: About Me

Writer, poet, activist, volunteer - when not tilting at windmills, I enjoy reading my poetry aloud at both The Stroll of Poets (weekly at the Upper Crust) and at the Kasbar with the Raving Poets, and recently at a small teahouse, Steeps. Am the Edmonton coordinator for the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, an exciting one-time project which involves helping organize volunteers and fundraising to raise awareness for the March. Proudest writing accomplishemt to date is having two of my poems archived on poetsagainstwar.ca. I 've also been included in a number of anthologies, as well as being published at winningwriters.com and on the British 'zine, melisma. My volunteer work leans heavily toward Social Justice and I am on a committee to that end with the Unitarians Universalists here, plus with Project Ploughshares. I'm also on the board for the Stroll of Poets presently. In my other life, I am married to the love of my life and we have two grown married daughters and are awaiting the birth of our first grandson, Jack, due momentarily. I write because I must.

My passion is ...

writing and saving the world

I know too much about ...

the mental health industry

My parents always told me ...

treat people the way you'd like to be treated

My childhood ambition ...

to be a racecar driver or a nurse

My favorite memory ...

so far? my honeymoon

Why I write ...

I have to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

poetry,fiction,non-fiction;Castle,Bones,Queer as Folk; Leonard Cohen

My first job ...

baby-sitting

My best moment ...

hasn't happened yet

My inspiration ...

so many things...

Arts & Humanities > Thoughts on Writing Which form of writing is more difficult: Poetry or prose?

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“There is no money in poetry but then there is no poetry in money either,” Robert Graves, English poet 1895-1985. Depending on the day, most writers, the great ones in any case, could likely line up on either side of this debate. That is to say, one day they would consider prose the more difficult type of writing and the next, it would be poetry – it all depends – on where your head is, and where your heart lies. Academic arguments aside, there is very little prose that stays forever in the mind and is quoted down through the ages. Not so with poetry – even th...

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