Michael Allyn Wells

September 2nd was the 9th anniversary of Stickpoet Super Hero.  Nine years of blogging at this site and I somehow missed the anniversary.  T...

What better way to start the weekend then to come home and find something poetry related in the mail. On the basis of a blog post recommen...

 Eleven hours and 7,000 dominoes later

Before I retire for the night I feel compelled to say a few words about the number thirty-eight. Poets normally deal with words but at ...

Hail to the Chief!  President's Day off~ I've written, hobbled around on a sore knee, alternated heat and ice on it, and otherwise...

A couple of  things I've read at other sites that I though were noteworthy. Lessons from Pre-Schoolers   a delightful commentary on le...

First - Credit to Suzanne Frischkorn who posted this - which is where I originally found it. I love Handel's Messiah and in particula...

Outfielder Cody Ross Homers in the game tonight.  The Giants win the series on the Road in Atlanta.

The San Francisco Giants win the NL Western Division Championship! There is "Life in Postseason!"

Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima. In all these years since the event tragically killing some 145,000 ...

I know it's Spring Traning and not regular season, but my San Francisco Giants are 7-1 with their 5 to 1 win over the Cubs. Kudos to Pab...

Last night we went out to eat and then to the Elton John - Billy Joel concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Talk about an awesome con...

This is entirely too good not to comment on. The BBC reports a competition is underway to find poetry which will feature in the stalls of p...

Reports of chicken wing shortages this weekend baseless ( story) Wings, which in my view are the best part of the chicken are evidentl...

  Here's a positive story for the spaceship earth~! updated 9:50 a.m. CT, Fri., Dec. 26, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco...

  These three days have been long ones. I've been so anxious for the holiday to start because I truly need a break. But enough of that...

As a Capricorn, I like to think of myself as an earthy sort of person. It is true I like a safety net, the secure feeling. Still, I do like ...

Sorry, I can't help it. Sometime overnight the 40,000 th unique visitor was registered in our stats at Stickpoet Super Hero! Kudos to...

For yet a third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has rebuked the Bush Administration on it's handling of the detainees at Guantanamo. It st...

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...