Spotlight: Stranded Artist Series

Originally posted on Cadence Collective: Long Beach Poets:
As 2013 beckoned a new beginning and resolutions to be broken, Long Beach was getting a gift in the poetry world.  Thanks to Markus Manley and Danielle Mitchell, Long Beach saw the introduction to a twice monthly Poetry Lab.  Everyone is invited, no one turned away, and…

My friend Eric is the new correspondent for the BoredomBreak YouTube channel. Here he is on location at WonderCon in Anaheim. He interviewed The Tick, Black Widow, Magento, and Wolverine (hubba hubba!) As with all our new endeavors, Eric is looking for excited followers. If you think this video is cool, like it on YouTube…

Prose Poems in Connotation Press

Spring is in the 90-degree-air in here in Southern California and I’m happy to have three prose poems from my current work in progress published by Connotation Press! Editor-in-Chief, Ken Robidoux, introduces my work saying: I’m thrilled to have three stunning prose poems from our friend Danielle Mitchell, who has done very well since working…

Haiku Battle in Six Movements

Before I unleash this salacious battle into your computer screens, allow me to provide a back story. Eric Morago is a wood nymph born in a wine barrel. Someone somewhere along the line has photographed him fiddling with straws and given him other instruments through which he plays poetry. He’s been recorded, printed, staged, and…

Squaw Valley Greatest Hits

  I just returned [July, 2011] from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevadas. What an amazing place, what lovely and talented people! Here are a few quotes from our staff poets who led workshops and gave craft talks. Sometimes the dissatisfaction with the end of a poem is the…