Copy Writing is a different story, but both must begin with a promise to fill readers’ needs: new gadgets,  clothes, information,  ideas, or  laughs and sweet tears. Poets must be…

I have a few addictions: soy vanilla ice cream, the sacrilege of watered-down wine, and ping pong.  All three serve me well enough to continue with them even though ping…

Hey dear old friends and new ones, give me a few minutes and your thoughts about social class. Here’s an example from my childhood that may spark one from yours.…

What is the difference between pornography and erotica? Intimacy. When you read a really good book, you are off into another world. An intimate world.  Fiction provides a degree of…

PRACTICES AND THEORIES ON WRITING POETRY Poetry and mathematics have much in common. They both traverse the abstraction ladder, up and down. Picture a long ladder leaning against a house,…

MORE ON GENREHey, my good friends, Evelyn Cole here wanting to shake you up, kick you off all those formula books you may have been reading. Back when I thought…

CALL ME MARY . . .She says to each new student, for Mary is a friendly and super successful high school teacher. I’m sorry if I disillusioned you, dear friends.…