Author: Ron Koertge

Most of the Hamline bloggers are in St. Paul with more than enough to do, so I’ll don the mantle (Look how it matches my eyes!) and write a bit.I was reading/reading about Mary Ruefle this morning and this caught my eye:...

I sometimes run little, informal writers’ workshops at Senior Centers and every now and then I drop into the community college where I taught for two thousand years and talk to the Poetry Writing class. The seniors (of...

I’m back and classically jet-lagged. So don’t expect much, but I thought I’d check in. There will be a reward at the end, a gift from Chris Heppermann.We were on the move a lot while we were away and I...

I was helping out a friend who’s doing work-for-hire. She had a desk piled high with first-draft manuscripts and just needed someone to read quickly and give her an idea of what needed to be done. She had a lot at 20-25...

Here’s a poem by Richard Newman that I love. It’s easy to read, it’s funny and it’s true to the bone. Bless Their Hearts At Steak ‘n Shake I learned that if you add “Bless their hearts” after their names,...