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Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She writes of seeds, writing and transformation. Today, I had the opportunity to guest teach in a fifth grade. We read from Winter Bees by Joyce Sidman and then wrote our own "deeper thinking" poems about winter. The class and I talked about trying to create a turn at the end of the pome. One student did a good job with it. Can you spot it? The students said I read the poem with a witchy voice.
You're Invited to Create a Classic Found Poem
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 © design, Amber Fleek Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She's sharing a found poem by her daughter and reminding us about patience versus kicking-butt.  Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko Monument. Saint Petersburg, Russia January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer .This week marks the unwanted anniversary of Russian invading Ukraine. Last Saturday, the interstate bridge over the Columbia River had many out in support of Ukraine with flags and signs. As one of the prompts of Laura Shovan's Poetry Travel, a different photo was shared about Russians honoring victims of from the January bombing. Sometimes the best I can do is to find a poem in the news. I found this article at Reuters. Found Poem from “Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead” Remembering the Dniro Dead laying flowers at the monument to Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko improvised memorials victims of a Russian missile attack people were still unaccounted One ribbon read "Forgive" universal human values compassion, goodwill, grief one way or another this shouldn't become normal ©2023, jone rush macculloch Invitation: April 14, 2023 Classic Found Poetry Palooza ©design, Amber Fleek and published Welcome to Poetry Friday. This week Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone is hosting and her post on winter trees has my heart. I agree they are mesmerizing. Today I'm sharing a found poem by Moe Phillips. Moe is a poetry friend. We've taken classes together and shared poems in a couple of books edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong(Pomelo Books). She's also been published by The Dirigible Balloon in Chasing Clouds edited by Jonathan Humble. These are just a few places that Moe's been published. Moe is the ingenious creator of The Feisty Beast. We have been chatting about the idea of found poetry using the "Classics" and how fun it would be to invite others to find a found poem within the pages of their favorite classic. Today I am sharing Moe Phillips found poem. Moby Meadow From Moby Dick- Chapter One “Loomings” -Herman Melville Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way. Mountains bathed in their hill-side blue, like a snow hill in the air. The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open. You wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies. And there they stand- miles of them. Take almost any path you please. Feel such a mystical vibration. Like a grasshopper in a May meadow. There is magic in it. Be content. Surely all this is not without meaning. ©, 2023 Moe Phillips You're Invited!On April 14, 2023, I will be hosting Poetry Friday. I would like to make it a Classic Found Poetry theme. You're invited to find a classic and create a found poem from its pages. I am listening and rereading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte for my found poem. I will create a pallet for us to put our poems on. I hope you'll be inspired and join Moe and me in creating a Classic Found Poetry Palooza.
Design: ©Amber Fleek Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink is hosting Poetry Friday along with sharing the wonderful exchange of New Year Postcards. Which is a co-inky-dink as I am sharing as well. (Just as a poem sunburst)  2023 Poetry Postcard Exchange for the New Year  Something I am curious(my 2023 OLW) about this year is what it feels like to submit more poems with intention. I am trying to live by the idea that if you never submit, you'll never get published. I discovered Southern Arizona Press recently which publishes several anthologies a year. They had a call for love poems and one of mine was accepted along with poetry friend, Moe Phillips. I also found out that another poem and two photos will be in the upcoming volume 13 of the Poeming Pigeon in the fall, 2023, And with submitting, you get those rejection notices. Which happened recently. Keep submitting is my mantra. If you follow Jane Yolen on social media, she frequently speaks of wins and rejections.
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