The True Nature of Poetry
Just a short note, with one of the best quotations on Poetry I’ve ever run across… At the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat a couple weeks ago, I fell in love with a poem that Karen Honnold read at one of the evening sessions. Later I found it was from her chapbook, and she had only brought a copy to read […]
What’s In A Name? (Titles)
You know you’ve done it. Perused the shelves at a local book store, looking through hundreds of volumes, trying to choose one to take home. You might have picked up a couple because the covers were so attractive. But the titles? Meh. Ah, but the one you chose….what really made you look inside? You bet. […]
What’s in a Name? (Writers)
Do you write under a pen name? Here’s a few reasons for doing this: to write in different genres to remain fairly anonymous in your home town to keep stalkers away from your door to hide the gender of the author to write in a style not associated with your already well-known name to honor […]
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 […]
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