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#PoetryFriday: Yet the River Flows On

#PoetryFriday: Yet the River Flows On

     Inspired last month by #PoetryFriday poet Catherine Flynn's example, I played this week with a "golden shovel" form.  A golden shovel poem takes a line from another poem or text and uses each word in that line as the end of a line in a new poem.       I hope...

#50PreciousWords 2022

#50PreciousWords 2022

Each year, author Vivian Kirkfield hosts a delightful contest for #kidlit writers. The #50PreciousWords 2022 Contest challenges us to write a story - with beginning, middle, and end -- in 50 words or less.  Vivian channels esteemed author Jane Yolen with the...

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