[all] [stories] [poems] [books] [screen] [stage]

Rubber Room A Poem by LJW Part 2 of The McLean's Series.

The Answer A Poem by LJW

A note that'll never be left near t.. A Poem by LJW

4th Stair From The Bottom A Poem by LJW

Why Catherine Extolled The Virtues .. A Poem by LJW

Street Walkers A Poem by LJW

Chaos Theory A Poem by LJW

October 8th, 1888 A Poem by LJW

Red Geraniums In White Pitcher A Poem by LJW

Beyond Words A Poem by LJW

Glitch (Animalculum) A Poem by LJW

I love to write poetry and prose, and most recently, short stories.


I am in the medical field. Married to a very patient man. Mom to four cool children who'd never do you wrong.
Cat lover/Dog liker. I like all things old, the older the better. My computer, phones, cars, and a few TV's are about our only nod to the technological maelstrom that swirls around us all, threatening to suck us all down into a neon light- filled silicon chip- lined version of Hell. Oil lamps rock.

Please support your local newspaper by buying it and reading it and support your local library's future (and the future of books as a whole) by visiting it with your children on a regular basis and teaching them about the joy and necessity of reading.

I have been widely published in the small press. That's about as comforting to admit as a man admitting he has a very small penis...to some, yes, but the small press is where non-conventional writers like myself, who have been labeled "underground" feed and multiply.


I have been published in print/cyber-print in:


Heroin Love Songs
Outsider Writers
Alabaster & Mercury
Calyx
Eviscerator Heaven, Issue #4
Phoebe
Clockwork Cat
Medusa Netzine
Isotope
Zygote In My Coffee
BadWriter
New England Review
10K Poets
Anderbo
Vulcan

I think others, but I forget.


An anthology with a horrible title:


Satiated Summer



Blue Mountain Arts bought a greeting card from me.


I just sold a card to Hallmark.


I was an editorialist for my local newspaper years back.


My first book, HYBRID, is available online from deadbeatpress.com.


In short, I write because I want to and because I have to or my head will explode.


Looking to read and write here and be a positive contribution to this writer's community.

Please understand the difference between blowing smoke up someone's ass and being a positve addition.

If I read and comment on one of your poems, my comment will be 100 % truthful and offered as my personal opinion only. If you like smoke and you bend over a lot and do not seek honest comments, you can go ahead and block me.

I gravitate toward writers who tell a story in a way I have never heard it told before.
Writers who either don't know the rules or make their own rules.
Writers who end their lines where THEY want to end them.
Writers who arrange stanzas in odd patterns.
Writers who use the word "fuck" effectively.
Writers who have no particular style; writers who switch up and change up.
Writers who make me lean back in my chair after reading and say to myself," I hate you for writing better than me."


I've found more than a few of you on here so far. :-)

If you're mean, please go away.