https://www.alariepoet.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/alarie-the-muse-gets-back-to-recommending-favorite-books monthly 0.5 2025-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/aac28543-b003-4eff-93cc-30071e01c9f0/Stephen+Roth%27s+wild+new+novel.jpg Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - An American Gig is the second novel by Roth that I’ve had the privilege to preview and advertise. It will keep you on the edge of your seat with his mix of fear and hilarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/c46773bf-630e-4857-ba8d-3da292c373e1/Rick%27s+book.jpg Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/48aaa138-f634-4913-b137-240b63e9fca5/Anne+Tyler+Cover.jpg Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - Make it stand out I’ve been an Anne Tyler fan for decades. This new novel is shorter than most, not quite as much emotional punch as some of her works, but I think you’ll enjoy a break from the on the edge of your seat selections I’m showing off this month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1760165433826-4ROVBEEMUTK6O91XUJI5/unsplash-image-RkBJnCC3sFQ.jpg Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - Make it stand out Happy Autumn! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/c16bad78-cf9c-4f9c-8136-45d0da8a7276/When+Ancient+Rome+Came+to+France.JPG Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - Make it stand out I was elated to be named the 2025 Muse of The Writers Place. Getting organized, however, took me a bit longer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/e14e3a25-493d-482f-998a-4e20f2ebee11/Between+Chance+and+Mercy.jpg Blog - The Muse Finally Gets Back to Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/alarie-named-2025-muse-by-the-writers-place monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/3175eb12-b2e1-41de-85f1-a063408528f6/601E2B1A-A854-4EED-A3A7-4D2DC3E2C21B_1_105_c.jpeg Blog - Alarie Becomes a Muse - Make it stand out Barbara and Andrea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/aa6914af-4326-4df5-8498-9bf20f2e001b/2025-04-10+18.52.50+copy.jpeg Blog - Alarie Becomes a Muse - Make it stand out Alarie (in Red Tunic) Is Ready to Bolt for the Microphone. 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Yikes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/117072f8-bd2d-4705-9ca7-712018da8dca/2025+new+year.jpeg Blog - Happy 2025! - Make it stand out Friends who know us well, sent us a lovely gift box with a bottle of Veuve Cliquot, customized with Merry Christmas, a holly stencil, and our names. The bottle is now a souvenir, but we’ll enjoy many more toasts with the C & A glasses they included. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/0f95d800-2dec-4bae-a328-bed83a64377c/Rimsky+wishes+you+long+naps+on+warm+laps.jpg Blog - Happy 2025! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/5e214936-da18-4dcb-b79d-7dcb8ddb078a/Jan.+2025+Blizzard.jpg Blog - Happy 2025! - Make it stand out (Jan. 5) Look closely at the house across the street and you’ll see this was not a black and white photo. I spent five days shut in the house reading. We couldn’t get out of our steep driveway for a few days, but I’m thankful we didn’t lose our power. Previous snowstorms have left us in the cold and dark for a full-week at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/97ebab73-9070-49ed-86c4-0518d149be58/Who%3F+Me%3F.jpg Blog - Happy 2025! - Make it stand out Who? Me? https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/dcxn5td6vcwobi9p1f65avm5yn4s9i monthly 0.5 2024-10-13 https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/channeling-poe monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1728753421770-VPT8AMPEBL5B4VPST2TX/unsplash-image-z1SkCShs-Rg.jpg Blog - Channeling Poe - Make it stand out Be careful out there! Stay away from the Rue Morgue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1728747757702-IVRBKW94J137EHXKHZD4/unsplash-image-JmEBAMLhuxw.jpg Blog - Channeling Poe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/have-a-howling-good-time monthly 0.5 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1728734759878-A9C49YL63WVF82NBSIWO/unsplash-image-83SUHaReev4.jpg Blog - Have a Howwwling Good Time! - Make it stand out Awooooooooooooooooooo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/6c43a17a-8ecc-4f97-9474-25c5e3f8b33c/AdobeStock_651842042_ww.jpeg Blog - Have a Howwwling Good Time! - Make it stand out If you’ve been following this blog, you already know that I’m a night owl and get some unusual, macabre, or just plain weird inspiration after midnight. 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You’ll see in the blog why the new name means a great deal to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/748dfaa9-741f-47cf-a076-069930b43fbe/IMG_1552.jpg Blog - 50-Year Reunion: First Coed Class at UVA - Make it stand out Jill is back with us in this photo. Beside her is Fred, whom I met in eighth grade Latin class, he joined Carolyn and me and later Chris, too, for supper our last two years of college. My husband Chris is in the blue cap. Why was I the only one to miss the blue memo? At least I was wearing a touch of Wahoo orange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/00bce94a-f8a2-4608-b1ad-1516d301e033/IMG_1540.jpeg Blog - 50-Year Reunion: First Coed Class at UVA - Make it stand out You can probably read Claudia’s badge. She was my first-year roommate, the architect I just mentioned. Beside her is Jill, also in my first-year suite of 10 girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/f20ecca9-11b7-4719-8935-cb8867c7a0bf/A%26CvisitedbyAnne.jpg Blog - 50-Year Reunion: First Coed Class at UVA - Make it stand out Ending on a bright note. The reunion events wrapped up on Sunday, but we got a visit from Chris’s sister Anne and her husband, Joe, who took the photo after we shared brunch. If you’re ever visiting Charlottesville, VA, we highly recommend 200 South Street for your lodging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/5b8282eb-5435-4b88-ac24-e463afe532c7/IMG_1538.jpeg Blog - 50-Year Reunion: First Coed Class at UVA - Make it stand out Luncheon right after reading my poems at the Gail Gerry’s Coed Book Discussion. The many meals and cocktail parties were the best part of our reunion because we got to talk to some people we hadn’t seen in fifty years or rarely see now. Nancy on the left is a pediatrician. Carolyn was Nancy’s roommate that first year until I stole my fellow English major to live with me for the next three years. She worked for the government in D.C. My husband Chris wasn’t the only male addition to our table. There was a second Dr. Curtis near and dear to my dorm mates that first year. Nancy’s husband, Jeff, is a retired pathologist. Here he is chatting to Jill. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/write-and-wrong monthly 0.5 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/2414c2a7-6ec2-42d0-96a4-4cf5fdbb9df0/Xmas+2023+books.jpg Blog - Write & Wrong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1709309153344-346TB8NZW3E1ZS1EZHY4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Write & Wrong - Make it stand out We are NOT amused! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/d94bc9e1-9381-4d9d-9e99-ba0cd0aa8484/426406033_10226917867625496_9114235899033964685_n.jpg Blog - Write & Wrong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1709308579764-3KY8EPOTGIVV511CD5HI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Write & Wrong - Make it stand out JUST PLAIN WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, AND RUDE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/476ead45-6ef2-4303-82aa-99da57f25c74/426178576_10226917870025556_118448880140471358_n.jpg Blog - Write & Wrong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/happy-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/2414c2a7-6ec2-42d0-96a4-4cf5fdbb9df0/Xmas+2023+books.jpg Blog - Happy 2024! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1704860028910-859H4U432VQID49QR802/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2024! - Make it stand out Books expand your world, take you back to the past, help you imagine magical futures, let you discover what matters most to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1704790299481-25F7CWBG6Q0WCJ5JVPF6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Happy 2024! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/2414c2a7-6ec2-42d0-96a4-4cf5fdbb9df0/Xmas+2023+books.jpg Blog - Happy 2024! - Make it stand out Wow! Lucky me! I couldn’t even fit all my Christmas books on the table. Thank you, Chris! https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/is-your-brain-a-cat-or-a-dog-a-poets-dilemma monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/d5d56bcc-da4b-427c-9476-3312fa05a66b/Watson.JPG Blog - Is Your Brain a Cat or a Dog? (A Poet’s Dilemma) - Make it stand out Watson enjoys late night poetry readings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/530bd6a1-9dec-48d6-9214-41ad8f6d43c5/full+moon+transition+.jpg Blog - Is Your Brain a Cat or a Dog? (A Poet’s Dilemma) - Alarie in her reading/writing chair, late at night during the full moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/b5a5fea3-3771-427f-a3c0-bb62b8888a76/path+to+enlightenment.jpg Blog - Is Your Brain a Cat or a Dog? (A Poet’s Dilemma) - Watson and Darby trying to point my way to enlightenment. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/write-what-you-know-book-recommendations monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/ecf19969-4f44-4cef-903f-ab16d3071277/book+recommendations+2020.jpeg Blog - Write What You Know: Book Recommendations - Make it stand out A Few of Alarie’s Favorite Books Read in 2020 [From Archive, but good books are timeless.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1700995760427-PTZ3IS412VN78RMENAYJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Write What You Know: Book Recommendations - Make it stand out Happy Reading & Thanks for Reading My Blog! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1700992727192-LZL814P9IV7WCMN44TQ5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Write What You Know: Book Recommendations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/pirates-paintings-and-poems monthly 0.5 2023-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/95064e7a-c964-4169-a13f-268036222077/74450536_10219355306406192_2049699497610929011_n.jpg Blog - Pirates, Paintings, and Poems - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/ddb1bba7-cf37-4da1-bac4-1a8ab3ec515b/Photo+on+7-28-20+at+3.47+PM.jpg Blog - Pirates, Paintings, and Poems - Make it stand out Poet of the High Seas. My solution to wanderlust is to join a pirate’s crew. I don’t think I’ve ever gone two years without at least a long road trip. [ARCHIVED FROM JULY 2020 as I began to find work arounds for my pandemic disappointments.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/1700724297204-9WFWXES6OVGKU929BCRE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pirates, Paintings, and Poems - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/my-corona-hideaway monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/c1a02bd2-1f42-4997-88fd-37023e8e82cf/chocolate+ganache+w%3Abourbon+caramel.jpeg Blog - My Corona Hideaway - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/9378b48d-f015-4406-883f-1579266341c9/My+neighbors+are+masked.jpg Blog - My Corona Hideaway Neighborly Love Even in quarantine, my neighbors are keeping their sense of humor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/94d13d30-c20c-43f3-bc6d-f66762340049/IMG_2178.JPG Blog - My Corona Hideaway - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/it-started-with-storybooks monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/93eb3fd5-52ee-403c-88c1-78d561d4092d/The+Bumper+Book.JPG Blog - It Started with Storybooks My much-worn, original copy of The Bumper Book. I still love the illustrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/0517f6b8-7194-437a-9425-55a766f4683c/One+of+Monet%27s+many+paintings+of+water+lilies.JPG Blog - It Started with Storybooks - Make it stand out Water Lilies by Claude Monet, the Father of Impressionism, is one of the leading men in my poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/aa605e13-5e47-4144-889b-e175d8e2a318/angel-of-showing-up_orig.jpg Blog - It Started with Storybooks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.alariepoet.com/blog/when-art-inspires-words monthly 0.5 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/0e2ddabc-3dad-48af-945f-3ed000ee2751/red-and-green-2021-lorette-c-luzajic.jpg Blog - When Art Inspires Words: Ekphrastic Poetry - Make it stand out Red and Green by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada) 2021. This collage now hangs in my home. [Archived from February 2020] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65019d4c00c22c31b48650ac/81ca2768-1800-48cc-a990-e7b3cfecb9e6/author-promo-pic-lorette.jpg Blog - When Art Inspires Words: Ekphrastic Poetry - Make it stand out Lorette C. Luzajic, artist and writer from Toronto, founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review. A poem must surprise the poet in some way so that it will surprise the reader. It’s like telling singers on TV competitions that they must make a cover their own, create something beyond a second-rate copy of the original. A straight description might work for an art history book, but not for poetry. An ekphrastic poem should be a good poem even if you don’t see the art. I loved Luzajic’s earlier poetry collection, Aspartame, so I rushed to Amazon to get her new book last week. Pretty Time Machine elevates ekphrastic writing to a new level. Pretty Time Machine, the title of the book, the cover art, and the last poem, is a bargain. Few poetry books reach 201 pages unless they are collected poems. As the cover says, they are ekphrastic prose poems, meaning they have justified margins like a novel. But don’t get bogged down trying to define what makes a prose poem, this collection defies categories. It’s unlike any poetry book I’ve read. Luzajic gives the title, date, and artist of each inspiration piece at the beginning of the poems. It would have been a cost and copyright nightmare to print them, but she has compiled a link to the art for those who want to see it: http://www.mixedupmedia.ca/pretty-time-machine.html What makes these ekphrastic poems different is that it’s easy to forget she started with art prompts. There’s something for everyone here, even readers who don’t think they like poetry. Most of the time, I felt I was reading memoir. It seems to be about Luzajic’s life, like the art tapped some personal memory. However, we can never assume that the speaker in a poem is the poet or that she didn’t use hyperbole or bend the truth to get to greater truths. In addition to being a time machine, this collection is a transporter. Many of my favorite poems are about her travel all over the globe, Europe, Mexico, South America, the U.S. It’s also a food memoir (love of food and wine – another thing we have in common). Many of the excursions are out into nature as well as visiting the usual cathedrals, museums, home of Frida Kahlo, etc. Hikers will enjoy poems like “Misery Bay,” which says, “…Here in Manitoulin, in the wild valley between quartz hills and blueberry moss, we are Canadian to our marrow. Our soundtrack, lonely loons.” Occasionally, I did remember there was a painting behind the poem. “Black and Blue” begins, “The beach turned an impossible pink and silver mirror, resisting for just a few more minutes the shadows swallowing the day.” Did you also guess that was Monet? He’s my favorite painter. (Be assured I did check out all the art, because even though it was obvious that Luzajic had taken leaps away from it, I wanted to see where it started.) When I was trying to list all the things this book includes from grief, more cliff hangers than any one life deserves, psychoanalysis, searching for a decent cup of coffee, and Bob Dylan, I realized the poems mirror Luzajic’s multimedia collages. They form an artistic juxtaposition of unexpected memories and symbols. Surprise! Surprise again! She keeps our attention on the page. Poets generally give a lot of thought to what poem leads off a book, but I thought it was especially brilliant for Luzajic to make “Opening Nocturne” a foreword. I could imagine what Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea by James Whistler would look like, the misty, dreamy quality of an evening walk by the water, a perfect setting for memories to rise out of the fog: I’m afraid of this book. I was afraid to write it, but I didn’t have a say. It was writing itself. The keyboard, the black ink pen with the bunny on top, moved of their own volition. 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