The weather has been changeable lately. One day sunny with clear, bright blue skies; the next overcast and rainy. I love going to the sea front and checking the ocean's reaction to the weather. Lately, it's been stormy, big waves rolling onto the shore, grabbing the pebbles, pulling them down the beach into the... Continue Reading →
Check it out! German Sounds Make for Great Sound Bites
Check out this podcast from The First Friday Contemporary Writer's Series of my friend Hillary Keel reading a poem in German -it offers some wonderful sound bites as she uses her throat and tongue to create those sounds not in the English language and so dominant in the German. You may remember I posted a... Continue Reading →
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Finding a Poem’s Geographical Location: Visual Mind-Mapping
Tag-surfing one windy day, I stumbled on the headline: "How to Create Visuals When All You Have Is Words." It got me thinking about making my poetry more visual, and not necessarily by arranging the words in unique patterns on the pages - something I did in my Aquathoughts collection mostly written over a period... Continue Reading →
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