I am grateful to have been chosen “Poet of the Week” on the Poetry Super Highway. Check it out on December 26-January 1, 2023 for my poem “A Paddle Into Childhood.”
Happy New Year to All. I’ll see you again in 2023.
I am grateful to have been chosen “Poet of the Week” on the Poetry Super Highway. Check it out on December 26-January 1, 2023 for my poem “A Paddle Into Childhood.”
Happy New Year to All. I’ll see you again in 2023.
I am grateful to Vita Brevis Press for publishing my poems:
“3 a.m.“
“Respiratory“
in What is All This Sweet Work?: A Poetry Anthology About Love and Loss (2022). Take a look.
One thing I love about winter in the Northeast is the snow. Now the snow is going, and it’s officially spring this week.
I love the quiet, the writerlyness of the whole thing. But how does this affect my writing? I wrote a collection of poems about my partner who died of Alzheimer’s. We had spent a lot of time in Mexico, so this landscape came into my poems:
“When I think of Oaxaco
I remember the Zocolo
where they sold pipa del agua
and chocolate dripping from paper cups.”
The setting just naturally came into the poem. Does this happen with you?
Take look at my collection:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/touch-my-head-softly-by-eileen-kennedy/
I will continue to blog on Thursdays and do announcements, as they come in, on Tuesdays.
Here is the link to register: https://www.strawdogwriters.org/post/8th-annual-straw-dog-writers-author-showcase
This is the website: https://www.strawdogwriters.org/post/exploring-some-japanese-poetry-forms-writing-haiku-and-tanka.
Register by email to admin@strawdogwriters.org
This is the website: https://www.strawdogwriters.org/post/exploring-some-japanese-poetry-forms-writing-haiku-and-tanka.
Register by email to admin@strawdogwriters.org
The difference I have noticed between successful writers who publish and people who want to be writers is the time commitment. The successful writer takes his/her writing seriously and carves out time daily to write.
The successful writer is disciplined about writing, if not daily, at regular intervals, and sticks to that schedule. We all go through periods of vacation, periods of time devoted to family and friends, but within those diversions, the writer has discipline about devoting time to the craft.
Never assume that something will get done because you’ve told yourself it will. Have a disciplined approach, and rely on writing groups, calendars, schedules, good word processing systems, in other words, the tools of the trade in good order. Then sit down and write.
It took me ten years to write my most recent collection, but I finished and published it. Take a look:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/touch-my-head-softly-by-eileen-kennedy/
I will blog regularly on Thursdays. I will make announcements on Tuesdays.