At every day poets

My poem, Late Night Considerations, is the featured piece at Every Day Poets today.

It’s my fourth appearance and it has to do with a subject near to my heart and mind.

LNC considers ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. And don’t tell me you’ve never lay in bed at night, wide awake, heart skiddering, thinking, “What is that noise in the closet?”

If you would like to check it out, it’s here.

A bottleful of silly

The folks at Every Day Poets have accepted another of my poems, Witches' Brew. It's an homage to Shakespeare, my take on the infamous witches' chant from MacBeth. You remember: Round about the cauldron go; in the poisoned entrails throw.

Oonah, Nicholas and Constance, the EFP editing staff, said they thought Witches' Brew was amusing and playful. I like to think that Will would have approved. As a fillip, I structured the poem so that in print, its outline is that of a stoppered bottle.

I'll post a link when it's published.

At Every Day Poets

If you can, stop in at Every Day Poets. My poem, Murphy's Flaw, is featured today; it tells the tale of Obadiah Murphy, a competitive drinker of gargantuan appetites and capacity. I think it's pretty funny, but then I wrote it.

And I will apologize now to those of you who don't care for meter and rhyme. Stop back another day; the site offers great poetry for every taste.

Every Day Poets

Every Day Poets, the on-line sister publication to Every Day Fiction, launches tomorrow morning.

According to Oonah V. Joslin, managing editor of Every Day Poets, she and her fellow editors, Constance Brewer and Nick Ozment, have "tried to offer a contrast of style and content, day to day."

"What the poems have in common is that they are all well crafted; words charged with the full power of their meaning," she said. "As they are presented one by one, you can savour their intensity, wit, beauty and energy."

A couple of my favorite writers have poems to present in this first issue.

Jonathan Pinnock's School Uniform will be available to slip into on November 3; I have hopes that Jonathan's poetry is as droll as his fiction. He blogs at Jonathan Pinnock's Write Stuff.

And Erin M. Kinch, who rocked Every Day Fiction on October 25 with A Million Faces, will offer Inspiration on November 22. Erin's dynamite blog is at Living the Fictional Dream.

I have a poem in the first issue, too. Murphy's Flaw is epic poetry that presents the adventures of one Obadiah Murphy, a competitive drinker of prodigious appetites and capacity. Murphy will lift a glass on Monday, November 10.

Here's a link to the entire month's line-up. Every Day Poets November Table of Contents. Stop by every morning, why don't you?