This week for Staying Power, I sat down to write one thing, and something totally different came out. (Surprise! Ain’t life grand?) What came out was a poem that imitates “The House That Jack Built,”…
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Award-winning poet Barbara Crooker commends For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing, Phyllis’s latest book.
This week Phyllis launched My Poetry Studio, a “poetry play space” where she will post original poems-in-progress.
Gloria Heffernan’s thank-you poem to Phyllis results in a pandemic response poem, “If You Ever Wonder.”
Working too hard? Read Phyllis’s poem “I Want to Play,” then try writing your own … just for fun.
Phyllis is happy to announce the public launch of Gatherings, an art and poetry-based project that grew out of the pandemic. The artist Lynda Lowe invited Phyllis to collaborate on this project shortly after COVID-19 struck the…
To observe her 58th birthday yesterday, Phyllis wrote 58 one-line pandemic prayers and shaped them into a poem. See the text below. Perhaps it will give you a boost. You can listen to Phyllis read…
Back in 1999, when Phyllis lived by choice for 47 days on the streets of Columbus, “Grateful, grateful!” was her shortest, most meaningful prayer. This year, in celebration of Thanksgiving, she invited readers of her…
Poet and anthologist James Crews interviews Phyllis and Ruby R. Wilson, her co-editor on the award-winning Poetry of Presence, about the back story of the collection. Read the in-depth article here.
I was delighted in March to join some dear friends in Massachusetts for a radio interview about Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. Hosting the discussion was Daisy Mathias of “Poetry á la…
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