On Writing
inkwell left open dried by evaporation letters lost to air This haiku is part of the October 2019 Haiku Challenge, which I completed in...
The Month of October
It is all her fault. A month of haiku and now My prose has left me. It is all her fault A month of haiku and now I write nothing else. I...
Untitled Haiku Series
From a haiku workshop led by Susan Lilley at the St. Leo University Sandhill Writers Conference I didn’t know there was a painting,...
Which Genre? Using Haiku instead of Prose and Discovering the Form a Subject Demands
It must have been in one of Peter Meinke’s books that I read that the author does not always determine the genre (or form) a subject...
Genres and Subject Matter
Sometimes the genre a writer wishes to use does not work for the subject. I was contacted by my childhood best friend’s younger brother...
Found Writing
One of the ever present difficulties of being a composition professor is not finding time to read or write for me. Unlike a graduate...
Duties
A writing workshop by Rickey Cotton, formerly of Southeastern University, resulted in the following poem. Confirmation. Check. Copies....
The List
A writing workshop by Rickey Cotton, formerly of Southeastern University, resulted in the following poem. 2 sets of flyers to post 50...