Michael Allyn Wells

These are difficult times for us all.  Social Distancing, don't touch your face,  wash your hands while singing Happy Birthday (I'...

Thomas McGuane interviews  Tom Brokaw Growing up and being especially politically oriented I watched the evening news religiously. Peo...

This is so worth listening to. I've heard videos of Sarah Kay before - maybe two or three years ago but I ran across this TED Talk a...

Not writing daily?  Even 15 - 25  minutes devoted each day is a prescription for growth in your writing. Besides, it establishes writing a...

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blos...

Think of it as a Kick-Starter. The dynamic writing duo of Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano have created a tool that that can pri...

In between the screeches of outgoing missals there are explosions that shake you about. In between apartment buildings there is conc...

The ancient Greeks felt poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Poets sang the praises of athletic champ...

"A thousand naked fornicating couples with their moans and contortions are nothing compared to a good metaphor." ~ Charles Simic, ...

"Unless we read poetry, we"ll never have our hearts broken by language, which is an indispensable preliminary to a civilized life....

"Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 pe...

among my favorite: ·        poetry is the subliminal history of linguistic shape ·        poetry has four wheels, two wings and a pair ...

"Poetry is a different area if the brain [from prose] - much closer to music and mathematics." Margaret Atwood, BBC Radio 3, June ...

Great readings last night at the Crossroads Coffeehouse- 310 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, Mo 64108.  First time I've read in a while ...

Here I am, Saturday morning a black coffie on the right and a Diet Coke chaser awaiting on the left. It's been a week a...

"A poem that does its work must stand on the knife edge of yes and no. The last line of a poem should have both the yes and the no i...

Dear Reader:   I put the trash on the curb this morning and therefore I know I missed the first Confession Tuesday of the New Year.   As a ...

The bent elbow slows progression- force builds pushing the river around over and beyond   the banks like claws snag what is deli...

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. I...

I have only the faintest delineation of Thanksgiving 2011 and Christmas 2011.  This emanates largely because I've been ill during both. ...