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Mailbox Monday #730

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Virtual Poetry Circle: Robert Herrick

To Daffodils Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain’d his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray’d together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have […]

Poetry Play: Creating a Fill-in Poem

When creating poems, I often view it as play. Playing with words, phrases, images, etc. Isn’t this what we do as children? We often make games out of everything, and teachers are great at making learning fun. Today, let’s create a Fill-in poem. I’ll provide the phrase, and you provide the ending for each line. […]

The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras by Fran Abrams

Source: Purchased Paperback, 23 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras by Fran Abrams is a delight. If you love math or don’t, it won’t matter as Abrams’ wry wit and precise storytelling will tickle your humor bone. She espouses her love of Pythagoras and his math in the opening poem, […]

You Cannot Save Here by Tonee Moll

Source: Publisher Paperback, 84 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate You Cannot Save Here by Tonee Moll, winner of the Washington Writer’s Publishing House‘s 2022 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, opens with a quote from Ocatvia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which sets the stage for the whole collection. Moll’s poems are about every day moments […]

Guest Post and Giveaway: Handsome, Clever, & Rich by Jayne Bamber

Today, Jayne Bamber is back with a guest post and excerpt from her new novel, Handsome, Clever & Rich. Let’s check out a little bit about this tale: What if Elizabeth is not a Bennet by birth, but by marriage? When Netherfield Park is let at last, the village of Meryton is inveigled in romance, […]

Dear Selection Committee by Melissa Studdard

Source: ‎ Jackleg Press Paperback, 132 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Dear Selection Committee by Melissa Studdard is a poetry collection that will have you on your toes, make you gape in awe, and have you wishing you kept some of your own boldness on the surface. These are poems of empowerment. In the […]

Mailbox Monday #729

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Virtual Poetry Circle: Audre Lorde

Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face off the edge of my sleep blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders is the only […]

Magnetic Poetry Magic

I hope to provide some fun activities this month for you to think outside the box about poetry. Today, is magnetic poetry magic! I just love magnetic poetry tiles. You can put them on the fridge and let the magic happen. What is magnetic poetry? You can buy kits with words on individual tiles to […]