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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...
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