My first public reading of A Heart Blown Open, from February 20th, 2012, at the Boulder Bookstore.            

My experience of the creative process is one that is often painful, perhaps because I’ve spent much of my life producing writing that falls short of what I see in my mind and feel in my heart. The Curse The curse of writing is the compulsion to do it; like a lust, it compels me [...]

I’ve talked quite a bit about the process of becoming a published author, a process that for me was littered with rejection letters.  In my late twenties, I even resorted to taking a few years off trying to get published so that I wouldn’t have to create new work while getting constant rejection on the [...]

In the winter of 2009 I sat in my apartment, a package ripped open in front of me, literally sweating with pride.  My brand-new book was in-hand, freshly shipped from my publisher. It was a moment I had waited my entire adult life for — to be published, and to have the book, real and tactile [...]

My father spent his life in corporate America, and the end of his career coincided with the implosion of the dot.com bubble in the early 2000′s. This poem was inspired by the men and women he saw lose their jobs, and how those actions were justified by his company’s executives.  It’s a heart-felt and powerful [...]

I often meet people who want to write a non-fiction book, a lengthy article, or a novel.  The question they pose to me is: “How did you do it?” It’s a great question.  I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve always known I wanted to write and have always loved doing it.  So that part was [...]

Back in June of 2009, I wrote a blog entry (on my old website) where I said  I was going to sell my house in Philadelphia, divest myself of all my savings, and put everything I owned and had into creating the memoir of Jun Po Denis Kelly, A Heart Blown Open. The house sold in [...]

So I’m not much of a poet, but all writers feel they must at least attempt some form of poetry…(apologies to the real poets out there)…       The Drop United in our embrace two become one. In one there is no separateness, no loss, no other. It is a drop united with the [...]