Michael Allyn Wells

Ivy talks about the application process for a residency at the The MacDowell Colony - worth reading for those interested in such an experi...

Open Mic at Writers Place last night.... Scot Isom was the featured reader. Scot was great. I've never seen Scot as into it as he was ...

Interesting experiences this weekend at the writing workshop. Some good. Some not. I did experience converting and existing work to a play f...

Stick Poet will likely be silent the rest of today, tomorrow and Sunday as I am off to a writing workshop in Iowa. I suppose there is an out...

Yes, all 504 pages of it! Wait... actually it is a never ending book . I'm referring to I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved by Eileen ...

Lois Ames, Friend and Confidant of Anne Sexton to Host a Wilderness House Literary Lunch Ames is a poet, biographer and psychotherapist ...

I have been reading some of Diane Ackerman's work from her book Origami Bridges. Diane has captured a lot of very strong images and intr...

I have successfully pulled together my first chapbook manuscript. I worked extensively on pulling together material yesterday from my archiv...

Under The Tellingtree - Anthology of Verse and Voice Calandar of Remaining Book Readings & Signings scheduled locally ( Kansas City Area...

Rejection strikes again! Friday I got a rejection paper wad from a Journal that shall remain nameless. When I say paper wad, this was a stri...

Some serious ad money paid for a blog - $25,000 a month... that would trump a lot of writing grants. Yes, for what it is worth, it is true....

InCom Corp, the Sutter, California based technology company that co-oped with Earnie Graham and the Brittan Elementary School in Sutter has ...

I see Denise Duhamel has a new book out. I am anxious to read it. Problem is I have an ever growing list of poetry books to read and presum...

Sunday was a mixed bag of goods. A number of us gathered at a private launch party for Under the TellingTree: An Anthology of Voice and Vers...

Herald.com 02/13/2005 'How do I love thee?' With lovely poems, of course I was trying to think what I could blog about that fit the ...

Yesterday I was able to pick up a number of poetry books at a discount store going out of business. They were dirt cheap! I think I got like...

Sent out a packet of six submissions last night. It always feels good when I have just sent work out. Suppose it is like completing a circle...

This information from Boston Harold. com The InCom Corp. is a company co-founded by the parent of a former Brittan School student and ...

ABC News: Parents Protest Student Computer ID Tags Gee, this is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start. Jan. 18th, B...

Wednesday is here.... Just finished working on Tiananmen Mother during my lunch hour. I have a new draft that I will try out tonight at a r...

I was back at it yesterday. Hammering away at this poem that has been in the making now for over a week. Almost to my amazement, I seemed to...

I have spent hours today on a poem that I started a week ago and it is just past 9pm and I'm calling it quits on this one for tonight. I...

Are you aware the official "Stick Poet Writing Journal" is available at the Stick Poet Shop? This and many other Stick ...

There is a collision that has occurred and I am attempting to identify the casualties. I don’t see a lot of blood… yet. Early indicatio...

Looking for a place to get away to and write? Someplace with a touch of writing history? A site that inspired works of a poet laureate? Got ...

Yesterday I stumbled along working on two poems. By evening I had my fill of both. Put them away, my mind away.... Today is another day. One...

Robert Stewart , editor of New Letters introduced Marilyn Kallet Thursday night as a writer who's poems "wake you up" a qual...

I'm going to hear Marilyn Kallet tonight at Rockhurst College. I'm pretty excited about it. There was a really nice piece in the Ka...

Today, I read an essay by David Groff on The Peril of the Poetry Reading . He tackles the issue of the value of such readings to poetry itse...

Jilly is at No Tell Motel this week! Well, not here personally - but her poems. Go check !

I'm sure there must be a poem lurking in that immigration guy... hee he.

How and what others do to elicit the optimum success with writing always interests me. I suppose we all probably have a bit of that child qu...

MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year : "- Is the midwinter weather wearing you down? Are you sinking in debt after the holidays...

Chill would have frozen the air were it still and not the haughty bitch that blasts with repeated thrashing against all things vertical. ...

January is moving along slick as canola. It's the 21st already and I'm thinking what's happening? I have written several new ...

James at Love During Wartime quotes the philosopher Emile Chartier, "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one...

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have mind...

Nothing! Now that I have my copy. Yesterday, I got my copy of what's wrong by ivy alvarez . what's wrong is a small chapbook -...

Last night, eight people in love with poetry met to organize a new chapter of the Missouri Poetry Society in the greater Kansas City area. ...

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. I had BBQ Ribs last night in celebration. My Son called. That was cool. Tonight I'm me...

Today is my birthday... a year closer to perfection ! I got a copy of Ariel Restored, a Burkowski book, another book on Plath and a coupl...

My only planned post today I made over on my other blog site: Against The Flow where I wrote on the poetry of "place". It is in ...

Few things happening on other poetry blogs.... Check out the TSUNAMI RELIEF information on Eileen's blog. what's wrong is ...

Drum-roll please... Stickpoet is about to roll over the historic 10,000 hits mark- likely sometime tonight. An insignificant bit of trivia t...

Words Unwrapped

Gloria Vando - joined by her mother and daughter - rounded out three generations of talent at The Writers Place on New Years day for t...

Kicking off the New Year at The Writers Place - I was there from 1:00p.m. till 7:45p.m. to participate in their New Years Day readings. Som...