broken promises
I look back to the beginning of the month to see what I have pledged in the name of “poetry month” and I feel disappointed. A poem a day for me is not realistic in light of all the other commitments I have made for my businesses and my self. It’s time to pull back. […]
read more→day 3 – following the moon
Sorting through my social media. Yikes! I have a blog (ok 2), a couple of Facebook business pages and a seldom used twitter account and maybe instagram. Hmm – thinking about the idea of “I’m not talking because I don’t have a lot to say”. And now thinking that is not true though […]
read more→poetry day 2
Two days in and I have written/almost written two poems. I am honoring my commitment to the writing but sometimes the writing falls short. Yesterday I “wrote” a poem while walking my dog. When I’m only walking one dog I have more flexibility to let my thoughts roam. I camed up with a few potential […]
read more→of poetry
April is poetry month. That phase is echoing over the internet and maybe a little attention is being drawn to the history of poetics. Search “history of poetry” and you will find many references to poetry pre-dating written language. It was often used as a tool to record events, tell stories and accompany music. It […]
read more→6 days later
Last Sunday I was fortunate to attend a poetry master class with Phil Hall called the Poetics of Sequence. Phil Hall was the 2011 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award for his collection of essay-poems Killdeer. Killdeer is a book I have not read but will be reading […]
read more→begin again
in the spirit of the solstice I am beginning “again”. I have come to realize that I cannot separate all that I am. To put the writer in one box and the artist in another. In essence I am a maker, one who makes. and sometimes I just write it out: endeavour no bravery here. […]
read more→a throng of poets
I am taking a free online course that currently has over 3000 people from all over the world participating. It’s called How Writers Write Poetry (put on by the University of Iowa) and it has me thinking deeply and putting more practice in my poetry writing practice. Then there is the “throng”. – an energetic, […]
read more→look, see
I accomplished a lot in April – my writer’s group anthology, some poem revisions, jotted down some new ideas to do with publishing, art making and writing. And even some paid work 🙂 There is a lot I didn’t do. I found other lists – full of inspiration and “try this”. Didn’t. But I will. […]
read more→processing & progressing
There’s been a lot happening lately and I haven’t written about it here. There are a lot of things I haven’t written about here. Partly it is because I am a private person and an introvert – but I have realized (more than once) that if I want to share my work, if I want […]
read more→Almost Ready
In my hand – the Sooke Writers’ Collective Anthology. I’m holding the proof. The interior “passed” and we altered the back cover and it is now at the printers. Tentatively it will be ready for the end of next week with plenty of time to plan our launch at the Sooke Rotary Fair on May […]
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