Michael Allyn Wells

Ken Waldman like most of us was taken by surprise when Donald Trump won the electoral votes necessary to secure his election as president...

Chinese Poet Li Bifeng Sentenced to 12 Years in Jail : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation  Sadly the Chinese record ...

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.    ~  Amiri Baraka

Interview with Amy Leigh Davis  - Kansas City area poet & author of   The Alter Ego of the Universe, Finishing Line Press, 2011 ...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  ~T.S. Eliot Technorati Tags: T.S. Eliot , risk , quote

  I'm excitedly awaiting the KC visit of Aimee who will read from her book At the Drive-In Volcano.  She's part of a ethnic poetry...

When President-elect Obama is sworn into office the nation will hear from a poet that few of us have even heard of. Elizabeth Alexander'...

I've been a little lax in blogging of late, so I will try and catch up a bit tonight .  It's been a long week and I am so glad that ...

The arts have truly had an Ambassador in Dana Gioia who has served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. But Da...

I wonder how many know of Mahmoud Darwish ? He was not a poet I was familiar with until his recent death hit the news. Of course there are p...

gotBREAST? is a feature-length documentary exploring how women feel about their breasts. The documentary includes a diverse cross section o...

'I've tried to make sense of my life ... make a small embodiment of ordinary life, from a daughter's, wife's, mother's p...

"Three cheers for a poet who handles words with the intent joy of a little kid playing with blocks." ~ X.J. Kennedy

"Poets are jails. Works are the convects who escape." ~ Cocteau, diary

Wendy Cope is not amused to find her work spread about the Internet... The British poet is a strict advocate of copyright protection. [ sto...

Saw this on Ivy's blog .... cool huh? Poetry Library Quote for today.... I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ~ T.S. Eliot

Got a jump on the extended holiday weekend when I we shut down about three. I finished the project I was into and was gone by 3:20 and surpr...

My new homepage site can be found at michaelawells.com (note you must use the middle initial "a")

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." ~ William Butler Yeat...

Oh my, here's what happens when a watchdog gets a little too close for comfort when investigating a spy agency. ~0~ An Oscar an Emmy a...