Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Poetry Friday: Throw the Dang Ball
We throw it deep into the trees. It takes her 48 ½ seconds to find it.
She climbs tree branches to reach balls
Poetry Friday: No Greater Love
No Greater Love when the fallen log becomes home, food, life for lichen, squirrel, ant, termite bite by bite bark to bare plank pulp revealed chips and pieces for hidden species resin seeps tree trunk weeps letting go of plans to...
Poetry Friday: Girl On a Bicycle
Girl On a Bicycle by Troy Garrison (1939) The blue-enameled body of the slender beast Is alive, with the pulse of movement, Between her thighs; Sunlight splashes from the wheels As she sends it through a brilliant puddle; Read the rest here ...
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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