Your weekly companion for those seeking meaning in the ordinary beauty of our lives. Through poetry and stories, I hope to write in a way that reflects what connects us all.
I am a published poet who has won and been runner-up in poetry contests. For years I took a break, but then I found another way of being a poet: on Substack. Here I post poems as and when. Subscribe for free / Freedom is poetry.
Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. I got interrupted, but I didn't give up. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.
Writer, Poet, Former Indie Bookstore Owner (yay for indies), water spirit, breast cancer survivor. Winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, Midwest Book Awards Finalist
Written Tales Magazine, bringing literature back to the forefront through poetry, short story, and prose. We're a magazine that helps writers become better writers and a place for readers to enjoy creative writing at its finest.
Through my stories, poetry, and art, I explore the borderlands that lay between the human and more-than-human worlds, and the ways they overlap and mirror each other.
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.
Once upon a time, I discovered I had many voices in my head and I needed a place to put them—then Substack came along.
"To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy." —Stéphane Mallarmé
Splash around in our red rubber poetry boots and yellow slickers and see what poems might rise to the surface. Rev up your writing practice. Explore what poetry can do and write with abandon! Learn and do! Your online workshop is here!