Words and Music
At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat, speaker/writer/educator Charlotte Renk shared six things that she calls the Qualities of Effective Writing. One of them is MUSIC. She specifies repeated sound and structure, but often a poem or essay ‘sings’ to me in other ways. It seems to call to me, deep inside. I think this is the […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/24/2015
I’m at Lucidity Poetry Workshop/Retreat this week. It’s a fun event – if you aren’t here, why not? I was still in my ‘Going to Oz’ mindset, and wrote this on my way up to the workshop. Wanderlust I wish I really had a pair of Dorothy’s scarlet shoes. I’d click my heels […]
Off to Oz…
Now and then, while attending the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat, I’m tempted to paraphrase that quotation, “…We’re not in (Ar)Kansas any more…”. Indeed, late April in the Ozarks is a wonder – a natural sensory overload. Top that off with the mixture of characters that live and work in Eureka Springs, and it does get rather […]
Vive La Difference!
One of the most prominent observations made at the Lucidity Poetry Retreat last week was the diversity of talent that was present. Some of us write like Robert Service, some like e.e.cummings, some like Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, etc. There were approximately 40 poets in attendance, and the stylings were almost as varied. The minds […]
Just For Fun Friday 04/25/2014
Did you carry a poem in your pocket yesterday? Here at the Lucidity Poets Retreat, in Eureka Springs, AR, with the lovely Ozarks as a background, we didn’t have to…our group of 40-some-odd poets walked around all day with books and notebooks full of them. The Lucidity poets have created an anthology, called April in […]
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