Voices who awe and inspire me. Or make me laugh. Or think. Or do other things that ought not be said in polite company.

(And this is always a work in progress. Forgive me if I have been remiss in my list completeness.)

My dear friend Kate (Whirling Dervish) blogged with me for a few years, but she is in graduate school and busy with lots of other things. I have rebuilt the blog to separate things and to give me a fresh start. If you are looking for her or her words, drop me an email and I will try to help you find what you want. (See the “Contact” page below the header.)

Favorite poet-bloggers:

• Balanced on the Edge
• carolee sherwood
• Coyote Mercury
  
• Crafty Green Poet
• everything feeds process
• Jillypoet: mom trying to write
• mole
• One Day at a Time
  
• Poet Mom
• Poéfrika
• Peony Moon
• the practice room
• the rain in my purse
  
• Rooted
• Sherry Chandler
• Tribe of Mad Orphans
  

Favorite poetry sites (& sometimes there is more than poetry):

• Autumn Sky Poetry
• Bolts of Silk
• Friends of William Stafford
• Line Art
• Modern American Poetry
• Poetry Northwest
• Poets Against War
• Poets Who Blog
• A Handful of Stones
• qarrtsiluni
• unsplendid
• Windfall

Other creative inspirations (art, literature & more):

• the cassandra pages
• I and the Bird: A Carnival of Bird Blogs
• Land of Little Rain
• Linera Lucas Lit Blog
• Raven’s Nest
• red Ravine
• slow reads
• Sunday Scribblings
• The Red Electric
• via negativa
• Watermark