Michael Allyn Wells

Dear Reader: It's been 2,259 frequent flyer miles, one published poem, a ton of new books and literary reviews to read, one reading ...

And I successfully have 30 new poem drafts! 

For the second year I am participating in the Big Poetry Month Giveaway.   This event started 6 years ago by poet & writer  Kelli Rus...

April is coming  and there is no stopping it!  With it will come Baseball, tax deadline and poetry.  Hopefully you dread the tax deadline ...

While National Poetry Month is relatively new I will share a like to The Academy of American Poets web site where they feature a list of 30 ...

It's National Poetry Month and NaPoWriMo month as well. I typically struggle about committing to NaPoWriMo as I have a sort of love/h...

National Poetry Month perfect time to rhyme Classic artists like Silverstein, Carroll ideal antidotes for late-semester stress By Publis...

Poetry / Around and about: Kelli Russell Agodon leads discussion on the topic "What constitutes a good poem?" in a Field'...

Crazy Time!  Crank out those poems. One-A-Day! Yes, I'm doing the poem-a-day challenge again this year. I'm still debating if I wi...

I've completed my poem for day four - the prompt was to write about an animal.  For some reason I was not enamored with this prompt, but...

The prompt was:  The Problem with (fill in blank) The Problem with Poetry It wants to be. Just be— that’s all. To exist ...

I'm participating in the poem- a- day challenge for the month of April. I've not decided if I will post them here, but at this time ...

My Second Annual Poetry Month broadside is still available.... email me with name and address to receive a copy.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Dirda who writes for the Washington Post on books, literature and the likes, talks about stay...

My second annual limited poetry broadside has arrived today and is available (as mentioned earlier) as long as they last. To request one, e...

Day two of National Poetry Month / NaPoWriMo ~ thought I'd share a couple of good resources I've seen from blogs I read. First off,...

It's here! Now you have a legitimate reason to torture your friends and family with poetry for a whole month. A couple of housekeeping ...

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau

Yes, I realize most of us who are poetry aficionados have a circle of friends and family who simply do not share the same sensual pleasures ...