My First Book

Man, the past six months of celebrating the publication of my first book have been wild. It’s impossible to predict how such an event will affect a writer’s life, for better or for worse. I’m choosing to focus here on the positives and thank the poetry fans who turned out to hear my [...]

UMPH! PROSE SEEKS SUBMITS

City narratives (prose poetry, flash fiction, etc.) wanted for first issue of new online journal U.M.Ph.! Prose. Get ‘em in soon. I’m ready to roll!
Check guidelines first, then submit to umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
http://umphprose.com

NaPoMo: Poem Per Day

I took on another 30 poems in 30 days challenge.  Most of the poems are here; some have been or will be removed as I submit them for publication. (Some publishers will not publish poems that have appeared, even as drafts, on blogs, so I can’t post all 30 poems here).
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Sometimes There’s a Simple Solution.
The one [...]

Interviewed

Photo: Jack Scully
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Interviewed by: Doug Holder
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Mignon Ariel King is a dyed-in-the wool Boston poet. In her introduction to her new collection of poetry “The Woods Have Words,” she invites the reader to:”…stroll along the Charles River… walk through the streets of Boston,…or zip under and over the state of Massachusetts on the country’s oldest subway.” King [...]

THE WOODS HAVE WORDS

Cover painting: Charmed Silent by Hannibal King
THE WOODS HAVE WORDS: poems of tribute, my first collection of poetry, is now available from Ibbetson Street Press. Thank you for supporting small-press poetry.
http://lulu.com/ibbetsonpress
 
Review by Gloria Mindock, Cervena Barva Press

With poetry so honest and images so powerfully quiet, Mignon will be your guide to the many areas of Boston. [...]

Miss you, Mike!

My friend, spoken-word poet Mike Amado, died two weeks ago. I was kinda hoping if I didn’t ever write that he is gone, somehow I could pretend it was all in my head. When I think of Mike, I can almost hear his unique laugh, remember the funny e-mails he sent that kept [...]

Prose Poems and Flash Memoir

You decide which is which:

When Dearly Departed

     Why the heck were most of my aunts single and kidless? Simple. Aunt Stella–living happily in the sticks with her thirteen cats, root cellar, famous rhubard pies, old stereo with an automatic arm working through a stack of 78’s–knew the score. You have to marry a big [...]

September Poems

Chilling with Longfellow
If a body meet a body
in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
that’s probably not a good thing.
But coyotes aren’t a big threat
regardless of the springing dash
of a tan jackrabbit into bushy cover,
making a break right before
Longfellow’s crypt looms up to the left
of the leafy-lined Indian Ridge Path.
Dead men don’t care what I wear
or how much I [...]

Featured Reader Next Tuesday

I will be reading as part of the feature next Tuesday in Cambridge from Bagels with the Bards No. 3.  This is my writing community’s anthology, and there will be approximately 25 of us 50 Bards, each reading his or her own poem and possibly that of a missing comrade in pens.  If our Saturday [...]

Open-mic at Poetry Reading in Newton

Tomorrow, Sept. 9:
Newton Free Library 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre.
 Check MBTA website–never been there via T, but some friends have. 
I’m going mostly to see the phenomenal Michael Mack, but I’ll be reading
from my book-to-be at the open mic.