Cat got your tongue?

Despite my best intentions, I didn't get quite as much poetry posted as I would have liked this month. I'm crunched between a couple of work deadlines, making progress novel drafting...

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Poetic patches in prose

Faith Elizabeth Hough tagged me for the "Lucky Seven" meme, in which I post seven paragraphs from page 77 of one of my manuscripts. I hope you'll pardon the fact this is actually...

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Anywhere and everywhere: Found Poetry

Every writer cobbles personal experiences with cultural influences and imagination. To write is to borrow. Today, as part of my National Poetry Month series, I'd like to look...

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Forgotten greats: Hopkins and sound sense

Gerard Manley Hopkins is something of a poster-boy for misunderstood artists and "born out of time" poets. Now considered one of the greats of the Victorian era, none of his best-loved...

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Speaking out for the Silent

Many think of poetry as being uniformly introspective--about sensations and feelings. But some poetry has a far larger agenda. Activist poetry seeks to give voice to the voiceless,...

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Sad goodbye

My weekend took a rather tragic turn. The beautiful stray cat we took in last May to be my daughter's kitty passed away.We learned last summer that Rosie had feline leukemia and...

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Handling the holy

Poetry has long been the favored genre for delving into spiritual topics. Poetry comprises a portion of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures (Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and...

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Taking shape

As part of National Poetry Month, I'm continuing my series on the wild, wonderful world of poety. Today I thought I'd talk about a type of formal poetry [adhering to a defined...

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The cruelest month?

April has arrived and I know many of my pals are blogging ah to zed (ja, Buchstaben are way cooler auf Deutsch). I tip my hat to you all. But as fun as it sounds, I can't commit...

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