 Mary Lee Hahn has Poetry Friday today. I am keeping short and sweet today. Yestersday I sent my WIP to a poet-author for a manuscript review. I've taken a couple of classes with her and I am thrilled for her to read the newest revision. Today, I brought a friend up to the library in Welches, OR to see "Far Flung Places" This is my statement about the exhibit: "Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown." ~ Anthony Bourdain In 2020, I was preparing to travel to Ireland and Japan. Covid hit. We rescheduled to 2022. Last summer, I visited Japan with my eldest grandchild. "Far Flung Places", highlights the unknown teetering places where I felt a deep connection. Each piece is paired with a poem.
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Heidi at my juicy little universe is hosting our weekly poetry fest. She will be sharing the next line for this year's progressive poem.
First off, apologies for neglecting hosting duties last week by not visiting your posts. I plan to correct that after this post. Also, if you are on the Wordpress platform, Wordpress hated me. I can never get my comments to post. I have changed my password so many times! Next week is the end of semester at Texas Woman's University. It's been a great year. I am especially happy to have worked with Heidi Bee Roemer with the midterm project. My students have successfully submitted their work to Heidi's Steamed Power Poetry Contest. Please take a moment to enjoy these videos. Mariana V.: At The Pet Shop by Heidi Bee Roemer. Clarissa R.:Welcome to the Science Lab by Heidi Bee Roemer Sierra B.: Name That Seed! by Heidi Bee Roemer Aisha L.: Ode to the Washing Machine by Rebecca Kai Dotlich Victoria T.: My New Remote by Ken Nesbitt Note: The static audio at the beginning is intentional. Jaime A: Ms Quito Bandito by Heidi Bee Roemer Brandi B: Computer Tutor by Charles Ghigna Jeanne-Marie M: Ghazel For the Sky.mp4 by Mary Lee Hahn Samantha M: E-Reader! E-Reader! By Heidi Bee Roemer Minerva R: Time is Winning by Janet Wong Sarah S: The Blue Whale by Heidi Bee Roemer Marcie at Marcie Flinchum Atkins is hosting Poetry Friday. It was exciting to see her new book which I promptly ordered s signed copy. I love her poetry project for April. I'm planning to write to a prompt a day and also work on completing the revision of my manuscript during poetry month. Here's a sneak peak of the DAY 1 prompt for April 1: CHASE.  National Poetry Month Activities For National Poetry Month, I am hosting a Pop-up poetry/writing event: Writing for a Shared World of Poetry, Saturday, April 5, 2025. 11 AM-12:30PM (EST), 8 AM-9:30 AM (PST) I held a writing event in January and it was lovely. I plan to share prompts, write for a bit, and share. You can sign up here. https://forms.gle/t6pxoWdUGhQ5MYrK7 2. Two Interviews: Matt Forest and Shirley Thacker 3. Two Video Fridays, featuring the poetry projects of my TWU students. 4. writing to the prompts below.  Graphic © Amber Fleek Rose at Imagine the Possibilities is hosting today and focusing on the joy of spring. Today is a mish-mash of poetry life. 1. I finished All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson. It's a powerful story of friendship and loss. Watson recently won the CYBILS Poetry Award for Black Girl, You are an Atlas. 2. I am excited to share the poems videos my TWU students have been creating for their midterm for their class. I'll be sharing them on this blog in April. 3. One of my favorite poems that I associate with Martha and spring is Who Has Seen the Wind? BY Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. 4. Susan Blackaby and I are hosting a "Spill the Poetry" Class at my local tea shop, Cup of Tea in April. We'll follow it with a poetry reading on May 3 there. 5. I'll be writing short poems for National Poetry Month using the Verse of Ages Word Prompts (will post below) 6. I'm hosting a Poetry Pop-Up Writing Event on Saturday, April 5, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST. See the below link to sign up.  POETRY POP-UP WRITING MEET UP On April 5, 2025, you're invited to write with me 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST. A group of us gathered on January 18, 2025 and had a wonderful time writing and sharing. If you want to join me on April 5, you can sign up here: Writing for a Shared Poetry World  Graphic © Amber Fleek
Janice at Salt City Verse has a lot of poetry goodies to share on her blog. I concur with her that Laura Shovan's February poetry challenge kept me writing all month. The prompts shared by the group took me in surprising places.
On Wednesday, I was enjoying morning coffee and my former school texted me, 'can you sub, it's an emergency?" It was a day that I didn't have plans and it worked out to jump in. The plans were emergency written with the topic "art/writing". I hadn't thought to bring any poetry lessons. I went to Georgia Heard's website and perused the Heartmaps and decided to do the belonging heart. 
Start of National Poetry Writing Month with a Write-In
On April 5, 2025, you're invited to write with me 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST.
A group of us gathered on January 18, 2025 and had a wonderful time writing and sharing. If you want to join me on April 5, you can sign up here: Writing for a Shared Poetry World Denise at Dare to Care is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She's offering up "Liberty" as a word she'd like to keep and it's an important post. I am planning on participating in the Economic Blackout for Friday, February 28. We will visit our personal favorite, women owned tea shop for a cuppa. Speaking of locally owned, a few weeks ago, I visited Florence, OR with family. Florence is a coastal town with a fabulous row of shops. There I found The Brass Bell, a 3 week old bookstore. @thebrassbell. I saw this book, A Poem for Every Winter Day, edited by Allie Esiri. She's new to me and I love finding new anthologists. I purchased the book, and the owner packaged it up in a brown bag with a little brass bell.  The book has a poem starting on December 1 through February 29 (for those Leap Year Days).   Linda at TeacherDance is providing a love filled theme for Poetryland. I have the late but still so important CYBILS Poetry Winner news. Confession: I was up to my eyebrows in prepping the midterm for TWU and thought, I can skip Poetry Friday. This morning (Saturday) I realized, nope I must share the great CYBILS news! I was on the first judging panel and it was a privilege to select the finalists. Below the winners' reveal are the finalists ICYMI. Honestly, all the finalists are truly winners but thrilled that they were selected for this year.     SAVE THE DATE We need more community!
Join me on Saturday, April 5, 11 AM-1PM EST (feel free to come for all or part) to kick off National Poetry Month. Details soon! This month's Spiritual Journey Thursday theme is Closing Doors Opening Doors | arjeha. And Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink who's invited us to share love. Both these themes are needed in the world at this moment. Bob offered this quote from Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” Most likely you have heard a shorten version of the quote. It seems that doors are closing for many and other doors people are waiting, uncertain that their door might close. This is what I have heard from friends this week, Some of their adult children with government jobs or ones that depend on federal funding are living, waiting for the shoe to drop. For me, it's hard to see that the door might close and another one will open for them. Carol shares this quote from a 1912 postcard: Love in all its complexity, is the ethereal beauty that resides within the human soul. I am feeling the heaviness of this week. My faith is being challenged. This is a little rambling that needs work, A found poem within the two quotes. Love wonders about the closing of doors because of your beliefs, your ethnicity, your job Love wonders what if we do not see the open doors because it took so long for them to reopen Love wonders when the human soul will take action and re-open the doors. ©jone rush macculloch Save the Date We need more community! Join me on Saturday, April 5, 11 AM-1PM EST (feel free to come for all or part) to kick off National Poetry Month. Details soon!
Jan at bookseedstudio is hosting all the poetry goodness. I don't know about you but I am so glad for this poetry community. I had quite the day yesterday (Wednesday, 29th) and I didn't post a Wordless Wednesday. I had intended and it didn't happen/ so I will combine the two.  Wordless Wednesday: Week 4 birthday dawn
branching out this year dreams exist ©jone rush macculloch, 2025 Happy Poetry Friday! Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference is hosting Poetry Friday. She has all sorts of goodness, especially the unveiling of her Brave Zine which you can read it online here. I feel lucky to have three poems in it. It's been a week, hasn't it? My weekend was a poetry filled one. Starting on Friday with a Zoom meeting with Kim Stafford to kick out the #StaffordChallenge. Then Saturday morning, I hosted a "Poetry for Persistence" for creatives. We had a chance to talk and write and share. It was wonderful to be in community with others. And I continued Saturday with another poetry project. Sunday was my third class with Joan Kwon Glass, an amazing poet who creates space for writing to fall out of you onto the page. Monday to avoid the television and to be in a sacred space, we drove to Wildwood. morning drive wildwood recreation we follow green glowy lichen paths, reach the river skip stones- we’ll persist ©jone rush macculloch, 7/365 SAVE THE DATEWe need more community! Join me on Saturday, April 5, 11 AM-1PM EST (feel free to come for all or part) to kick off National Poetry Month. Details soon!
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