Michael Allyn Wells

   During July I read the first novel by Diane Zinna. You can read my review here

Dear Reader: It has been two home grilled stakes, one fixed flat tire, a new draft poem, one book review written, another book finished,...

I've arrived home from Portland. AWP19 is history. It always seems like we run on pure adrenalin. It's like moving forward simply ...

Dear Reader, Today was a busy day. Not so much that I was overwhelmed with work, though I had office work I did here at home (we are st...

Dear Reader: Federal workers have started back to work, Trump's poll numbers are in the tank, Roger Stone was taken into custody and...

New  book arrived by mail yesterday. Sometime over the past  week or so I discovered poet whose work on initial read  I enjoyed. I honestl...

Dear Reader: It has been untold weeks since my last confession.  I truly have been a fallen-away blog confessor, but I'm back. ...

Did you have books that took a beating from Sandy?   Here's some expert advice about how you might salvage  some of them. FIRST SAID F...

My wife sends me this link over the weekend to  a Huffington Post article about 12 books (classics) you need on your bookshelf.  I'd be ...

News that Borders is closing down is no surprise to me.  Anyone who follows the bookseller's industry could have suspected it even long ...

Shirley Dent expounds upon the place of poetry in China and contemplates a time down the road, when we're not just sitting up and "...

Yesterday was our 34th wedding anniversary and among other things my wife and I did book store outing. Hey, it's like having your cake a...

Flipping through my new issue of Poets & Writers that came yesterday, I saw a writeup on a Internet site called DailyLit . It's a w...

Last night I attended a event at the Kansas City Public Library in with authors Shirley & Wayne Wiegand presented a factual account of a...

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” ~ Aristotle Toda...

Some time back, on one of my Wednesday Poet Series features, I highlighted a North Western poet by the name of Kelli Russell Agodon . This ...

When I came home from work last night we began tearing up our carpeting throughout most of the homes. The old carpeting along with some oth...

Book Policewoman Jackie Taylor [Mother of Cedar Grove Elementary School student] is unhappy with a book her 3rd grader brought home from the...