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Poetry Friday: April 22
This week’s Poetry Friday host is at Reflections on the Teche. Haiku of the Week spring winds catch blossoms peel back their pale pink petals unveil hidden stars –Photo and Haiku by Marcie Flinchum Atkins What I’m Reading The Lost Language by Claudia Mills (Margaret Ferguson/Holiday House, 2021)…
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Poetry Friday: An Invitation to Learn about Collaboration
Matt at Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme is hosting Poetry Friday this week. Check his site for all of the links! Haiku of the Week Chinese paperbush stars in the sun-drenched garden yellow bursts of spring –Haiku and photo by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Photo taken at Enid A. Haupt…
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Poetry Friday: Macrophotography
Today’s Poetry Friday round up host is Janice at Salt City Verse. Macrophotography I’ve been trying to do more creative endeavors that don’t involve writing. I used YouTube to teach my left-handed self how to knit during the lockdown of the pandemic. I also started taking workshops on how…
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Poetry Friday: Pack a Bag
Pack a Bag As a writer with an outside full-time job and two kids, I have always had to carve out bit and pieces of time to write. I do have a dedicated time in the morning to write before I go to work. Now that my kids are…
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Poetry Friday: Analog Desk
This week’s Poetry Friday posts are hosted by Amy at The Poem Farm. Hop on over there to view all of the week’s posts. Analog Desk In December of 2020, I was still working from home. My school stuff had taken over my writing space. I needed a sacred…
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Poetry Friday: Field Notes in My Pockets
Today’s Poetry Friday is over at Ruth’s blog: “There is No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town.” One of my favorite tools as a writer are my Field Notes journals. They are small and lightweight and perfect for jotting down notes on the run. I have them in every…
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Poetry Friday: Walk and Talks
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup is over at Poetry for Children. I’m a big routine person. I know a lot of creatives who don’t write or create every day, but I tend to do better if I do. I noticed a few months ago that I loved my weekday routines,…
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Poetry Friday: Nature Journaling
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup is over at Kathryn Apel’s blog. Last year, I started exploring nature journaling. I’m not very good at drawing or painting. But I still wanted to try. No one needed to see my drawings, but I wanted to give it a go. I started with…
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Jumping Back in to Poetry Friday
It’s been years since I posted on Poetry Friday, a community of poets who post their poetry or about poetry each Friday. I’ve been working on writing poetry daily for about a year, so I’m going to attempt to share some of that here. I’ve also been sharing my…
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Chalk + Ink Podcast Extras
Recently, I was a guest on Chalk + Ink podcast with Kate Narita. It’s a podcast for teachers who write. If you aren’t subscribed, I highly recommend it. I’ve been listener for awhile, so it was an honor to be a guest. Link to the podcast episode I thought…
