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Tag: poem
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Update on “Big Red Schoolhouse” . . . Judges’ comments!
Ok, so here are the lovely words the judges had to say about “Big Red Schoolhouse,” my poem that won the inaugural Magpie Poetry Award: Magpie Award Winner ‘Big Red Schoolhouse’ by Ace Baker “The poem in 1st place, ‘Big Red Schoolhouse, keeps us up to our elbows in the muck of the moment and the…
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Poetry from newspapers!
Well, after all our serious study of Cody Klippenstein’s amazing fiction, it’s time to take a bit of a break and take a lighter look at that daily newspaper that’s in your hands while you’re drinking your morning coffee… First, take a peek at what I did with one headline that I found…
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Golden Gloves to Wilder Soul
Ok, the symbolism task was NOT EASY yesterday, but one writer took the challenge head on and did a great job–connotation, symbolism, and allusion to show depth. The trouble is, I don’t know the NAME of this person, or where she’s from, but her (his?) pseudonym is… WILDER SOUL It’s 15:23 and I am…
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Poetry Week #005: Test Day!
Ok, it’s test day! The first task, if you haven’t done that already, is to read yesterday’s post about connotation, symbolism, and allusion in Lorna Crozier’s “Crossing Willow Bridge.” Your job today is to look at Karen Connelly’s “From My Father’s Hand,” and see what you can find. Objects and items and symbols abound. What…
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Poetry week #004: Crozier and symbolism
First, read this poem by Lorna Crozier quickly: CROSSING WILLOW BRIDGE On the farm a willow bridge though this is Saltspring Island not Japan. Sometimes it crosses water, sometimes not. This morning after rain the ground slides into mud. My mother and I tread our way to see the baby llama in the far…
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Tarina from New Zealand and her Cascade Poem
Our first Golden Gloves award goes to Tarina from New Zealand, who, on www.fighttowrite.com TODAY checked out what cascade poems are all about and wrote a GOOD one…TODAY! Here’s her poem, and a link to her site: Golden Gloves Winner TARINA the web finding out everything you ever knew everything you’d been told it was all…
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Poetry Week #002: Writing the Cascade Poem
THE CASCADE First, in order for me to discuss what a cascade poem is, let me show you one. “Woman on a Swing: Lions Park” is one of three poems that helped me win the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) poetry prize in 2012. It’s one I quickly showed poet Patricia Young over dinner…
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Poetry Week #001: Poem within a poem!
Time for some poetry! A poem can contain a great amount of meaning in a small space; it’s what separates us from the rest of the animals, someone once told me. And while I enjoy spoken word poetry, especially when it’s well done, there are some things you can do on a piece of…