Featuring links to published works
Obligatory Moon Poem
where the heart ends up is a kind of funny place after all
The Forever …
Kyla Houbolt’s TUNED warms to the touch of particular life—the memory of singing frogs, weather “hot as the inside / …
Kyla Houbolt occupies Catawba territory, rather unwillingly, in so-called Gastonia, North Carolina. She writes poems and sometimes puts them on …
The Greenway Poet Project started with a missing cat poster. The poster was on a utility pole next to the …
Review of Tuned by Brad Richard
Excerpt: “My favorite thing in a poem is surprise. My other favorite thing in a …
If you like my work and appreciate what I do, and find a few extra bucks in your pocket from …
Photo for “Poems” provided by Ankh Spice and used with permission. Photo for “About” by Joe DePriest, used with permission. Photo for “Donate” by Rakicevic Nenad, used under Pexels license.
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- Spending This LifeIt’s one way to answer Mary Oliver’s question. “Spending this life getting free” was the tagline on my old blog (years defunct now). In reality it’s been more “spending this life trying to figure out how to get free and what do I mean by that anyway?” I’ve spent my life well, I think, though …
- Dawn’s Fool Anniversary, and A New PoemThis month, a few days ago, marks the first anniversary of my first chapbook’s release into the wild. Dawn’s Fool is a micro-chap consisting of eleven poems, most written in the previous year (2019). The title poem, ‘Dawn’s Fool’ was written much earlier, sometime in the 1990s. I’m always moved when I learn how much …
- Is Truth Friendly?The Bob Dylan line, “to live outside the law you must be honest” is one that comes to mind often–a favorite. For one thing, it scans beautifully, so it’s a pleasure to run the mental fingers over. The sonics are satisfying. But more than that it’s evocative of that space outside the bounds of the …
- “You don’t know how far you’re going to have to go to be.” — Ashok KarraHere’s a thing. This fine person wrote an entire blog post reflecting on his experience of reading my poem, ‘Mirror’. He read that poem in a review of Tuned, not in the book itself, as he didn’t have a copy (we have since sent him one.) I can’t tell you how delighted I was to …
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- Facing Down Lovekissing the differencebetween the ride and the wishboneis called “crossing the road” I get motion sicknessjust thinking aboutstarting over some days I runlike a stupid athletein the teeth of evil weather lying down feels betterif you don’t thinkabout those whirligigs brain cells have issueswith the skull boneof no escape it is so hardto imagine anythingcolorless …