Christine Klocek-Lim's Blog

It has been over a year since I’ve posted here, but I can’t apologize for this. We’ve all been trying very hard to survive the impossible and that sort of thing takes energy and time and hope. I haven’t felt very hopeful in a long time, until today. What changed? I read a book. This […]

This poem is the first one I’ve written in over two years. I sent it out once, it was rejected, and I’m not particularly interested in hopping back on the submission train at this time, so I’m posting it here. If you know me, you know that I’ve been sewing a lot of cloth masks […]

No, I’m not talking about the dance (although the Hustle remains my very favorite), I’m talking about writing! I’ve started writing again, because I want my voice to be heard in this world. Isn’t that what writers do? No matter what else I am, editor, housewife, mother, chronically ill person, artist, I’m also and always […]

In honor of National Poetry Month, Escape Into Life is featuring several of my poems about poetry today: How a moth flies into a poem, How to read a poem, This is not a poem, The solace of poetry. “Inevitably she is driving when it happens—” Check out the great art, too –> Escape Into Life […]

Four years ago I posted about loving this season, so much so that my first website was called November Sky. And then I began publishing Autumn Sky Poetry, and Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY. This year I’m taking a break from publishing and trying to focus on writing and photography. Here are a few of this […]

I wrote this poem in 2008. While writing it, I finally learned that sometimes things that mattered not at all to me often mattered a great deal to someone else. This poem is from Dark Matter, and was one of the poems that won the 2009 Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize. Mysterious white rock fingers on Mars […]

My older son is graduating from college this Friday with a degree in computer engineering. I would like to say oh, how time flies, or what just happened to the last twenty-odd years, so that everyone can nod their heads in understanding, but clichés will be the death of me, so I shall refrain from such indulgences. Instead, […]

This weekend I’ll be at the Houston Writers Guild Annual Conference, taking pitches for Evernight Publishing! The pitch sessions are on Saturday, but I’ll also be around Friday afternoon and evening, as well as Saturday night. I’m looking forward to meeting you! Click here to register.

It’s National Poetry Month again, and I have no plans to write a poem a day (NaPoWriMo). However, this one slipped into my head yesterday and today. A gift? Or a curse? Not sure yet. Skill Set—Poet Sometimes I speak in verse— iambic lines, or worse, trochee. It’s like a curse I cannot stop. Perverse, […]