Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Inspiration – SMITH BLUE
This is the final week of National Poetry Month. I have immersed myself in the work of Camille T. Dungy, first reading SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. I then turned to her 2017 poetry collection, TROPHIC CASCADE. This last week, I am reading SMITH BLUE, an...
2024 Progressive Poem – Final Stretch!
The Progressive Poem is collaborative kidlit poetry in action! What began as a dreamy, skyward looking couplet has transformed into a narrative journey of migration, sibling love, and care. Where will this journey end?2024 Progressive Poem cradled in stars, our planet...
NPM – Last of Trophic Cascade
My response poems to Dungy's TROPHIC CASCADE contain some climate anger. But sprinkled among these are some forays into personal experiences (that have nothing to do with climate). Part of this exercise has been to let the prompts lead me wherever it is they want to...
About Patricia Franz
Published poet & kidlit writer
cultivating joy and inspiring
a long, loving look at the real.
Craft Work & Street Creds
Contests/Participant
PB Party 2023 Honorable Mention
National Poetry Month 2023, 2022
PoetryFriday! Click on the link for my poetry!
#50PreciousWords 2022, 2021 Honorable Mention
KidLit Vibes 2022 Honorable Mention
Education
M.A. Theology / Children’s Spiritual Development
Memberships
Member SCBWI-AZ since 2020
Member Inked Voices since 2021
12x12 Picture Book Challenge - since 2021
Courage to Create - The Writing Barn since 2022
Emeriti Trustee, The United States Association of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGSUSA)
Courses & Conferences
LYRICAL LANGUAGE LAB (Renee LaTulippe)
Andrea Brown Literary Agency (ABLA) Big Sur 2021
Writing Barn: Non-Fiction Beyond Fact Flinging (Heather L. Montgomery)
SCBWI & Smithsonian Institution Online Non-Fiction Workshop
Stanford Continuing Studies: Writing for the Youngest Audience: Little Children, Big Emotions (Lynn E. Hazen/Elissa Haden Guest)
Highlights Foundation: The Art of Giving & Receiving Critique (Erin Dionne)
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