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Link to the Emily Dickinson Reading May 7 at 6:30 pm EST

The Emily Dickinson Museum will be sponsoring a poetry reading on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.  Here’s a link to the Television Station:

 

https://amherstmedia.org/channel/15/schedule

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Emily Dickinson Museum Sponsors Poetry Reading May 7 at 6:30 pm (EST)

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst Massachusetts is sponsoring a poetry reading with some excellent poets. You can view this by going to the Amherst Media Website:

 

http://161.77.57.225/CablecastPublic

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They are broadcasting Arts Night Out from 5 to 8 pm. View the reading with the Emily Dickinson Museum from 6:30 to 7:30 EST

 

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Emily Dickinson Museum Sponsors a Zoom Poetry Reading on May 7

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA is staging a zoom poetry reading, in conjunction with the Florence Poets Society, on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time.) Check it out:

https://www.facebook.com/events/523548854988004/

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A Seguidilla Poem

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i img_0210posted this Seguidilla, a Spanish seven line syllabic poem with the syllable counts. Someone suggested I post it without the syllable counts, so here it is:

Renewal 

Two oak trees bare their branches

Fractured by moon bright

ice on a lakefront ripples

Clouds capture the light

With glittering gem

Leafless solitary stems

I wander alone

Has anyone else tried this form?

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Motivating Writing at Home

What motivates you to write at home?  I have been trying different things.  My latest as a poet is exploring different forms, like the Seguidilla. This is a verse form from Spain of seven syllable counted lines  (7,5,7,5,5, 7 5.) Between the second and the fourth there’s a rhyme and the fifth and the seventh. Here’s my attempt at a Seguidilla: 

Renewal 

 

Two oak trees bare their branches (7)

 

Coupled by their height           (5)

 

ice on a lakefront ripples (7)

 

Clouds capture moonlight  (5)

 

With glittering gems (5)

 

Leafless solitary stems (7)

 

I wander alone (5)

 

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Blogging in the Time of Corona

Now that I have infinite time to write and blog, I find myself resisting the urge and cooking and wiping things down as we’re told to do a hundred times a day.  How do others feel about blogging?adult blur books close up
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On Writing at Home in These Troubled Times

I have been trying to reorient myself to writing alone at home.  I am a writer who attends groups and writes in coffee shops, and I can’t now with the sequestering going on.  One suggestion I got was to establish a regular place to write at home.  Do any of you writers have other suggestions?red framed eyeglasses on newspapers
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