Hard Copies and Hard Times
This month I am actually writing about something important instead of just rambling about the human condition, as I see it. Two...
About Editing Poetry – Mine and Yours
Years ago, I first started publicly reading my poetry in 1994, and in just over a year, I started publishing other people’s poetry, I had...
Its Not my Brother, Oh Lord (Standing in the Need)
Recently I was scrolling through Facebook, as I probably too often am, when I noticed a post my wife had shared from the Southern Poverty...
A White Man Lost in America originally posted August 2, 2016
A White Man Lost in America August 2, 2016 | Anthony Uplandpoet Watkins No, this is not another story of an angry white man threatened by...
A Few Thoughts on Rules, or English as a Second Language originally posted August 30, 2016
A Few Thoughts on Rules, or English as a Second Language August 30, 2016 | Anthony Watkins Okay, I have a few confessions to make. Have...
October's Rant Brought to You by Matthew... or Not
I have scrambled, with the help of my great new staff to get an issue out on time. I have been through nearly a dozen hurricanes. Some,...
I Still Love to Sing
When I was small, and my mother was alive, and young, we had a piano. It was an upright grand her father had bought for her when she was...