Happy Poetry Month, Day #2. For Poetry Month this year, I am writing a tip a day on my experience with being an Indie Author and Publisher. I received the second proof copy of my upcoming book release: Picture Perfect Poetry, An Anthology of Ekphrastic Nature Poetry for Students. It looks great and should be…
It’s National Poetry Month! What better way to celebrate poetry than to release a book of poems? That’s how I plan to celebrate this month! My upcoming anthology Picture Perfect Poetry: An Anthology of Ekphrastic Nature Poetry For Students will be published later this week (hopefully)! Last week, the authors included in the book got…
Happy Poetry Friday, Friends! This week saw considerable progress on the upcoming new anthology Picture Perfect Poetry: An Anthology of Ekphrastic Nature Poetry For Students. In fact, I should be ready to send it in for a proof copy today! I am so excited that this project came together. The book is beautiful! Thank you…
Poetry First On the last day of our vacation, we hiked to Mermaid’s Chair. You can read about it in this Medium.com (click Medium.com) article from last week. The following is the poem inspired by this place. Mermaid’s Chair An outcrop of rockOverlooking the seaAnd the ocean as far as One can see. Turquoise Caribbean…
This will be a short post but I wanted to update you all on a few things. Unfortunately, I do not have any poetry for you but I do have poetry-related news. We got back from our vacation at 2:30 a.m. last night. We’re still in the Twin Cities and have a three-hour drive in…
Happy Poetry Friday! The round-up today is hosted by Tracey Kiff-Judson on her blog: Tangles & Tails. Thanks for hosting Tracey! I didn’t intend to post today but here I am. It’s been an odd few weeks. I’m tired, as I’ve not been sleeping well – so expect this post to be all over the place….
My sister-in-law gifted me this poetry book for Christmas. She bought it in Italy when she was there with our son in October. The book has poems in both English and Italian – side by side inside. She knows I’ve been trying to learn Italian using various apps. I’m currently using Babble now. I used Duolingo…
I figured I would write a Poetry Friday post this week because I’ve missed posting to a couple of them. Janice Scully is our host this week on her blog Salt City Verse. Please visit her page for her poem about Democracy and some Christmas Cheer as well. Janice will be one of the featured…
It’s Poetry Friday! Again! Where is the time going?! I had no plans to post today as I’m working on a travel article for Medium and it’s taking longer than I thought it would. But I saw a shout-out early this morning from Lou Piccolo who shared that two authors who followed her newsletter and…
Good Day! It’s Poetry Friday! Today’s round-up is brought to us by Karen Edmisten and her same-named blog. She posted some great autumn-themed media from the past. Be sure to check it out. Thanks, Karen! I’ve been mired down in several projects. I am finishing a National Park quilt for our oldest son. He turned…