Poetry Caitlin Cacciatore Long-Listed for the International Erbacce-Prize for the Fifth Year 20 May 2026 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers, I am privileged to announce to the world that I was long-listed for the international erbacce-prize for the fifth year. It is,…
Poetry “The Memory of Calmer Seas” Out Now in ‘When Home Hurts: a Nonfiction Anthology’ 22 Sep 202522 Sep 2025 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, Future Historians, and Cherished Readers, It is with a great deal of pleasure that I write to you today, on Monday, September 22nd, 2025, the…
Love Poetry… Caitlin Cacciatore’s “Elegy for an Empty Womb” Published in Letters to Our Children: an Anthology 12 Sep 202516 Sep 2025 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers,I am happy to present you with an epistolary essay that comes from the heart, speaks to the soul, and breaks my silence…
Love Poetry… “I Shall Knoweth Thy Name” Published by Aôthen Magazine 9 Aug 2025 My poem, "I Shall Knoweth Thy Name," published in Aôthen Magazine - a magazine centered around the classics as well as Greco-Roman and Ancient Egyptian mythologies and cosmogonies - was…
Poetry Update From the Author: January 2024 16 Jan 202418 Mar 2024 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers, I write to you today to relate the adventures of the past few days. I attended the 30th Annual Winter Poetry &…
Poetry Update from the Author: Mid-May 2021 11 May 2021 Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Beloved Readers, I am pleased to announce that I won first prize in the Jerome L. Schulman Memorial Poetry Contest for my poem, "the plague…
Poetry An Update from the Author: Early May 2021 4 May 2021 Dear Friends, Family, and Beloved Readers, I have some exciting news to relate! I recently won Second Prize in the Baruch COVID Diaries Essay Writing Contest 2021. Additionally, I am…
Interviews… An Update from the Author: September 2020 20 Sep 202012 Aug 2022 Hello friends, family, fellow lovers of language, and assorted followers of this blog, I hope this update finds you in good health and in good spirits. I have lots of…
on writing… Writing Prompt of the Week: Summer 18 Aug 2020 Welcome to this edition of Writing Prompt of the Week, which is a bit of a misnomer in that the posts are not exactly weekly and are, in fact, quite…
on writing… Four More Tips for Beginner Poets 27 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 Welcome to the third in this series, Tips for Beginner Poets. You can find the previous two posts here and here. By now, you hopefully have implemented some of the…
