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Sunday (Sundae) Thoughts

I saw this on Joshua Becker's Becoming Minimalist blog and had to share--  (Joshua has a great blog, btw, for anyone interested in Simplifying their life...

many years ago, a 10-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. he caught the eye of the waitress and asked, "how much is an ice cream sundae?""fifty cents," the waitress replied. the boy reached into his pockets, pulled out a handful of change, and began counting. the waitress frowned impatiently...

WINNERS!! - From the Great Poetry Book Giveaway!

First, let me thank all of you who participated either by hosting a poetry giveaway on your blog or by entering these contests. My hope with this project was to share our work as well as our favorite poets with each other. Even if you didn't win, I hope you found a new blog to follow, a new poet to look into, or just realized the amount of incredible poetry that is out in the world, many by authors we haven't discovered yet.



Now, with all that said, let's get to the WINNERS! and I have a ...

What You Don't See Behind the Poem...

So I've been thinking about Fuzzmail (www.fuzzmail.org... a site that records everything you write, your first thought and what you delete or change.



Here's a visual poem for you, based on revision vs. first thought.  It plays with that idea on how wording things differently can create certain images of people or events.  I am always interested in "appearances" vs. "real life" or "real people/real families."



So here's a look at a love letter on what was thought, and what was actually s...

A Poem Being Born

So I've always wanted to do this, record a new poem being typed out from my mind to paper--well, in this case, from mind to computer.



I found this website called Fuzzmail that does just that, it records whatever you type in the message and when you send it to someone they can see your entire message from start to finish---including typos you fixed, what you deleted, what you changed, what you moved around.



I decided to do this for you for the last day of National Poetry Month and NaPoWri...

Welcome to the Last Day of National Grilled Cheese Month! (Also, National Poetry Month too, incase you missed it.)

If you're a Lunatic on Bulbs:



If you live in NY & you love (or like) Emily Dickinson and/or gardening I just read about this--



Emily Dickinson once called herself a "a Lunatic on Bulbs," referring to her passion for daffodils, hyacinth and other spring perennials, which she raised indoors in winter in her family home in Amherst, Mass. And a lunatic she probably seemed to neighbors who spied her gardening by moonlight on summer evenings in the flower beds behind the house. . .





"Emily...

National Poetry Month - It Came from the 80's...

Now that's it's the end of NaPoWriMo:

Writing Day with Marty

Martha Silano took the ferry over yesterday for some quality writing time in the poetry barn (aka my writing shed).



5+ hours just FLEW by.  I could not believe when it was time for her to take the ferry back home.



The hardest writing exercise we did was a sonnet exercise.  Marty's was really coming along, mine included Cher and was a little funky.



What we looked like when we began...











What we looked like after 5 hours of poetry writing and talk!

(Oh the book I'm holding up...

Oliver de la Paz Finished Off National Poetry Month

A poem by Oliver de la Paz featured in the Seattle Times! Congrats Ollie!
Read it here--
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2011728551_poetry29.html?prmid=head_more

For the Love of Books

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99 Year-Old Poet Rediscovers Writing, Reading with iPad

I thought this was a sweet story.



You can read the whole article here, but there's also a video below of Virginia learning to use the iPad.