Interviews and Features

My Smashwords interview, as author and publisher.

For Poets United (in reverse order of publication, with the most recent first):

Poems of the Week: Furry Feline Friends We Have Known and Loved 11 February 2019

Poems of the Week by Annell, Wendy and Rosemary 9 April 2018

Poems of the Week ~ Then and Now, by Wendy, Mary and Rosemary 27 August 2018

Blog of the Week ~ The Poetry of Rosemary Nissen-Wade (and talking about the book, "Three Cycles of the Moon"). 20 March 2017

Poems of the Week ~ Blessings and Gifts, with Sanaa, Susan and Rosemary 21 November 2016

Poems for a Witchy Halloween 31 October 2016

Poems of the Week ~ A Look Back with Rosemary, Steve and ZQ 8 August 2016

Poems of the Week ~ Our Staff: On Poetry 25 April 2016

On Poetry and Witchcraft 12 October 2015

Poems of the Week: On Grief, by Sumana, Annell and Rosemary 20 July 2015

Chat Between Two Poets – Rosemary Nissen-Wade and Sherry Marr, about the book "She Too". 13 October 2014

The Life of a Poet (update, about widowhood, the esoteric, and my life as a writer) 21 October 2013

Poem of the Week – The Traveller 24 June 2013

Life of a Poet ~ The Passionate Crone 14 September 2011

A Poet in the Pandemic

Luckily I'm mostly an online poet. Social distancing is not required on social media. All the usual poetry groups and communities are still operating. Currently I'm mostly at Poets and Storytellers United , for the very good reason that I'm officially its Coordinator these days – albeit with a wonderful, smooth-running, no-fuss team who don't need a lot of coordinating. I occasionally look at what's happening at dVerse ; and I'm thrilled that the archived imaginary garden with real toads is reactivating temporarily, with daily prompts for the 'poetry month' of April. Then there are the facebook groups. I'm the admin of Haiku on Friday and Tanka on Tuesday (not that they need much administration) and I sometimes look in on Found Haiku, Erotic Haiku , and NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month). Above all there are my own poetry blogs where I share the latest work – which you'll find under the tab My Poetry Blogs at the top of the pag

Elevensies – a new poetic form

This unique, intriguing form was created by Australian poet Kerri Shying, who is eager for other poets to try it. See my article about it at Poets and Storytellers United: here .

New anthology from dVerse

The dVerse online community of blogging poets, in which I sometimes participate, has just published this beautiful new anthology of 104 poets from all over the world, who also share their work in that community: It's available from Amazon North America and Amazon Europe . And yes, I am delighted to tell you I have two of my own poems included. We weren't invited to choose poems to submit to this anthology. Instead the editors selected from poems already shared with dVerse during a specific time period. I was surprised at which ones of mine were chosen: probably not among those I would have submitted if asked, even though I am fond of them. But tastes differ. Though I had not considered them my best work, I'm very glad that the editors valued them more highly, so that these particular poems now get much wider exposure than I would have given them. (They are At Mariner's Café and My Home River . ) These days I usually prefer ebooks to paperbacks, but this

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