This week jumped from a cold and rainy Spring, to a hot and sunny Summer. I took my first dive into the lake, was greeted with an icy bite, and got right back out. Saturday, I took the slow walk down the ramp, but didn’t get all the way in. Which was better? Each hadContinue reading “Diving In or a Step at a Time”
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Taking Risks
Exciting News! The Spring 2024 Vol. 26 Edition 2 of Stirring is now available, and I’m one of two featured artists. The online magazine includes two of my black and white photographs from my Murmurations series. Please check it out, and let me know what you think. Back to the Mirrorworld This morning I reconfiguredContinue reading “Taking Risks”
Setting Off On My Road Trip
After looking at everyone’s Reflections posts, I realized that even though I tried to visit everyone’s A to Z posts as much as I could, I missed out on a lot. Now that the rush to get my posts written every day is over, I can spend some time enjoying all the posts written inContinue reading “Setting Off On My Road Trip”
April Review and What’s Coming in May
I gave the challenges my all. I showed up every day. I began the month promising acceptance for whatever comes, and then instantly regretted it, because the unexpected came again, and again. There was nothing to do but accept it, and yet that didn’t mean I could help but want to get off the roller-coasterContinue reading “April Review and What’s Coming in May”
And Zoom It’s Over
The July/Aug 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine was the first of the magazines I studied this month where the effects of COVID-19 became apparent, an interesting place to end this intensive jaunt through the recent history of Poets & Writers. In the Trends section in a piece called “Literary Festivals Go Virtual” I read, “The Jackson HoleContinue reading “And Zoom It’s Over”
You Are Poetry
While reading through the July/Aug 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, I didn’t find a lot of Y words to choose from. The one that came up the most was “you” in the form of a question. Like in the Q&A with Natasha Trethewey, Joshunda Sanders asks, “Are you relieved to have physical distance from Georgia?” “Have youContinue reading “You Are Poetry”
Wild and Mysterious Poetry
This week I talked about being unpinnable, the violence of language, and survival, so I was drawn to my Sasquatch poetry kit (assoc link). The Prompts NaPoWriMo: Write a sijo. “This is a traditional Korean verse form. A sijo has three lines of 14-16 syllables. The first line introduces the poem’s theme, the second discussesContinue reading “Wild and Mysterious Poetry”
Poetry as Survival
In the Special Section “Inspiration” in the Jan/Feb 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, several of the poets used the word “survival” when talking about how their collection began. Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes who wrote The Inheritance of Haunting (assoc link) said, “This book emerged as a result of poetry as a mode of survival and healing atContinue reading “Poetry as Survival”
Music Lover Poetry
This week I couldn’t resist the Music Lover(assoc. link) magnetic poetry kit. Here’s a poem I wrote with it. The Prompts NaPoWriMo: write a poem that focuses on a single color PAD Challenge: write a trope poem Today’s Poem Bad Guys Who Can’t Aim How do you know whothe bad guy is when they’re allContinue reading “Music Lover Poetry”
Experience Writing 