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Poetry Friday: A roundel

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  The challenge from Tricia this week at The Miss Rumphius Effect was to write a roundel. I didn’t have time to do this, but I also didn’t do last week’s macaronic verse challenge. So Wednesday night, while I was at a ski trip meeting with my daughter, I was sitting there trying to block […]

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Seed Sower, Hat Thrower: Poems About Weather

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  Here’s the next book in my series of 6 Capstone poetry books. After the fall poems, I headed into the weather batch of photos. This group was full of more stunning images. I was so glad I got to start with two subjects–autumn and weather–that really appealed to me. I love pictures of nature, […]

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Poetry Friday: Seal Lullaby

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I’m so tired! It’s been a busy week, and as I was thinking about what to post for Poetry Friday, I thought about sleep! So I started to search the Poetry Foundation website, but then realized that one of my favorite poems is a lullaby, so why not share that? Seal Lullaby Oh! Hush thee, my baby, […]

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Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights: Poems about Fall

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I’m continuing on here with chatting about each of my 6 Capstone poetry books. Today, I wanted to share a little bit about Shrinking Days, Frosty Nights, the very first book I wrote for this series.  I chose this topic, out of the six topics, as my first manuscript to work on because I absolutely love […]

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Science Songs: Do You Know Your ABCs?

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A  bit back, I told you about my science songs project. It’s my latest work for hire assignment, and it sounds like a lot of fun. All I had at that point was the general assignment–no topics or songs yet. But last week, I received my series guidelines and my four topics. I can’t share […]

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Poetry Friday: Tiny Dreams, Sprouting Tall: Poems about the United States

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Last night, the friendly UPS man brought 2 heavy boxes to my door, and they were the author copies of 4 more of my 6 Capstone poetry books. Woop! Woop! I now have copies of all of them except Flashy, Clashy, and Oh-So Splashy. So, as promised (or threatened!), I’ll be sharing a little of my […]

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My Two Centos’ Worth

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OK, it’s only one cento, but it feels long! Miss Rumphius challenged us to a modified cento this week, using titles of favorite books. I chose mostly some of my favorite poetry books, from this year and years past. There are a couple I only chose for the title, but mostly these are books I love. What […]

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Poetry Friday: A William Carlos Williams Poem

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Yesterday, I went cross-country skiing for the first time. Although I mainly concentrated on set, push, glide, I did get to admire the gorgeous winter scenery. We’re having a snowy winter in Minnesota this year (although we need a fresh snowfall, please), and I love looking at bare trees and evergreen trees against the snow. I never get tired […]

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And Then There Were Eight: Poems About Space

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  I wanted to blog just a little bit about each of my Capstone poetry books as I get my author copies. Each had its own joys and challenges (some more so than others!). I shared my basic process in an earlier post. Here are a few tidbits just about this title. Then There Were […]

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My Capstone Poetry Books!

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I am so excited! Last week I started getting author copies of my 6 poetry books for Capstone Press. I’ve only gotten one of the six so far, because the others are backordered. But soon, I hope! Please note: All blog posts prior to December 2011 were originally in LiveJournal and I imported them here. […]

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