Gayle Glass

Safekeeping

Safekeeping

As I am writing this, I am waiting on a squall line that the weather-guy says is approaching my neighborhood. If it really hit hard, what would I save first? Well, the pets, of course. But beyond that? The computer? It has my life in it. But a few years back, when I first discovered […]

The True Nature of Poetry

Just a short note, with one of the best quotations on Poetry I’ve ever run across… At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat a couple weeks ago, I fell in love with a poem that Karen Honnold read at one of the evening sessions. Later I found it was from her chapbook, and she had only brought a copy to read […]

What's In A Name? (Titles)

What’s In A Name? (Titles)

You know you’ve done it. Perused the shelves at a local book store, looking through hundreds of volumes, trying to choose one to take home. You might have picked up a couple because the covers were so attractive. But the titles? Meh. Ah, but the one you chose….what really made you look inside? You bet. […]

What's in a Name? (Writers)

What’s in a Name? (Writers)

Do you write under a pen name?  Here’s a few reasons for doing this: to write in different genres to remain fairly anonymous in your home town to keep stalkers away from your door to hide the gender of the author to write in a style not associated with your already well-known name to honor […]