Finally got around to "When I'm 84: The World Still Needs Ringo Starr" by Mark Leibovich. Collected mentor excerpts to write beside. Great #MentorText for biography writing and for music lovers! #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #MovingWriters docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I've made it to the end of #NationalPoetryMonth & met the goal of writing a poem each day in April. It meant making dedicated time VERY early in the AM to do this, but it was worth it! 🥳 🎉 #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting #WriteForYourLife #edusky
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We have arrived at the final day of #NationalPoetryMonth here is poem 30, written beside “In Memoriam” by Leo Dangel. ✍ 📓 📜 📝 💻 💕 #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting #WriteForYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
2nd to last day of #NationalPoetryMonth & I don't want it to end! Wait a sec... it doesn't have to! Today's poem memorializes a small something in my maternal memory to treasure in my heart #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting
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Only three days remaining in #NationalPoetryMonth and here is my 28th poem of 2025, written beside “A Drink of Water” by Jeffrey Harrison. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
April 27th! How is #NationalPoetryMonth almost over? Today's poem is dedicated to my voice teacher from Old Town School of Music in Chicago. She is still going strong all these years later! #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Day 26 of #NationalPoetryMonth & this was written beside “Taking a Walk Before My Son’s 18th Birthday” by Mary Elder Jacobsen. Made edits to it just now. Poetry revision = agency. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting
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Poem 25 of #NationalPoetryMonth was drafted beside Kooser's "Those Summer Evenings," but started w/ a quick write I did in 2021 in a summer writing group led by @heatherrocco.bsky.social #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Day 24 of #NationalPoetryMonth and I’m rounding the home stretch! This one was written beside “Those Summer Evenings” by Ted Kooser. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting
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23 days of #NationalPoetryMonth! Today's poem is about one of the pets I had as a child. It's modeled after "Lily" by Ron Koertge. Short and bittersweet: poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/day-... #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting
Day 22 of #NationalPoetryMonth & today's poem, "It Can Happen Like That" was written beside & gets its first line from “Everyday Grace” by Stella Nesanovich. Both open in the supermarket. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
3 weeks into #NationalPoetryMonth & today's #PoetryasPractice is about my worst Valentine's Day 🤣 drafted beside "After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day" by Susanna Lang. Holiday memories can prompt poems! #AmWriting #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
A full two thirds of the way through #NationalPoetryMonth! My poem for Day 20 is "Stone Fruit" and it also doubles as a cocktail recipe! 🍑🍹 #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Day 19 of #NationalPoetryMonth & today's poem evolved from a Golden Shovel poem in my notebook, using found words from "Empath" by Heather Swan. You never know where some words will lead! #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
It's Day 18 of #NationalPoetryMonth and this poem was written beside Natasha Trethewey's "Gathering." When we renovated our kitchen 4 years ago, it created space for moments like this one. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
🎶She was just 17 🎶 days into #NationalPoetryMonth & today's poem is anchored in one of those childhood memories that her family never lets her forget: a word she mispronounced as a kid 🤣 #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Happy Sweet Day 16 of #NationalPoetryMonth! Today's poem, "Living Will" is #Ecopoetry & TBH didn't realize it at first. But that's what working with @katebaker.bsky.social can do for a gal! #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Halfway through #NationalPoetryMonth today! I wrote today's poem "thanksgiving and rains finally come" after returning home from #CEL24 in Boston. It's a tiny homage to E.E. Cummings #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
We are a fortnight into #NationalPoetryMonth! Day 14 is a poem about one of my sisters, inspired by Renee Watson's poem "How Sisters Love." #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Lucky poem number 13 for #NationalPoetryMonth! This one was written beside and inspired by "The Pinewoods" by #MaryOliver #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
12 poems written for #NationalPoetryMonth and it's not cheaper by the dozen -- it's richer! Writing poems is a wellness practice I live by! Today's poem: "Family Portrait" #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
It's Day 11 of #NationalPoetryMonth & today's poem is a love letter to my husband, who discovered his deep curiosity for astronomy a few years ago. Written beside "Bread" by Richard Levine. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
One third of the way through #NationalPoetryMonth today and my 10th poem is a sonnet. Maybe not purely speaking. But it's 14 lines. And more Petrarchan perhaps than Shakespearean. But: poem! #WriteBesideThem #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Day 9 of #NationalPoetryMonth is looking fine! Sun forecasted today amidst all these April Showers. Today's poem, "Girl on the Hillside" was mined from a #WritersNotebook entry! #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Woke up thinking about poetry this morning. I cut my teeth on free verse and enjambment and the release of weird little emotions. Writing saved me then and saves me now. Check out a few of my poems for a dollar. payhip.com/b/Vij31
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It’s a 10K weekend! I’m smashing 5K words on my latest WIP both today and tomorrow! The cat has been brushed, fed, & watered. The crockpot is on, the kitchen has been cleaned. No excuses!
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