If you'd told me a decade ago if I'd have my own publishing company, I'd have never believed it. If you'd told me I'd have my poetry collection in a bookstore in an online music store run by the guy who started Apple computers, I'd have wondered what you were drinking. Then, I'd ask you …
Making Poetry Cool for School
I fell in love with a lot of poems when I was given the chance to look at them critically with my own eyes, perhaps even to disagree with the teacher or critics' opinions, and to debate that point in class with my peers. Oxford University Press has a new textbook for grade 10 English …
Hey, Cyberpals
I've just discovered Flag Counter, a widget that allows me to find out more about who's visiting my site, and I have to say, I'm a little obsessed. In the last two days since I installed it, people from 29 different countries have visited Where the Butterflies Go. Imagine if I could host that party …
Progress
from the collection, "Leap" She misses perfumed postcards, snail mail letters; conversations in cafés without the words, "hang on, I have to get this call.” She misses eye contact: knowing gazes and flirty glances that overpower the urge to send an SMS or answer the sound of someone somewhere logging into chat. She texts and …
Don’t Leap!
This is about the only time I'd ever say that--as the author of a book titled, 'Leap,' I'd say I'm a pretty big fan of jumping in and going for it. But "Don't Leap!" is definitely the appropriate title for the latest entry in my "By Leaps and Bounds" Photo Contest. This photo was taken …
Heather Grace Stewart 