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Friday, December 20, 2013

Poetry Friday - Poems from CRICKET NEVER DOES

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Knowing I would be hitting the road this holiday, I finished my shopping ages ago. This means that while everyone around me is whipped into ...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Nonet

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When I sit down to write I find I am more compelled by form than topic. It's also easier for me to wrestle with form than it is to comp...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Poetry Friday - Superstition

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On this Friday the 13th I am sharing a poem by Amy Lowell.  This piece was published in 1919 in a volume entitled  Pictures of the Floating...
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Monday, December 09, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Sijo

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Last week the fall semester came to a close. We still have exams and final projects to wade through, but the light at the end of the tunnel ...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

For Thanksgiving

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Two poems for my readers . . . and wishes for a joyful Thanksgiving. Autumn By Emily Dickinson The morns are meeker than they were, Th...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Thanksgiving

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Well, this week is a no-brainer. Let's write about thanks, Thanksgiving, gratitude, or anything that resembles thankfulness. For a bit...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Poetry Friday - Thanksgiving

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Back in 2009 the Poetry Seven took up the challenge to write together. Here were the rules. We each do a villanelle. In one of our rep...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Prose to Poem

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I've been reading a lot of primary source documents for my class and am thinking about transforming a prose document into poetry. Let...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Poetry Friday - To Sleep

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Here's what I need most in my life these days ... To Sleep by John Keats O soft embalmer of the still midnight! Shutting with care...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Poems of Peace

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In thinking about Veterans Day I read over some of the pieces linked at the Poetry Foundation's page on Veterans Day Poems , as well as...
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Friday, November 08, 2013

2 Days Late for a Birthday Milestone

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On November 6, 2006 (that was 7 years ago!), I launched this blog. Here's a picture of that post. At that time I was still teaching...
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Poetry Friday - For the Chipmunk in My Yard

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I've long been a reader of and subscriber to American Life in Poetry . American Life in Poetry is a free weekly column for newspapers a...
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Monday, November 04, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Cinquain

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Poets.org defines the cinquain in this fashion. The cinquain, also known as a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five l...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Poetry Friday - November Night and Triad

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I've been reviewing poetic forms while selecting topics for my Monday Poetry Stretch series . Since cinquain will be coming up soon, I ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween - A Bit 'O Shakespeare

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Macbeth: Act 4, Scene 1 A dark cave. In the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. First Witch  Thrice the br...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - 13 Ways of Looking at Fall

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This weekend I was savoring Wallace Steven's wonderful poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird . I began to think that looking at ...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Poetry Friday - Zero by Eve Merriam

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In honor of the holiday just 6 short days away, I'm sharing a poem in the spirit of the season. I love the 1987 publication  Halloween...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Rictameter

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Created in 1990 by two cousins, rictameter  is a nine line poetry form in which the 1st and last lines are the same. The syllable count is ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Poetry Friday - Mortimer Minute

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I hope Mortimer isn't too angry that I finished off the last of the fresh celery greens last night while making a pot of yummy vegeta...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Monday Poetry Stretch - Kyrielle

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I seem to be stuck on repeating forms these days. There is something challenging about fitting the same line(s) into a poem and making it w...
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