Michael Allyn Wells

I want to make note of a video my daughter Meghan passed along to me and some of you may well have seen it, but for those who haven't i...

I've not really had any experience with collaborative poetry in the context of shared writing. I always consider poetry to generally be ...

I made a Quick Trip run this morning for a diet coke.  I noticed all over the walk and even on top of the car all these little fragments tha...

March 12 - [noted part of a line from a Boston Legal episode that I have a feeling will find its way into a poem at some later date] "...

  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...

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.  ~ Eli Khamaroy Someone asked me if this was a good th...

I feel there is a poem here. Oh, I forgot Shakespeare already did. May your day safe and joyous!

So Saturday has arrived. Big sigh. Even though is was a short work week for me it seemed long. Since I've been back, I've receive...

This is a great resource for creating a file management system for your working drafts. Not only is it an excellent organizational tool, bu...

Mood: exhausted It's been a quiet evening and we stayed in, ate fried ravioli and played baseball on Playstation . Three games. I too...

My pillow is a bed for tender thoughts . Speaking of which, it's way past my bed time. Technorati Tags: Journal bits

Technorati Tags: draft Theory He’s a maniacal man of means with no notion for nurturing. Neither can he be summed up so easily as ...

  Spent some time yesterday at the Virginia Piper Writer House on the ASU Campus. What a tranquil setting. The evening we were back on cam...

After an uneventful flight last night (the best kind) I arrived in Phoenix and was met by my daughter Meghan, with dog in tow. Said dog has ...

  On the ground at KCI - not long till take off. The day has been a busy one in spite of being away from the office.  I'm told our fli...

The last minute collection of the various necessitates for my trip are underway and then I'm off.  Excited about seeing my two daughter...

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark Spring Training games starte...

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ~Emily Dickinson   Technorati Tags: Emily Dickinson , living , ...

David Orr writing in the Feb 22 N.Y. Times piece titled "The Great(ness) Game" asks what we do when John Ashbery and his genera...

Subliminal Mutterings [I've missed several weeks of this, sigh.  So spank me!] You say.... I think: Be mine :: valentine Ecstat...

a few random items from my journal this week... Feb 14 - At times like this Alice will sit at a small table/pouring Earl Grey as we sip fr...

A poet friend the other day was giving me feedback on one of my poetry drafts and in response to something I had written said, "You sho...

Instead of writing tonight I watched three rerun episodes of Boston Legal. Does that make me a bad poet? I'm being rhetorical here, a re...

Annie Finch has authored four books of poetry , Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses. S...

I've been spending a lot of time writing this weekend and as words have flown in and out of my my head I've been naming them good ...

I got an early start on Valentines day by taking my wife to the Melting Pot on Thursday evening. She hates to fight the crowds so we beat t...

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...

My new monitor for work has arrived. This is good because I was starting to feel a little gothic working in the dark so I could faintly see ...

C.D. Wright Reading March 10 7:00 PM UMKC Person Auditorium - be there! C.D. Wright Symposium March 11 7:00PM KC Public Library / Central ...

Listening to: Bruce Springsteen - Last to Die Mood: dragging Feb 2 - My computer monitor at work came on completely today at your. Yeah...

  Congratulations are in order for Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg of Lawrence, Kansas. Caryn was selected to serve as the new Kansas State Poet La...

[click on image to view larger] This was produced on Wordie . I found it via Christine Klocek-Lim's site. I put four of my poems select...

If you were planning to attend the Azar Nafisi event at the Plaza Library tomorrow night, it has been postponed.  There should be informatio...

Listening to Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 E Major Mood: Awake I'm up and ready for the day. I've made an unsuccessful trip to Target ...

  Listening to: Chiquitia by ABBA I was thinking today about how much time I spend in reaction rather than action. In some respects I th...

Technorati Tags: journal bits you water the lawn with thought so fertile they spring up on contact if nakedness were a genre / ...

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

The Kansas City Public Library welcomes international bestselling author Azar Nafisi for a presentation based on her new book Things I...

Listening to: Under Attack by ABBA Lots of writing this weekend. Also just finished up some work I brought home from the office. I'...

On Tuesday I joined a host of others from my office and a couple of individuals from other departments in our conference room where all eyes...

I've taken the time off of work today to work on poetry submissions. Yeah!  (I'm pretending there are cheers in the background). I...

As difficult as it is for me to think ahead to 2010 I suppose when planning for an event with a $1.3 million price tag it's not all that...

I intended to post this earlier, but I've just been swamped. This was a gift from my wife for my birthday last Saturday. It's a Li...

The Main Street Rag Poetry Showcase, Sun. 1/18, 7p, The Writers Place -  3607 Pennsylvania Kansas City, MO        View Map Join Mai...

A happy birthday card from the Community Blood Center A dream in which the part of the dreamer is played by Harrison Ford Technora...

  The procrastination is over.  I've readied my submission to an annual review that I am especially fond of.  This will be my third ye...

Listening to Savage Garden / Crash and Burn..... It was cruel and unusual punishment working yesterday but this too has past.  I need t...

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this rech...

  Besides getting up this morning and writing, I went this afternoon to the Writers Place for the 4th Annual Writers Place - New Years Day ...