2024-03-18 12:28
Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I encourage you to visit the following website: TFL on Tape: Episode 60 – The Poetry Episode. There, you will find my po… Read More
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My author's page, which features mostly poetry and my musings about the greater meaning of life, the universe, and the journey we are all on together.
2024-01-16 20:58
Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I write to you today to relate the adventures of the past few days. I attended the 30th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaw… Read More
2023-10-09 14:33
Dearest Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I am most pleased to announce that my recently published poem, “Still Life with Roses,” was nominated for the 2… Read More
2023-06-26 12:13
Dearest Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my poem, “Cli-Fi,” in The Good Life Review’s ‘Mi… Read More
2023-06-07 10:51
Dearest Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I am delighted to announce that my poem, “Still Life with Roses,” was recently published in the Sunlight Press… Read More
2023-05-12 02:20
Dearest Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I am pleased to announce that I was once again long-listed for the international erbacce-prize.
You can find my… Read More
2023-02-13 13:02
Friends, family, fellow authors, and cherished readers,
I have fantastic news to share. It’s been a while since my first international publication – with the poem “Blizz… Read More
2022-09-16 11:19
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Friends, family, fellow authors, and cherished readers,
I have stellar news to share. I recently had the honor and privilege of writing a piece for StarTrek… Read More
2022-06-29 20:30
Dedicated to every young person who loves language, literature, wordcraft, and writing. I know you’re out there. I know you’re listening. If you’ve found your way to this a… Read More
2022-06-09 14:50
Dear Cherished Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Beloved Readers,
It occurred to me that it’s been a while since I’ve written an ‘Update from the Author.’
I… Read More
2022-03-15 19:24
Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
I am delighted to announce that Rebellious Magazine published my short essay, “The Case Against Fast Fashion: My Rebel W… Read More
2021-11-28 12:28
Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
The weather is growing colder, so perhaps it is apt that my poem, “Blizzard,” was recently published in Sylvia Mag… Read More
2021-08-05 12:39
Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,
So much has happened since my last update in Mid-May.
I am pleased to announce that I was accepted into CUNY Gradu… Read More
2021-05-26 16:06
Dear Friends, Family, Readers, and Fellow Authors,
I am writing to remind you of my reading tonight at 4 PM EST. I will be reading my award-winning essay “The Arithmetic o… Read More
2021-05-11 20:41
Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Beloved Readers,
I am pleased to announce that I won first prize in the Jerome L. Schulman Memorial Poetry Contest for my poem, “the plague… Read More
2021-05-06 20:17
Dearest Readers,
I recently joined Patreon. There, I will be posting exclusive content, including poems that are not yet available online or in print, story snippets, novel excerpts… Read More
2021-05-04 19:19
Dear Friends, Family, and Beloved Readers,
I have some exciting news to relate!
I recently won Second Prize in the Baruch COVID Diaries Essay Writing Contest 2021… Read More
2021-04-15 22:01
Dear Friends, Family, and Cherished Readers,
I hope this update finds you well.
I would like to share my latest publication. My poem, “Fireworks,” was written on the morn… Read More
2021-01-14 20:52
Hi, all. I hope 2021 is treating you well.
I am going to be reading alongside two other Queens poets on Yara Arts Group’s Facebook Live at 2 PM EST on Sunday, January 17th! Be there… Read More
2020-12-08 13:29
Dear friends, family, and cherished readers,
As 2020 winds to a close, I am pleased to bring you a final update for the year. You can see my April, July, and September updates by clicking… Read More
2020-09-20 12:00
Hello friends, family, fellow lovers of language, and assorted followers of this blog,
I hope this update finds you in good health and in good spirits.
I have lots of good news to sh… Read More
2020-08-18 12:42
Welcome to this edition of Writing Prompt of the Week, which is a bit of a misnomer in that the posts are not exactly weekly and are, in fact, quite sporadic.
Be sure to check out last &lsqu&hell…Read More
2020-07-23 13:42
Hello friends, family, fellow writers, and valued readers and followers of this blog,
So much has happened since my last update in April 2020.
Let me begin by saying that I hope you… Read More
2020-04-27 09:30
Welcome to the third in this series, Tips for Beginner Poets. You can find the previous two posts here and here. By now, you hopefully have implemented some of the previous tips, and are rea… Read More
2020-04-24 13:05
There is a poem brewing inside of me
Like a storm.
“Who are you?”
The mirror asks,
Yet I cannot reply.
Where does one draw the line
Between the rolling thunder
And the lightnin… Read More
2020-04-13 09:44
For Tips #1-5, please visit the previous post on my Five Tips for Beginner Poets. That post became so popular that I have decided to make it an ongoing series. Check back regularly for new p… Read More
2020-04-10 13:51
Please enjoy this poem circa December 2018. My style has changed so much since then!
I remember dancing
To the beat of a wild drum,
The war cry sounding loud in the twilight
But I forget &n&hell…Read More
2020-04-09 20:38
Welcome to the first edition of ‘Writing Prompt of the Week!’
This week’s theme is ‘Rain, Thunder, & Weather,’ as inspired by the epic thunderstorm that jus… Read More
2020-04-07 13:48
Please answer the following short poll. You can select as many choices as you wish, and can even write in your own answer. It’ll help me create better content for your enjoyment and ed… Read More
2020-04-06 09:47
Tip #1: Read, read, and read some more!The quickest and easiest way to get better at writing is to read – for inspiration, to study style and form, to observe and learn so that you may… Read More
2020-04-05 16:26
Hello friends, family, beloved readers, and fellow writers,
I hope you are all riding out the global situation in good health and good spirits.
Here is my most recent published poem, &ldqu&hell…Read More
2020-03-24 22:32
Hi all,
I just wanted to share this resource for writers to come together as a community and write 10 poems every day at 10 AM for 10 days.
Please visit this link to learn more about this… Read More
2020-03-17 21:29
hereis a map of the world as it wasin those final days when the fragile peace we’d brokeredamongst our broken selves still held.I rememberriding the empty trains,absentof the preachers… Read More
2020-02-18 22:02
Hi friends, readers, and fans,
So much has happened since my last update in October.
I have been published in the First Line Literary Journal, and will be published in the Albion Rev… Read More
2020-01-22 19:37
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2019-10-20 14:21
Hello friends, readers, and fellow poets,
Since my last Update From the Author way back in January 2019, which you can read and enjoy here, so much has happened.
In March, I w… Read More
2019-08-09 18:06
Friends, readers, fellow poets and lovers of the written word,
I am writing to share my top five picks (one in each category) for writing books, self-help books, romance, sci-fi, and… Read More
2019-08-09 17:48
Here is a place of dense, foggy silences – where women cross their legs at the ankles and silently pray that the man sitting across from them with a smile so sour it could melt metal i… Read More
2019-03-24 13:07
it was finally
the start of the rainy season
yet as I watched the ice thaw
I could not help but notice
through the parting of your curtains
the plants which had died of thirst… Read More
2019-02-03 16:54
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2019-01-26 21:13
the silence of peace rang out too
late,
too late for me;
the war drums beat their way
into my heart.
I would have written you a love poem,
if only I knew how.
y… Read More
2019-01-20 16:13
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2019-01-18 15:31
Hello friends, readers and fellow poets,
I am writing not a poem, but a letter updating the World Wide Web that I am still around, writing poems, despite the sparsity of posts you may see… Read More
2019-01-06 13:23
The sky was afire this morning.
The stars could not
shine for the clouds,
And the sun had not
yet burnt off the shimmering shrouds of fog,
Yet birds were
singing in their… Read More
2018-12-04 15:13
Imagine your ancestors, and my ancestors –
For they are one and the same –
Soft feet padding across the good earth,
Which bore life, and reclaimed it,
Whose black, lo… Read More
2018-11-26 15:49
They took me down
Past the dregs of November,
Into the depths of winter –
Down into those icy waters,
Past the tide line on the shore
Where all our dreams went to die … Read More
2018-11-18 17:52
Based on a South African star myth of a girl who had such fierce magical powers that when she looked at a group of hungry lions, they turned into stars. The largest of those lion stars are i… Read More
2018-11-16 17:27
A seabird collides with an oncoming train –
And a girl on the platform screams out,
But it is drowned by the screech of the train
As the brakes activate, and
By the whistle, not of m… Read More
2018-11-06 21:51
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2018-11-05 14:41
Title is a line from Dessa’s song “Velodrome.”
Somewhere out there are the post-war Polish poets,
And a collection of words and letters and numbered pages,
The sum t… Read More
2018-10-19 17:41
I want to ride this wave
All the way to shore –
Back to the ocean of our youth,
Back to the wild crests
And the tempests we navigated
By the stars
That governed our two orbits,
Each ar… Read More
2018-10-15 14:59
You cleaved me open
And left my sun-bleached ribs
Scattered
Across the shores of our youth.
There, by the sea,
I gathered sea glass with which to build my home –
And every glittering… Read More
2018-10-12 19:52
2018-10-06 18:37
The burnt-out street light
In the deepest hours of evening,
In the dark of night,
Does not reveal
The sins
So boldly painted
Across our skins;
Ripped jeans,
Cheeks stained with heat,
Lips s… Read More
2018-10-01 16:14
We break our fast
On the sweet fruits of the Garden –
Not the one Adam and Eve left behind,
But rather the one which grew wild in their absence,
The one whose meandering paths have tu… Read More
2018-09-28 00:14
There is a poem brewing inside of me
Like a storm.
“Who are you?”
The mirror asks,
Yet I cannot reply.
Where does one draw the line
Between the rolling thunder
And the lightn… Read More
2018-09-18 11:25
We walked through the forests of our youth
Together,
But the trees dropped their leaves
Too soon.
The flowers, though fain to fight
The onset of autumn,
Succumbed to frost,
Petals f… Read More
2018-09-10 20:45
The cricket’s lament
Sounds loud in the morning light.
Summer, oh glorious season, they sing.
Such light,
Lasting long into the hours of the night.
Such heat! How wondrous it i… Read More
2018-09-01 17:44
Is not another soul troubled
By the inexactitude of timepieces?
The pendulum swings to and fro –
And, ho, another, just a second out of sync.
How is it so that, given world enough… Read More
2018-08-30 16:50
Hypostasis
Is, in literature,
That crucial moment in which a character realizes
He’s not real.
That
Is why Icarus flew too close to the sun.
He knew he was made of myth,
Knew the w… Read More
2018-08-28 16:50
This
Is the sea of my dreams,
This,
Where the sea meets sky in a seamless line of pure pastels,
Ocean surrendering her blues to blend in with the Heavens,
This,
How the ocean looks like glas… Read More
2018-08-23 20:02
2018-08-23 14:33
A poem by Caitlin Cacciatore. For more poetry, feel free to explore this site Read More
2018-08-18 21:11
You are looking at me
Like Marcus Aurelius looked at the stars,
Turnt towards me like the sun towards the moon,
And all is radiant –
You, bright star,
Having flared too fast,
And me h… Read More
2018-08-14 21:26
The blood spilt across my split bottom lip
Looks a little bit like lipstick,
And not at all like the divinity I set out to find.
This
Is not the poem
I wanted to write;
But rather,
The poem… Read More
2018-08-01 19:41
I could have been anyone
But I chose to be Icarus,
Falling from such great height,
And you, Daedalus,
Trying to catch me as I fell,
But your arms were made of myths,
Your wings the stuff of… Read More
2018-07-25 23:10
Brave sentinel,
Defiance glistening raindrop-like from every pore;
Bright against the blue of the sky,
Flaxen petals and roots that run as deep
As the river of our destinies,
You stand stea… Read More
2018-07-23 19:25
In the liminal spaces
Between us –
The place where my lips don’t meet yours,
The clouds of our breath hanging phantom-like around us,
Close enough to touch;
Yet we’ve alre… Read More
2018-07-21 19:16
I remember dancing
To the beat of a wild drum,
Remember the war cry,
But I forget –
Was that your hand in mine?
Your heart, pressed tremulous and beating
Against my breast?
Your breath… Read More
2018-07-21 10:38
I am still searching for the words to speak unto you
Some great and lasting truth,
One that’ll outlive us all;
One that captures the moment,
Holds it golden and glittering in one hand… Read More
2018-07-18 14:17
In the silence,
I keep remembering a great fall
As if from underwater;
In the stillness,
I keep forgetting
The strike of thunder,
The sound of lightning,
The quiet sizzle of still-burning as… Read More
2018-07-15 19:37
Done in response to Jim Simmerman’s ‘Twenty Little Poetry Projects’ exercise, which you’ll find pasted below. Scroll down to go straight to the poem.
Begin the poem… Read More
2018-07-14 19:45
I was on top of the world,
That last day of peace-time,
When the silence and the stillness
Gave way to strife,
As a thousand doomed souls
Found themselves at the Gates of Heaven
Well before… Read More
2018-07-12 20:39
The razor-bladed edge of a cloud
Slices through the sky,
A seabird struggles its way shoreward.
Purple pales
At Periwinkle’s blush,
While Saffron
Delights in the pleasure
Of Sapphire… Read More
2018-06-29 13:27
Your name is like a revelation on my lips.
The syllables taste like an apple, crisp and sweet,
Not the one Eve ate,
But the fruit that Adam partook of,
After he had seen Eve take a leap of f… Read More
2018-06-19 13:01
2018-06-18 20:22
Ascendant, she flies into the fast-fading dawn,
Singing as her wings carry her faster; further.
She is as Atlas upholding the world,
Destined to follow the sunrise
Wheresoever it may fall.
S… Read More
2018-06-16 15:25
I swear I can see the stars from where we are.
I watch them reflected in your eyes,
Fractal patterns that shift and shimmer,
And I am lost,
With no star chart to guide me home,
Save for th… Read More
2018-06-13 14:06
She held her life in her hands
As though it were a dandelion gone to seed,
And she – a child –
Poised on the precipice of some grand wonderland,
About to make a wish
That would… Read More
2018-06-10 22:47
The candy-colored clouds know
That brokenness
Is the better part of blue.
They see
That all sorrow is painted
In a darker hue.
I wonder if they know
About the part of you that still reme… Read More
2018-06-10 13:46
A wise man once said
That worlds are not destroyed,
Merely altered.
If ever I see you again,
I shall ask –
Where you were you,
As I knelt by that altar,
A lamb brought to the slaugh… Read More
2018-06-09 12:28
The lives of the people I half-remember
Take me only halfway of the distance
Between the place where their hearts once beat
And the treble sound in my own chest,
Where once, I had more
Than… Read More
2018-06-05 20:55
every entryway is barred to me as I wander,
a phantasm of my former self.
every door,
slamming just a moment too soon.
I discard your mail
without reading it.
every window, shuttered… Read More
2018-06-04 21:25
Inspired by a poem courtesy of my (much) younger self.
You wear your mask and I, mine,
But who is lying to whom?
The silver-hued glass
Foretells my doom.
My mask was useless, in th… Read More
2018-06-02 17:51
the air weighed heavily upon me,
thick with the smoke of someone else’s dead.
worlds from home, I stood upon that cliff,
and howled your name to the ceaseless stars.
what a pet… Read More
2018-05-30 18:02
I found ‘Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius: The Creativity Challenge’ by Tanner Christensen to be a new and exciting approach to… Read More
2018-05-29 17:42
somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sky,
I think I lost sight of it – world, time, and all.
a cloud passes us by. would the wheel of time
be not as cruel as thou art.
my e… Read More
2018-05-28 21:33
Inspired by a couple on the train last Friday. She was looking at him like he had set the stars in the heavens, and I hope that love lasts for the rest of their lives.
My mistress’s e… Read More
2018-05-27 13:24
the cool expanse of your skin is like the snow that settles,
shining, over the foreverlands of the North.
glimmering, it calls to me, blinds me,
finds me far from the land of my birth,
in t… Read More
2018-05-26 21:20
There is blood on my hands,
In the promised land…
That which we thought stolen was merely bartered,
Still, I ask – what pieces of my soul would you have me martyr?
The stree… Read More
2018-05-25 12:32
Today,
You shall ask,
“For whom does that lonely bell toll?”
Its rings out for me alone.
In all my yesterdays,
I wanted to name you as they named the stars in times of old.
I… Read More
2018-05-24 18:19
The days in their rank and file precision
Pass each other the way lightening will sometimes strike a tree,
And kill the farmer’s herd,
The lot of them having taken shelter from the sto… Read More
2018-05-22 21:55
I.
The trees here
Are as old as the pyramids.
The willows weep for their widows,
Weighty, wracking sobs that wait
Just outside the window.
The apple trees only drop the fruits
Of their… Read More
2018-05-13 17:51
In youth, I was the giant Ymir.
You split me open
And scattered me across the sky,
As Jupiter spread the ashes of Ganymede.
Yet I did not stay long in your orbit,
Preferring to become a star… Read More
2018-05-07 13:34
The (filament) of the lightbulb
Glows blue;
It is not (stigma)
Which has forced her into the arms
Of (an(o)ther).
The night is (petal)-dark.
She thrusts her (pistil)
Against his (stamen)… Read More
2018-05-06 17:02
2018-04-23 15:43
Spared the fire, drown’d in desire,
Beholding the choir yet longing for a lyre,
She stands in rapture upon the holiest of holy lands,
And all at once she understands,
Watching the an… Read More
2018-04-04 21:00
I carried you past the borderlands, through the wastelands, towards the place where we buried our dead in times of old.
Where the waters run sweet and clear; that’s where the grave… Read More
2018-04-02 16:53
Sorrow sheathes your soul in shadow,
And I?
I wish I could lift it,
Like a woman’s wedding veil,
And peer deep into your eyes –
Past the rushing rivers of time
Which have carv… Read More
2018-03-25 17:50
Gleaming in sunlight,
I am the one who carries you from your home in the countryside
To the shining city.
I hold you in my womb,
Each morning delivering you
Changed,
Ever so slightly,
A… Read More
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