Author: Deanna
Maine
Our July 23 Write Across America stop was in Maine where we drew inspiration from sunrises and beaches, history and poetry, and beer and blueberries. I wrote about the echoes of history and its implications for today, the great-grandfather I never knew, and being well-rounded then later about the perils of unintended consequences (and not…
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New Mexico
Our July 16 Write Across America stop was in New Mexico where we drew inspiration from the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe who found home in the land of enchantment. I wrote about courage (or cowardice) and my struggle to live with a life choice that I made. My fellow rebel cartographers also wrote…
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Alabama
After our July 2 stop in South Dakota, we enjoyed a number of writing inspirations drawn from Alabama on July 9. These invitations included exploring sacred ceremonies and joy, the boxes that life sometimes forces us into, sink holes, and so much more. If you want to join the Write Across America community sign up here. Visit…
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South Dakota
After a two-month break to allow everyone to wrap up the academic year, Write Across America kicked off its summer series with a wonderful stop in South Dakota where we discovered this state is so much more than Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, and Wall Drug. We explored sculptures, murals, historic sites, and sacred places through…
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2024 LexPoMo
LexPoMo is wrapped for 2024 and I am proud that I managed to post 16 poems drawn from my many writing journal pages filled by poetry writing with my students and the National Writing Project’s Write Across America (register here) which allowed me to come into the challenge with some poem drafts and ideas in my pocket. I am particularly…
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From Here to There
The Rebel Cartographers were hard at work all through National Poetry Month pulling together their selected poems for our 2024 anthology: From Here to There. Brought together by Write Across America, our writing is always heavily influenced by both place and movement as we document our journeys through life. That is the origin story of…
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June 28
This will be my penultimate LexPoMo offering and these final two poems will be devoted to this experience. I am worn down by life and work and am limping toward the end, but I am pleased with Amuse-Bouche even if it is a poem for the moment rather than the ages. Not sure I crafted…
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June 26
As the end of LexPoMo draws nigh I’m embroiled in the push-pull of life/work and poetry. I don’t have the time/energy to poet every day and yet there are still poems simmering in my notebook. Can I bring them to a boil in time? Today’s poem, Tadpoles, began simmering with my students in the fall…
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June 21
Today’s poem, Participation Trophy, pairs with Title Round. I hope to make a series but that will be a longer term project than June allows. Last night’s session with the Rebel Cartographers gave me two more poems although one is closer to completion than the other. I’ve got 12 poems logged in but doubt I…
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