Lots of big doings here this week. 1) We have a new dog at our house, and some new rules in place for the fourteen-year-old (and for me). 2) I emailed my novel manuscript to my agent. The last time I did this, I didn’t hear back for a month, then I was asked (very […]
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world. And I’d like a […]
At POETRYisEVERYTHING, for Day 29 of National Poetry Month, Chris Jarmick assigned a house remodel poem. He also made some lovely, encouraging comments about the challenge to write a poem a day this month, for instance: “And if you’ve paid a little more attention to poetry during our month long sharing of prompts and writing […]
Here’s a thumbnail portrait of today’s process… I tried to take seriously Chris Jarmick’s assignment for day 28, to “translate” a poem into English from a language I don’t know. I found a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and printed it out. I carried it around. I don’t know German, but I thought I […]