Distant Dwellings

50 years of teaching poetry and now I can’t stop looking at the world— in all its oddity—

A poet talks to his fellow poets--and occasionally to himself--about where poems come from. This project is dedicated to my 12th-grade English teacher and lifelong friend, Phyllis Levitt, may she rest in poetry.

deepening your practice of poetry, mindset, and wonder

Weekly posts on reading poetry, followed by weekly zoom discussions in Fridays at 4 (eastern time).

SWWIM Every Day publishes a poem a day by women writers (she/they).

How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.

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