Poetry Friday: Thunder on the Green Horizon

Don't forget to visit this week's round up. I really hope I can read and respond to more participants this week. Here's hoping. As part of Christie Wyman's "Playing with Poetry" workshop, we explored "Text-based poetry." Forms that I've admired but honestly did not think were all that difficult. I was in for a surprise …

Poetry Friday: Change Can Be:(Explorations with Ekphratic poetry)

This week we did explorations with Ekphratic poetry: poems written based on, inspired by images. Google tells me one of the most famous examples is Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." I love that poem, but I'm not sure what it all means no matter how many times I read it. And that's okay. I …

Poetry Friday: “A List of”

"Finding safe online spaces for writing is invaluable to me as a poet-teacher..." so begins this weeks poetry roundup post (visit here) by margaretsmn. I'm repeating her words because they ring so true. This week was also my 3rd week and of summer and it was the first week of Pondering Poetry with Christie Wyman. …