Today is Memorial Day, but the weather isn’t cooperating: it’s too cold to enjoy the lake. I had planned to take the day off and post tomorrow instead, but it feels like any other Monday, so here I am. However, it’s not just any other Monday. It’s a special Monday because my niece came toContinue reading “What We Find in the Dark”
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The Final Week or Only the Beginning
Today I’m beginning the final week of my portable MFA in poetry. As I read the instructions, she says that after this week I can go back to the beginning and start again. I have to admit, that hadn’t crossed my mind, but sitting here looking at the final week of this two month experience,Continue reading “The Final Week or Only the Beginning”
Diving In or a Step at a Time
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”
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”
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”
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”
Unpinnable Poetry
In the Q&A with Natalie Diaz called “Energy” by Jacqueline Woodson in the March/April 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine, Natalie Diaz surprised me with the word, “unpinnable.” She saidd, “I learned quickly that myth is what makes me dangerous—the ability to make a rock weep for its creator, a way to say the river runs through myContinue reading “Unpinnable Poetry”
A Poem as Time
Time also came up a lot in the special section of the Jan/Feb 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine. Keith S. Wilson who wrote Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (assoc link) his writer’s block remedy is: “Time. They say time heals all wounds, which is a lie, but it is true that no wound healed without time. I hopeContinue reading “A Poem as Time”
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”
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