Who better to speak to the joys of summer than a kid sprung from school! Coby Breen will be returning to the confinement of school next month. He is entering the seventh grade. He is also a talented goalie, training in elite programs and keeping penalty kicks off the scoreboard for his soccer club. The […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
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Special treat today from a vox poetica regular, Ray Sharp. Ray has great range; visit his site and see for yourself. This poem, different from the others, is an elegant, sensual word picture. The metaphor is perfection. When you read the words, you see the image and feel the tension in the story. So few words, […]
Yours Was the First Face
Kim Klugh lives in Lancaster PA with her husband. She is the mother of three grown children and a writer with credits in the Intelligencer Journal, BusinessWoman, “b” magazine, Susquehanna Life, Central PA Magazine, and Lancaster City Living. One of her essays will be included in the anthology, My Dad Is My Hero (Adams Media, […]
undiscovered
We’ve already discovered that Karen Schindler’s work is very visual (see Coming Home in the poemblog). Here we get to see some of her process: we have the image that inspired the poem! Read and look and find your own undiscovered image hiding in your world to write about. And then take a look at […]
In Memory of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937 in France. Wharton was an American writer whose specialty was charting the treacherous currents of elite society, the dynamics of money and class, the tension of the individual railing against the collective. She is associated particularly with early 1900s New York society as its era was ending. Her […]
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