Mark Kessinger was born in Huntington WV, attended college at Cleveland State University, lived in Oklahoma City, and has resided in Houston TX since 1984. He is a two-year recipient of a creative writing full scholarship from CSU, a founding member and past president of the Houston Council of Writers, and former editor of Voices […]
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POEM: Ken Holds Barbie First appearance in Inlandia: a literary online journal Growing old, and, growing old together, were not included in the box. Not sold separately. Yet it was always there, in the play, in the premise. That this was the brand of romance that was timeless, forecast, indestructible. I felt this at a certain
Poem: Puzzle Box First appearance in WILDsound Writing Festival The metaphor at work here is, that letters in a panning box, are like ideas in a mind. They are subject to being jostled into all sorts of relationships. It is language and convention that steers them into normal pairings. It is the creative urge that places
POEM: Smashed Faced today with a growing hurricane season, it seemed appropriate that I start off my blog with a poem about the mother of all hurricanes, the 1900 storm that wiped out Galveston. This is especially so, as I have just been thru a few myself, and a good part of the southeast is
The Curated Poetry of Mark Kessinger ~~~~~ INTRODUCTION HELLO, and welcome to The Curated Poetry of Mark Kessinger. This is where I share a collection of my published poems. I call them curated because they were chosen by others, editors, publishers, anthologists, judges, etc. this offers you confidence that the works presented here are of