Category Archives: family

News (and eventually, photos) about my and Bill’s kids and grandkids.

Summer Issue of Persimmon Tree journal just posted ;)!

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

I’m so happy to announce that the summer issue of Persimmon Tree just got posted, with my poem among the ten selected for the Northeastern States Poetry Contest winners. In the link below, please scroll down to find my poem, … Continue reading →

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Haibun featured at Jama Rattigan’s *Alphabet Soup* blog :)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

I woke to this morning’s blessing, a poem of mine posted so beautifully by the editor it takes my breath away. Her words honor me, and the photographs she found to accompany the piece are stunning. I sent the photo … Continue reading →

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Another Poem Posted This Morning

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

I’m blessed to have another poem of mine appearing on-line. This morning, Jama Rattigan is featuring a poem of mine, “Your Grandmother’s Whisk”. I wrote it last February in response to a wonderful writing prompt by my poet friend Diane … Continue reading →

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Posting new photo, taken today 10/6/12

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

I’ve been exploring the bells and whistles of my new little point-and-shoot Nikon camera. Then recently I learned how to upload photos onto the web (like onto FB or in email to friends). I’m not quite sure how to make … Continue reading →

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Two Haibun, an Essay, and an Interview Published in “Notes from the Gean”

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

This week,  two of my haibun, the reprint of an essay about haibun published in Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry  (Dos Gatos Press, 2011), and an interview including a number of poems from several of my books–including one from … Continue reading →

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Another Poem on “Your Daily Poem” site

Posted on August 9, 2011 by

I was away in Seattle, attending the 2011 Haiku North America conference (will post about that wonderful even soon), when this poem appeared August 5th on Your Daily Poem. I wrote it while at VCCA last January. I was missing … Continue reading →

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Bill Higginson’s haiku to be on the EPN

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Carlos Colon kindly requested permission to feature five of  Bill’s poems on the Shreve Memorial Library’s Electronic Poetry Network. They will be featured this coming week, beginning tomorrow, and running all day (or all weekend) long on an electronic message … Continue reading →

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Haibun posted at haijinx

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

Just a quick note to say that my haibun, “Against the Cold,” has been posted in the December issue of haijinx. You can see it here: http://www.haijinx.org/III-1/haibun/index.html As a postscript to my just-previous entry, I am recovering well from my … Continue reading →

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Several Recent Events

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

I am really behind in posting news of several wonderful recent events, and will want to come back to them individually in the future, giving them their due, complete with photos. However, for now: First, October 7th-10th, I had a … Continue reading →

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“Recycling Starlight” just published!

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

I’m happy to announce that my cycle of poems written during the eighteen months after Bill’s death, Recycling Starlight, is now in print from Ce Rosenow’s Mountains and Rivers Press. It has been published in a limited edition chapbook, beautifully … Continue reading →

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