Michael Allyn Wells

One of the things that has impressed me about this weeks Wednesday Poet has been the gift of her art to others; teaching children, young pe...

No matter where you live in U.S. there is a House seat up for election and in many states there are important Senate races as well as other ...

"A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof." ~ Rene Char I cannot pretend to speak for this poet, but I find a commonalit...

Sent off three more submissions yesterday. I am hoping this gets way more habit forming during the next year. The early afternoon is sweetly...

Poet Nikki Giovanni toned it down a bit in her first public appearance since the ruckus she caused on October 14th at the dedication of Fou...

The Wednesday Poet Series was due for a female poet this week. I do hope the female readers of Stick Poet will indulge me while I take the...

If my blogger dashboard is correct (and it may not be, it was frozen on the same number for a while) this is my 1200th post to Stick Poet. A...

Independent Online Edition > Features Sharon Olds: Blood, sweat and fears - The American poet Sharon Olds has won international acclaim f...

deseretnews.com Poet laureate hopes for bit of daily verse As Utah's new poet laureate, Katharine Coles hopes to make poetry a part of e...

"I wonder about all the roads not taken and I am moved to quote Frost... but I won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poet...

Another Item I suripticiously Extracted from Quotidian Light Your Ideal Pet is a Cat You're both aloof, introverted, and moody.And your...

A Pittsburgh poets organization will hold a program of poetry and music to raise funds for relief efforts in Darfur, western Sudan, at 7:30 ...

After a week of exposure, I was pleased to see that Rogue PR has had 965 views in the first week since publication. Yeah! I have enjoyed...

I am taking a break from the Wednesday Poet series while I work on becoming more acquainted with a couple of poets I wish to feature here. ...

Laurel Snyder's post of October 18th caught my attention. She said she has been busy, among other things thinking about people who hav...

The public clamoring for community poet laureates is on the rise. Almost at an unbelievable clip. Kind of like the Dow Jones average climbin...

One headline: Staying the course no more - Bush changes policy in wake of pressure as election nears ( source ) and another, WHITE HOUSE WO...

HowManyOfMe.com There are: 2,892 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

The Poetry Exercise's Logical Conclusion: New Book of Poems Consists of Exercises for Readers to Write Poems - PR.com Blue lion books be...

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Robert Bly is an acclaimed American poet. He is also still very much alive. When we from time to time learn the Nachlass of some poet or w...

Vancouver wants own poet laureate like several other Canadian cities (Toronto, Montreal, Victoria and Saskatoon) . This seems to be a growi...

I'm very pleased with the initial traffic on Rogue Poetry Review . On the day the first issue went up (Tuesday) 324 hits. Yesterday anot...

The Wednesday Poet Series will not appear here today. Instead, I encourage you go to the inaugural edition of Rogue Poetry Review and read...

The first Issue is up... I hope everyone will check it out . There are some outstanding poems in this issue. Michael A. Wells - Editor tag...

Dylan Thomas is widely considered one of the greatest 20th Century poets writing in English. The Welsh poet certainly made a mark in the li...

Podcast - That One Great Poem - What Would It Be Like?

On the heels of my Wednesday Poet feature on Peter Conners comes this item: Poetry: " A Urinal I Invite You To Hang On Your Wall.&qu...

The announcement for the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is out and Turkey's Orhan Pamuk has won for works bridging the east...

The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Verse Academics Dominate Poetry Finalists for National Book Awards Four poets with academic ties are finalis...

President Bush Continues in a State of Denial tags: Bush denial Iraq election

Johns Hopkins researchers now estimate that more than a half-million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion and its bloody af...

This week's poet is Peter Conners. He is both a poet and fiction writer who's work has been featured in Mississippi Review, Salt Hi...

A few poets I have read over the past week.... Susan Hutton in October Poetry Magazine Laura Kasischke in October Poetry Magazine* John Ashb...

Stick Poet's regular Wednesday Poet Series will not appear today - but will resume next Wednesday. Thank You for stopping by... ~ Michael

We lost one of our cats yesterday. OJ was 17 years old. He had an Iconic status within our home. By far the senior cat - a wise old sage. F...

Lisa Zaran Richard Wilbur Eileen Tabios Fenny Sterenborg Robert Pinsky Sharon Olds Naomi Shihab Nye Raymond A. Foss John Ashbery Jorie Graha...

I've been focusing on two things. One, pulling together the first issue of Rogue Poetry Review. This is going well and I originally had ...

US backs 'torture' methods to question terror suspects Bob Woodward says Bush "increasingly removed from reality" Bush Dis...

Wednesday, I received rejection letters on two submissions... but they are on material that I am very pleased with and will go right back ou...

This week, the Wednesday poet is one I have greatly admired. Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco. She graduated from Stanford University...

"The ideal reader is someone who reads with a dictionary and a pencil," he said. "You create a dialogue, a visible one, betwe...

Sunday was National Punctuation Day and I missed it, which I suppose is not quite the same as missing a period.

The following is as near an accurate list of poets I have read this past week as I can recall. Harold Penter Stanley Kuntz Donald Hall John ...

The Problem Of Accessibility "In fact, I have always firmly believed that poetry is about communicating an experience through art. The...

Another perspective on the Best American Poetry story that is going around. The commentary by Collin Kelley . The recent serialization in T...

One of the great things about poets is they seem to come in all sizes and shapes. Well, not really... er, yes really but that is not litera...

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