Michael Simms

A poem is rooted in the rhythms of pulse, breath and movement. Why some patterns of sounds are more pleasing than others is a mystery, yet

I’ve always loved poetry that has a clear voice, a strong reliance on craft, and a sense that a person is speaking about ideas or incidents

Should literary authors take genre fiction more seriously? Michael Chabon thinks so. My friend RJ, a wonderful poet and an extraordinarily

Today on the Classic Cars website, I saw an ad for a fully restored 1965 GMC pickup with a hard-shell camper hood, and I thought of Henry

From a neighbor’s window, I hear Billy Joel’s carpe diem Only the Good Die Young in which he tries to convince a good Catholic girl

A writer without a reader is an empty thing, a thumb without a finger to oppose it, a traveler without a companion. I was appalled by the...

In an Artist’s Studio One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: We found her hidden just...

My work in the poetry field the last 40 years has been largely behind the scenes — editing, publishing, promoting, organizing, raising money

Robert Gibb is a poet’s poet. By that phrase I mean that he’s widely admired among poets across the country, but virtually unknown to