Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
G is for Golden Shovel
30 Poems in 30 Days with 30 FormsRules for a Golden Shovel (from Writer's Digest) Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire. Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem. Keep the end words in order. Give credit to the poet who originally wrote...
F is for Fibonacci
30 Poems in 30 Days with 30 FormsA Fibonacci is... ...a six-line poem with the syllable count1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It was created by Gregory K. Pincus. Most recently, the form is spotlighted in a very fun poetry anthology TWO TRUTHS and a FIB, edited by the fabulous...
Do This In Memory of Me
It’s 1965. I’m 6 years old. It’s Good Friday. What I know: There will be fish for dinner. Again. Yuck. We will go to church in the middle of the day, having gone the night before, and knowing Easter Sunday mass looms, too. At least Lent will be over soon,...
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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