Just For Fun Friday 04/18/2014
Computers are both a boon and a bane to us writers. If I had to hand-write everything I….well, I wouldn’t. For one thing, my handwriting is horrible, even when it’s fresh. By the end of the first few paragraphs or verses, not even the best cryptographers in the world could decipher it. In addition, I can’t imagine […]
Favorites
What’s your favorite poem? Who’s your favorite poet? For a 65 year old lady, my favorite poem is silly. It’s The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. The poem evokes childhood memories, and was one of the first poems I ever made an effort to commit to memory. However, my favorite poet is Robert […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/11/2014
Does this happen to you? It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, and here I sit at my computer, playing with an idea that came to me about an hour ago. Often the ‘middle of the night’ thoughts are jotted down on a notepad on my bedside table (don’t we all have one?) and I go […]
Poetry Month Trivia
In 1997, our two year old writers’ group was asked by the local library to host a community poetry reading during National Poetry Month (April) in participation with Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project. We were delighted, and students and faculty members from Harding University participated, as well as our members and the general public. The […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/04/2014
It’s Poetry Month!!! Dear Carl Sandburg… You wrote of fog on ‘little cat feet’ with a different breed in mind. The three young cats that stay with me have feet of a larger kind. At night my house is full of noise […]
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