Articles

Column: On Poetry

• “Retreat Turned Mom to Poet, Again,” The News Journal, May 13, 2012. “Words for House Story” for Mother’s Day, and the Cape Henlopen Poets & Writers Retreat.

• “A Never-ending To Do List,” The News Journal, April 29, 2012. “Theory of Incompletion” by Mark Doty, with 1001 things to do before you die. . .

• “Bees Reflect a Cautionary Tale of Isolation–and Loss,” The News Journal, April 15, 2012. “Take from my palm…” by Osip Mandelstam, and the plight of honeybees.

• “Poems Are Best Appreciated Out Loud,” The News Journal, April 8, 2012. The Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud  & Delaware’s 2012 state winner.

• “Laws of Bedtime and Beartime,” The News Journal, April 1, 2012. “Learning in the First Grade” by Jane Kenyon, and childhood poetics.

• “These Women Blazed Trails in a Sky Filled with Peril,” The News Journal, March 25, 2012. “Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser, & WWII women flyers.

• “9/11′s Endless Sorrow Replaced with Celebration?“ The News Journal, May 8, 2011
• “Chew On This: Poetry, like Food, to be Savored,” The News Journal, April 24, 2011
• “Some Places Are ‘Best Left Holy’,” The News Journal, April 17, 2011
• “Good Poems Convey the Truth, But Often Lie,” The News Journal, April 10, 2011
• “Strong Hearts: A Look at Mothers,” The News Journal, May 9, 2010
• “On the Delicate Nature of Parenting,” The News Journal, April 25, 2010
• “To Be New in the World: Verses for Children,” The News Journal, April 11, 2010
• “Unlocking Doors to the Present,”  The News Journal, April 4, 2010
• “A Fleda Brown Reunion,” The News Journal, October 18, 2009
• “Making Sense of Dark Times,” The News Journal, September 22, 2009
• “The healing power of words after a tragedy,” The News Journal, May 24, 2009.
• “From Portuguese bull jumpers to an ancient Minoan wall fresco,” The News Journal, April 26, 2009
• “There are so many places like home,” The News Journal, April19, 2009.
• “Carry a favorite poem close to your heart–it could be a life line,” The News Journal, April 12, 2009
• “Poet laureate ponders our lonesome roads, lives,” The News Journal, April 5, 2009.
• A chance to nurture creativity, alone or with fellow authors,” The News Journal, July 13, 2008

 Essays

• “Jane Bowles on Tangier: A Source of Endless Pleasure,” (Mirrors on the Maghrib: Critical Reflections on Paul and Jane Bowles, Caravan Books, 1996).
• “Ralph Cheever Dunning” and “Solita Solano,”(Dictionary of Literary Biography: Americans in Paris 1920-1939, Thompson Gale, 1980, 2005-2006).

Review

• “Elvis is Back: Fleda Brown’s The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives,” Delaware Today, November 2004