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I Don’t Know
It's Poetry Friday!Our friend Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge hosts us this week! Please join us!Last week, the Nevermores crafted poems inspired by a recent Maggie Smith substack post. Smith's prompt was built around the power of naming. We wrote of the natural...
SPIRITUAL JOURNEY: I Don’t Know
So many I-don’t-knows! Everyday there is some new sight, some new factoid, some new trigger for my I-wonders. Here are today’s:I don’t know why robins sing before the dawn, and then yield the field of skysong to the chickadee and junco and warbler. I wonder if they...
Alpenglow
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. Jan at bookseedstudio hosts this week's round! Join us! Does this happen to you? I stumbled across a line in a poem that sounded like a beautiful strike line for a golden shovel. And then I read a question in a blog...
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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