Blog Posts Thomas Cannon Author

  • Poetry Can Bring us Together

    Poetry Can Bring us Together

    Whenever I have a new project, I begin by writing.  That was when I made the connection to something I have been exploring for a long time.  The essential skills to having a good life.  One of those is writing.

  • Its Lakefly (Writers) Season

    The Lakefly Writers Conference is my favorite weekend of the year. A few years ago, members of the Oshkosh Area Writers Club (which includes me) was given the challenge of creating a conference for writers.  With the support of the Oshkosh Public Library and the partnership with the Wisconsin Writers Association, we were able to…

  • Call Yourself a Writer

    Call Yourself a Writer

    oetry is especially relevant for writers. I believe that even if you are writing nonfiction, a short story or a novel, there is a poem rolling around in your psyche lighting up the words to use like a pinball machine. So my message to the writers is this:

  • Intimidated by Poetry

    Intimidated by Poetry

    It is in reworking our images and word choice, that we are poets

  • Shattered- Fragile Times in Our Lives

    As I reflect on the story now that it is published, I have been thinking about how people do bad things because of pain.