Small Reads for Brighters Days
Shoot! I just realized I haven’t done this week’s Poetry Stretch from the Miss Rumphius Effect yet! It’s a photopoetry challenge this week–I love that! When I first glanced at the picture, I thought those were pigs on the ground. I’m relieved to see that they’re really yams. I decided to write a haiku about this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m participating in Miss Rumphius’ poetry stretch this week, and it’s a sonnet. I’m taking part in that same poetry challenge she mentions, and I could also use some sonnet practice. Since I haven’t written one in, you know, decades. What on earth have I gotten myself into? Anyway, I have a sister coming into town […]
Mary Logue is a award-winning Minnesota writer of adult novels, children’s novels, and poetry. She taught the very first class I took at the Loft Literary Center. Now she and her partner, National Book Award-winning Pete Hautman (how’s that for a powerhouse writing couple…geez!) live and sometimes write together (see their Bloodwater mystery middle grade series). Anyway, […]
I had heard of Mike Wohnoutka and seen several of his enticing, saturated-with-color books. But I don’t know if I had ever officially met him before a Children’s Literature Network event last year. Arthur Levine came to Minneapolis and sat down for a conversation with 30 or so local published authors and illustrators. Then most of us headed […]
So, I read about the double dactyl form of poetry on Kelly Fineman’s blog on Poetry Friday and decided to try one this weekend. I had never even heard of it! Yesterday, as my kids were were shopping for inappropriate Halloween costumes (who knew the devil wore such a short skirt?), I plunked myself down in […]
After posting Mary Oliver’s Alligator Poem last week, I decided to try my hand at writing a poem about my biggest fear. Alligators are a phobia of mine, but not something I really worry about here in Minnesota! I knew my greatest fear was bad news about one of my daughters. Horrible news from a […]
I grew up in Florida near a lake and I have many memories involving alligators. Not good memories. They terrify me. And before I was old enough to be terrified, I was in rather close proximity a few times. Never attacked or chased, but close proximity is close enough for me! They still evoke a […]
