Day 27 of #VerseLove25, Thinking About Serenity, Odes, and Finding Ways to Calm the Being on Hectic Days I realize this work-a-holic doesn't have too many getaways for finding serenity. Rather than knitting, I tend to find other intellectual pro...

Day 27 of #VerseLove25, Thinking About Serenity, Odes, and Finding Ways to Calm the Being on Hectic Days

On the 25th of #VerseLove25, My True Love Gave to Me Good Wishes with a Double Dactyl Poem (Whatever That Is) I readily admit I failed yesterday's #verselove25 challenge, only because I was out of the house for 14 hours with writer Torrey Maldonado v...

On the 25th of #VerseLove25, My True Love Gave to Me Good Wishes with a Double Dactyl Poem (Whatever That Is)

On the 24th Day of #VerseLove25, the Pollen is Doing Me In...But There's a Big Day Ahead with Stratford Public Schools Torrey made it to the Marriott. Books have been picked up and we're heading to a day of middle school presentations. My head, however, is st...

On the 24th Day of #VerseLove25, the Pollen is Doing Me In...But There's a Big Day Ahead with Stratford Public Schools

Phew! 23 #VerseLove25 Poem, A Crazy Day of Events, the Departure, and a Wonderful Celebration of Student Greatness on Campus I hope I didn't make a mistake. One of my porch windows (not five years old) has moister in between the glass panes. I believe a seal is bro...

Phew! 23 #VerseLove25 Poem, A Crazy Day of Events, the Departure, and a Wonderful Celebration of Student Greatness on Campus

Happy Day After Earth Day. Accomplished #VerseLove25, Poem 22, and Now It is a Marathon Day of Research Presentations, Airports, and Award Ceremonies Education is brutal year round, but during the end-of-a-semester, the number of celebrations, ceremonies, invitations, and obligations pile ...

Happy Day After Earth Day. Accomplished #VerseLove25, Poem 22, and Now It is a Marathon Day of Research Presentations, Airports, and Award Ceremonies

Well, the 21st Day of #VerseLove25 Was to Politically Rant, But I Don't Have the Energy. I'd Rather Look to Optimism and Possibility It's also wonderful having Chitunga home for a short time. It's much easier for me to be distracted, to find an excuse to spend more time wi...

Well, the 21st Day of #VerseLove25 Was to Politically Rant, But I Don't Have the Energy. I'd Rather Look to Optimism and Possibility

Happy Easter! And on the 19th Day of #VerseLove25, the Challenge Came to Me: A Food Poem about Location, Taste, and Memory. No Brainer. Dave and I stayed up past midnight, and I'm not used to that. Kris and Ishy retired early, and all three of them slept in, but I'm a creatur...

Happy Easter! And on the 19th Day of #VerseLove25, the Challenge Came to Me: A Food Poem about Location, Taste, and Memory. No Brainer.

A Fun Day 17 #VerseLove25 Prompt: Use Google to Do a Search and Take Down All the Suggestions It Offers & See What Poem Might Be Created Thursday (yesterday), was a healing day...time to clean, time to grade, time to reflect, time to plan, and time to organize. This is what co...

A Fun Day 17 #VerseLove25 Prompt: Use Google to Do a Search and Take Down All the Suggestions It Offers & See What Poem Might Be Created

Writing an Etheree, Philosophically, on the 16th Day of #VerseLove25. I Will Always Be a Fan of a Syllabic Challenge (Especially When I See the Art) Phew. The Connecticut temperatures are doing their best to keep winter air hanging onto the outdoor world. I see the temperatures climbing u...

Writing an Etheree, Philosophically, on the 16th Day of #VerseLove25. I Will Always Be a Fan of a Syllabic Challenge (Especially When I See the Art)

Beetlejuiced! On the 15th Day of April, #VerseLove25, the Task was to Focus on Nature & Colors (But, I Had My Hair Trimmed, So...Well...My Mind) Oof. Returned late last night from a graduate class, spent most of the day preparing for it, and attending the Humanities Fellows research s...

Beetlejuiced! On the 15th Day of April, #VerseLove25, the Task was to Focus on Nature & Colors (But, I Had My Hair Trimmed, So...Well...My Mind)

As the 13th Day of #VerseLove25 Call For: Remembrance. Not Only of the Armenian Genocide but for a Colleague & Friend I had the great fortune to attend the celebration of Dr. Jason Courtmanche, UCONN-Storrs and fellow director of CWP, and to head the reflect...

As the 13th Day of #VerseLove25 Call For: Remembrance. Not Only of the Armenian Genocide but for a Colleague & Friend

Weekends are for Grading, I Guess (Until Exhausted Eyes Begin to Water & You Can't See), But I Hit the #VerseLove25 Challenge, Day 12. All Is As It Should Be. I really had one major goal for this Saturday...to get caught up on grading so I can plan on Sunday before going to a celebration of life fo...

Weekends are for Grading, I Guess (Until Exhausted Eyes Begin to Water & You Can't See), But I Hit the #VerseLove25 Challenge, Day 12. Onward.

On the 9th Day of #VerseLove25 Was an "If You Knew Me Then" Poem, to Explore the Varying Stages of the Lives We've Lived Phew. Meetings are something and this morning I am off to schools to do National Poetry Month activities (all in preparation for authors sti...

On the 9th Day of #VerseLove25 Was an "If You Knew Me Then" Poem, to Explore the Varying Stages of the Lives We've Lived. Happy Thursday

Take a Saying from a Grandparent or Parent & Explore the Story in a Poem, #Day7 of #VerseLove25, and Lucky to Write/Learn with @DariusPhelps Darius Phelps introduced #VerseLove25 to poet,  Kyle Liang’s  Good Son ,  where we were to take a piece of advice or parental commentary and...

Take a Saying from a Grandparent or Parent & Explore the Story in a Poem, #Day7 of #VerseLove25, and Lucky to Write/Learn with @DariusPhelps #GoodSon

Written on a Monday, but Posting on a Tuesday (But Isn't Every Day Monday Now?). #Day7 #VerseLove25. The Challenge of a Villanelle It's hard to enter on a Monday, when there's a blur of Friday to Sunday where one has to work to maintain the work (even required to be on c...

Written on a Monday, but Posting on a Tuesday (But Isn't Every Day Monday Now?). #Day7 #VerseLove25. The Challenge of a Villanelle

Loved Dave Wooley's 4th Day Poetry Prompt to Travel a Little and to Write From What We've Seen (I Miss My Neighbors and Friends, Immensely) #VerseLove25 I have to head to campus. Yes, I know it's a Saturday, but the high school hours have slowly crept into higher education and the demands con...

Loved Dave Wooley's 4th Day Poetry Prompt to Travel a Little and to Write From What We've Seen (I Miss My Neighbors and Friends, Immensely) #VerseLove25

And On The Third Day of #VerseLove25, the Challenge Was to Steal the Rhyme Scheme & Words of Another. I Also Lied. I Labored Yesterday, So No Day Off. cultivatedcrandall.blogspot.com

3x3x3. Thankful of Leilya Pitre for her 2nd Day Prompt of Tricubes (for Spring). I Love the Brevity, Rhythm, and Precision of this Poetic Style It's cold, but the sneezing season is upon us. I went to campus and attended a dis/ability simulation hosted by a junior. Trip, who created ...

3x3x3. Thankful of Leilya Pitre for her 2nd Day Prompt of Tricubes (for Spring). I Love the Brevity, Rhythm, and Precision of this Poetic Style #VerseLove25

April Brings Tremendous Firsts, Including Day One of Poetry with #VerseLove25, and a Wonderful Opportunity to Be a Student Summit Keynote I have only a few brain cells left this morning and I'm using them to write a post. Dear Shaun, I knew in 2011 when you arrived to the summe...

April Brings Tremendous Firsts, Including Day One of Poetry with #VerseLove25, and a Wonderful Opportunity to Be a Student Summit Keynote