blood. Truman then proceeds to do just that. He meticulously details each of the Clutter Family members…
Reading in 2021
I never read as many books as I would like to, but I’m always happy to have read the ones I have. At this point in my reading life, if a book’s message doesn’t grab me within a certain number of pages it is set aside. There were quite a few of those this…
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