Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

  I was originally going to re-write this in a more informal, blog style, but I decided to post it in its current essay form.  I wrote this for a college composition course.  Students working on similar projects will hopefully get a lot ouf of it, and I think the subject is one that will appeal to the [...]

Poetry Lovers: Do You Gogyohka?

According to The Spider Tribe’s Blog: Gogyohka is a new form of Japanese short poetry, founded and pioneered by Japanese poet Enta Kusakabe. Gogyohka is pronounced go-gee-yoh-kuh (the “g”s are hard as in “good”), and literally translated means “five line poem.” Gogyohka is five lines of free verse on any subject matter. There is no [...]

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Verse

(Edit:  Originally, I was going to document the majority of the sports in the 2010 Winter Olympics, but I just kind of flaked and now I’ve forgotten everything that happened.  So…yeah, I just ended up writing about one of the sports–snowboarding.) Dedicated to the memory of Nodar Kumaritashvili Georgian luger who died in a training [...]

Haiku (Idol’s Behavior Less than Idyllic)

you’re not who I thought when I put you up there–give back my pedestal by Edie Montgomery-Pool This haiku was inspired by an experience a friend had. She met an American Idol who turned out to be not at all like their “nice person” image. It sounded like the fame went to their head. Hopefully that person will [...]

Twitter…I’ve Been Assimilated

So when Twitter first came out, I was like, “Yeah!  I have to get on that.”  Then everyone started tweeting, and I was like, “Nah, I don’t want to do it now that everyone is doing it.”  But then the peer pressure got to me.  So, what I’m trying to say is that I’m now [...]

Los Angeles Writers’ Conference in Orange County

What’s Making Me Happy:  I’m going to my first writers’ conference, ya’ll!  (I never actually say “ya’ll” in real life; I just thought it looked good at the end of that sentence.)  I just signed up for the Southern California Writers’ Conference in “L.A.” in September 2009. What’s Really Annoying Me:  The Los Angeles conference [...]

6 Cute and/or Funny Haiku Books You Want to Buy

work is a circus I trapeze without a net surrounded by clowns                –Edie Montgomery-Pool I love haiku, especially when it has a funny or quirky angle.  If you’re feeling the love for haiku, too, here is a list of books that might interest you.  (These would also make great gifts for that person you know well [...]

Goodbye Jay, Hello Conan

As you probably know by now, Jay Leno is leaving The Tonight Show, and Conan will be taking over as host.  I love Conan, so this makes me very happy.  Jay Leno fans also have something to be happy about–now they won’t have to stay up so late to see him as he’ll be starting a [...]

Dark Poem – I Need You

A poem by moi… I Need You by Edie Montgomery-Pool   hold me       until i             suffocate   crush me       leave no bone             unturned   self hatred       is my             savior   but i cannot       destroy             this thing called me                   alone                           i [...]

2008 Summer Olympics: The Short Version – The Games in Rhyme

Are the Summer Olympics taking up too much of your time and digital recording space?  Want to get right to the nitty gritty?  Here are several sports in the 2008 Olympic games, all recapped in 17 words or less.  This is a work in progress; I’ll add more as I watch more Olympics. 2008 Summer [...]