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The Jenny McKean Moore Free Community Workshop is taking applications.
This is a semester-long workshop that requires no academic qualifications or prior publications. Beginning or intermediate writers might find this weekly workshop the most useful, though anyone may apply.
The workshop takes place:Wednesdays, 7 - 9 p.m.January 2008 - April 2008
Applications must be sent by: December […]
Marci Johnson, of WordFarm Press, sent me fiction and poetry books to review. The covers are stunning and use stock photography from Istockphoto and Getty Images. Those two stock photo companies have allowed smaller companies and presses to use impressive images on their books and in their marketing materials. No longer must someone hire a […]
I had an event to attend tonight about 25 miles from my house. It took me 1.5 hours to reach this place, and 30 minutes of that was spent in a tunnel under the U.S. Capitol. Plus…
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I belong to a number of social networking websites such as Good Reads, Facebook or LinkedIn. I’ve heard a few people say they don’t have time for sites like that, and I can empathize and understand with that point of view. At the same time, it’s important to recognize the power of book marketing with […]
I stumbled across a number of interesting poetry articles this week and thought I’d share them with you. Reading articles on poetry — such as the ones listed below — is how I’m getting back to writing after a stressful month.
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I found a poem of mine on this blog. This poem gets republished on a lot of blogs for some reason. I was not able to leave a comment due to technical issues, so I’ll say “thanks” here and hope the blog owner sees this post.
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One of the reasons I’ve not blogged a bit more regularly is above. I’ve been participating in National Poetry Writing Month. Sandra Beasley started an August version of the event. I like to call it the 31-Day Poetry Challenge. Some of my August 2007 titles:
Electricity
Funeral
Song of the Scrub Tech
Surgery
Virginia
Birthing Time
Mangos
The House
Postcard from Anger
The 39th Week […]
Are you looking for ideas of poems to memorize? Readers such as yourself recently listed favorite poems. I think “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” is on my list of poems to memorize.
While we’re on the topic of September’s challenge, what shall we call the month? The word “memorize” […]
Since there’s April Poetry Month, I hereby declare September to be “Memorize Poetry” month. You don’t even have to memorize all the poems in the world — only four.
One poem per week…how difficult can that be? Here are rules:
1. One poem can be shorter than 10 lines. Ideally, the others should be longer than 10 […]