Poet Hound

Well everyone, Saturdays are usually full, and today is. I'm taking a brief moment to get personal. I've been writing poems since ...

In poetry there are times where you may want to repeat certain words or lines to emphasize the importance of a subject or idea. For example...

Hello and good morning. I have a few precious minutes and wanted to share with you at least one place that is open to receiving poems. Lite...

Sorry I had nothing for Tuesday, my internet went dead, and I have no idea why. However, it's working today and onward with the program...

Poets and Writers is a magazine which helps writers and avid readers find publishing venues, learn the trends, and features interviews with...

Lola Haskins has produced several books of poetry and I have recently picked one up after rummaging the poetry shelves of my local book-stor...

To those of you who read this blog, I'd like to let you in on how I figure out what to place in the blog each day. Think of Poet Hound ...

Yes, sonnets may seem archaic, tired, old, and so on... However, Shakespearean sonnets are pretty much what people think of when it comes t...

The small press is a godsend to many poets and poetry lovers. Without them we wouldn't have nearly the range of poems that we see on bo...

Kilbourn Hole Making love to sand sifting away in dreams, the sweaty breath of salt baking, left over from oceans long since receded. Sweat ...

For those of you brave enough to share your love of poetry whether it be reading or writing then poetry groups may be just the thing for you...

The Mother-Of-All-Resources is poetrysociety.org when it comes to listing of journals, publishers, literary organizations, and independent ...

When I first delved into serious poetry reading, exploring book-stores and web-sites I kept seeing the word "chapbook" having no c...

Coffee at the Gas Station Every morning they gather like crows on abandoned picnics: Old men at the gas station on highway 19, Old Town, all...

Hello, sorry about the technical difficulties that resulted in "Musings" being published twice! Today we are talking about very ba...