I have several poems and art works published lately. First is Issue 1, Volume 2 of the Restoration Earth Journal, http://www.oceanseminarycollege.org/RE_May_2012.pdf. My collages and poems appear on pages 21 (“Hathor’s Chorus”), page 79-80 (“La Fleur” and “The Photograph” ) and page 95 (“Lady in Red”). I appreciate Anne Westlund for suggesting [...]
Here is my first villanelle, from 2009. I found it very interesting and challenging to work in a rhymed form instead of my usual free verse. It was also a stretch to work to a rhyming pattern, but I managed it. I hope to see some of your villanelles posted here! Love’s Progress – A [...]
This week’s poem, an aragman, was a real challenge for me. I generated over 2000 anagrams with the link http://Wordsmith.org/anagram using my pets’ names and saved the results to a Word document. I then picked about 50 that appealed to me which I could see had potential as leading lines into my choice of non-anagram [...]
Sometimes I feel like my poetic well has dried up like the middle of the Sahara desert. So I did a little sleuthing for inspiration. I’ll pull a poem nugget from each of these sites and see if I can get a poem out of them. http://poetsonline.blogspot.com/2009/05/random-poetry-line-generator.html which yielded the lines “In the water of [...]
So you’ve written a poem. Congratulations and job well done! But now what? Time to polish your work till it gleams like a new copper penny, and send it out into the world. Editing is important, as there is always a better, fresher way to word your thoughts, fix up a place where the rhythm [...]
I learned a new word recently, courtesy of a friend and Wiki: Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic, description of a visual work of art. In ancient times it referred to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The word comes from the Greek ek and phrasis, ‘out’ and ‘speak’ respectively, verb [...]
In honor of the winter holidays, let’s write a poem celebrating one. Stumped for ideas? You won’t be for long. Jot down your very brief answers to the following questions: What is the first time you remember celebrating this holiday? Who was there with you? Which was your most memorable celebration of this traditional holiday? [...]
My writing and my art are so entwined that it is hard sometimes to separate them. As with writing, I’ve been collaging since I was a child. Collage is an old art form, revived in the 20th century as modern art, consisting of portions of other works of art, text, purchased or handmade papers, embellishments [...]
We all know the adage, “Don’t sweat the small stuff”, right? Do you know it applies just as easily to writing and poetry as it does to the other important things in life? For example, I hear people asking me “Where do you get your ideas from?” and the answer to that is “Everywhere!” It [...]
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