Michael Allyn Wells

Dear Reader & Friends: It's been two weeks, a lot of diet pop and one Mom's Demand Change rally and a GOP Presidential Debate ...

Dear Reader: It's been three weeks, one 4 day weekend, numerous days of rain (lost count), one submission packet,  and 4 days of int...

We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join u...

The day is starting out here cold with an overcast sky, a clear reminder that it's fall. This Thanksgiving morning I just wanted to ...

Dear Reader: I suppose I am no different than most of you right now, in that I have been inundated with thoughts about the terrorists ...

Dear Reader: It's been so long since my last Confession Tuesday that I can't begin to give you a time period. Let's just say t...

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

New  book arrived by mail yesterday. Sometime over the past  week or so I discovered poet whose work on initial read  I enjoyed. I honestl...

is it normal this mindset the demonstrative fashion flashy I thought it punitive I thought it course grade sandpaper I thought the ...

What do you say after something like this?  What can you say that has not been said before? Another campus/school shooting with 9 victim...

Dear Reader: So, it's been one new pair of eyeglasses, five new books, one trip out of town and a week since my last confession. I...

Yesterday mail was exciting. Four books arrived. Pictured to the left is The (hefty) Daily Poet Companion Journal. Yes, I am committing to...

Dear Reader: It has been untold weeks since my last confession.  I truly have been a fallen-away blog confessor, but I'm back. ...

Magpie 284 writing prompt Here, we've come to fullness.   We come to the clay shaped  by the hands of God.       To folds...

Starting this afternoon I am dog sitting for a family member and starting a Labor Day Weekend Mini Writing Retreat. I have reading materi...

If you are looking for poets to read this summer I offer you my 2015 Poets Crush List.  These are poets who I presently cannot get enough ...

Madison has a new home with us. He is a a long haired Dachshund that is approximately 2 months old. He is a rescue dog that we adopted. ...

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I...

Dear Reader: I realize it's Wednesday but let's just pretend for a moment it's Tuesday. I'm not asking you to to relive ...

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugl...

How long has it been since your actually wrote someone in long hand or for that matter received such a letter yourself?  I'm talking a...

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.  ~ John Doone

Dear Reader: It has been one week and one more wedding anniversary since my last confession. It's actually been a lot of things.......

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold I pressed my ...

Dear Reader: I humbly come to you on Wednesday as opposed to Tuesday. But actually I believe it’s been two weeks since my last confessi...

I am aware that there are parts of this country desperately in need of rain. Honestly, we've had more that our share here and I'd lo...

While I was at AWP15 in April, it was my intent to pick up a book or two of Sandra Beasley's.  As it would happen, her books were sold o...

I started this weekend Friday night dog sitting for my son. This lent itself well to getting some reading and writing done however Saturday ...

Dear Reader: It’s been a week since my last confession. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner has nothing on us. Yes, I confess the rain...

During this past week Kelli Russell Agodon got a lot of traction with an article she wrote that appeared in Medium. The piece was titled, S...

"I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so." - Elizabeth Bishop

Dear Reader: It has been two weeks since my last Confession. One week in which I fought the intermittent rains to get both front and bac...

"The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing." ~Elizabeth Bishop This week I drew Elizabeth ...

In this latest collection of poetry, Mary Biddinger longingly delves on that shrinking view through the rear view mirror.  A Sunny Plac...

No one knows the burden I carry,/this being born with a Ouija Board in my chest, this ability/to read wreckage like an alphabet. You just se...

Dear Reader: It has been one motherfucking rainy week since my last confession. Surprisingly the sky was beautiful today and no rain to ...

Dear Reader: It's been a week since my last confession. As we get older weeks come and go. It's a fact. Well, it always has be...

April has come and gone. Hopefully, you were nourished by a daily supply of poetry.  But poetry is not just for April. I've drawn na...

What is more fun than getting a bill in the mail? Well, a new poetry book for one thing... At AWP I attended a reading by Sandra Beasley...