An Interview with Renée M. LaTulippe by Rochelle Melander Congratulations on your new book, LIMELIGHT. Can you tell us about it? Thanks so much for having me, Rochelle! Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! is a genre-blending collection of mask poems about theater, presented in a graphic novel format. Most of the poems are written...Read More

An Interview with Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong by Rochelle Melander Where did the idea for My Kooky Compendium of Thimblethoughts and Wonderfuzz come from? JW: I was a guest speaker at a writer’s conference. Someone asked, “What should writers be writing right now?”—and, a little surprisingly, I answered, “funny poems.” This surprised me because...Read More

by Rochelle Melander Poetry turns the noise of the world into music. —Ian Williams I’ve been participating in the 100-day project. Since February 23, I’ve started the day writing a poem. Mostly I am writing haiku, which asks the writer to reflect on the natural world. On some days, I use the poetry practice to...Read More