Looking for a topic to write about? Post A Day ideas not inspiring you? Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet should get your creative juices flowing. If nothing else, reading the letters will have you seriously thinking about your blogging practice. I've excerpted a few passages to build today's post around. "Draw near to... 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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