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April 7, 2021
Gratitude
Join me each Wednesday for this virtual reading experience as I read a selection from Redefined: A Year of Poetry. By the end of the year, I will have read 52 of the 366 poems contained in this collection. I encourage you to subscribe to this blog in order to […]
April 6, 2021
Poem of the Week: “The Road Not Taken”
In the canon of my memory, “The Road Not Taken” crossed my path when I was in junior high. I remember creating a colored-pencil drawing of that “yellow wood.” It might even be hidden in the “undergrowth” of my personal memorabilia in my basement. This time in my life was […]
April 5, 2021
Poet of the Week: Robert Frost
As the idea for this Poetry Month blog series emerged, the first poet I knew I wanted to feature was Robert Frost. Frost is one of my favorite authors who has influenced my writing, reading, and home education teaching. For this post, I will focus on the reasons why I […]
April 3, 2021
Books of the Month: February 7-April 4
In all fairness, I have to admit that I didn’t get as much reading done in February as I had hoped. That means that this list of books combines the months of February and March along with the first few days of April. Dearly by Margaret Atwood: Five Stars I […]
April 2, 2021
Poetic Life Themes: Lilacs
Whenever I think of lilacs, I think about the story my father told me that is depicted in my poem “The Lingering Scent of Eternal Junes.” Lilacs rarely bloom as early as April where I live, unlike T. S. Eliot’s home state of Missouri. (I lived in Missouri during my […]
April 1, 2021
March 31, 2021
Genius
Join me each Wednesday for this virtual reading experience as I read a selection from Redefined: A Year of Poetry. By the end of the year, I will have read 52 of the 366 poems contained in this collection. I encourage you to subscribe to this blog in order to […]
March 29, 2021
March 26, 2021
Checking Facts: In Life and Writing
After spending an afternoon with my mother, I came home with a baggie filled with sepia and black-and-white photographs. These were only a fraction of the photos we sorted through with my intended purpose. I needed to find a few photographs for my art journal, and I had decided to […]
March 24, 2021
Fact
Join me each Wednesday for this virtual reading experience as I read a selection from Redefined: A Year of Poetry. By the end of the year, I will have read 52 of the 366 poems contained in this collection. I encourage you to subscribe to this blog in order to […]
