Writing while parenting: essays

The Right Frame

What Writing Feels Like

Poets vs. Writers

Writing Tips

My First Book Interviews my Second Book

Brain Storms

Dancing like Superb Birds of Paradise

Zen and the Art of Poetry

Poetry Repair Kits

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Looking

The Art of Putting Things Together

Narrative's Building Blocks

The Image and its Meaning

My Two-Year-Old, The Great Arsenic Lobster

Spiraling Thoughts

Learning to Mine Those Every Day Moments

How to Teach Poetry Like a Boss

On Spark Notes

Trashy Lit

Writing Practice

Playing with Matches

The Education of a Poet

Everything I know about Literature I learned from my Daughters

In Brief

What I've Learned About Writing from Cartoons

Beginnings, Middles and Middles

On Winning and Losing

Unleashing Your Creative Flow

Passports to Miracles and Wonder

Sometimes When We Pick our Poems up

A Loose Truth

The Art of Overhearing

How Cleaning the Fridge is Like Revising a Poem

Poetry and Masks

Passage Analysis

Writing Routines and Mindfulness

Opposable Stubs

Portraits of a Young Artist

Workshops and Mountaintops

Windows and Mirrors

Anatomy of a Line

Rejection Notices

Labor of Love

Child's Play

The Shape of a Story

Yet Another Reason not to Marry a Poet

The Power of Disruption

The Trouble with Transitions

Minor Moves, Major Impacts

The Secret to a Great Arc

In Praise of the Colon

How to Deal with Setbacks in the Creative Process

Why Finding the Right Image can be so Challenging

What to Expect when you're Expectorating

Dissecting the Frog

How Writing Returns us to Wonder

Write What you Don't Know

On the Shoulder of Giants

The Secret of Gifted Writers

Mistress of the Middle

The Prose Poem as a Jew

How Words Mean

Poetry and Portals

What I've Learned about Literary Movements from my Daughters

Why Write when there are Thousands of People Out there not Reading Your Work

The Creative Process in Four Easy Steps

The Long and Arduous Journey of a Teeny-Weeny-Word

Why We Keep Journals

On the Many Meanings of Seal: An Origin Story

Lambie, Lambie, Burning Bright

Unhinged

A Sign of the Times

Same Place, Same Time

Explaining to my Daughters why I Wake up at Three Every Morning to Write.