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Poetry Friday: Steeped in Poetry

October 20, 2023 /
 
Bridget Magee at wee words for wee ones is the host this week. Hop on over there for the roundup. 
 

Steeped in Poetry

 
I didn’t get to post last week because I’ve been fighting some illness (not COVID) for the past few weeks. I was basically going to work and sleeping. I’m much better, thankfully! Luckily, I’ve been able to squeeze in some poetry learning. Even though I wrote poetry in graduate school, I still feel like there’s so much I don’t know, so I’m always looking for ways to stretch myself. 
 

Poet’s Studio

In September, I took a class with Georgia Heard and Rebecca Kai Dotlich’s Poet’s Studio on “The Poetry of Things.”
 
I always love a deep dive into a specific kind of poetry. I wrote three poems that I think are revisable for this class. Then the Nevermores and I wrote object poems for our weekly prompt last week.
 

The Rhyme Comes Last

This week, I was able to join into NE SCBWI’s Virtual Shop Talk and Poetry Friday’s own Matt Esenwine did a talk about understanding your subject in poetry. It really gave me a new way to approach my poems and dovetailed nicely with my new learning on object poems.
 

Haiku of the Week

 
spider hides—
hazy web masks her presence
to flyersby
 
Photo Taken: June 20, 2023 at Ashby Pond Conservatory
Haiku Written: August 4, 2023

 

Haiku Moments Playlist

 
 
 
 

What I’m Reading

 
by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell
Charlesbridge, 2023
 
I’ve been excited to read this novel-in-verse ever since Traci told me about it at ALA in 2022. Charles also talked about it at our Highlights workshop. This is a wonderful middle grade novel-in-verse about a much needed topic. I’ve already started recommending it to teachers.
 

What I’m Noticing

 
I haven’t been able to take my walks for almost two weeks, so I haven’t been noticing much. But these gorgeous flowers have been blooming for weeks in a shady spot, and in a time when all of my favorite flowers are gone, it’s lovely to see some flowers thriving in fall.

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