Tag: poetry
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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June 17
I have found my LexPoMo rhythm which means that I now have several poems in my Google folder and could read and tweak before making my final choice to post Congregation this morning. The poetry that touched me on my quick pass through the feed (because work is pressing at my back):
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June 14
Hooray! 1914 has been fixed and I posted a poem that pleases me greatly so today is a banner LexPoMo day! I’ve been thinking about today’s post (Lack of Purchase) for days because The place where we are right is hard and trampled by Yehuda Amichai speaks so much to where we are today as…
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