Art, National Poetry Month 01 Apr 2024 Spring! Hopkins brings the giddy goodness of creation to the surface. My paintbrush finds it too. Spring … Christi+
Poetry, Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 04 Jan 2024 Poetry Marathon III Dear friends, I’m challenged, excited, baffled, stumped, inspired, energized, disorganized, and not exactly sure if I'm in my right mind.… Christi+
Poetry 27 Jun 2022 Why Be a Rockstar? Why Get Published? I was at Willamette Writers when first introduced to the writing of William Stafford two decades ago. The poems seemed… Christi+
Poetry, Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 21 Feb 2022 How to Take a Forest Bath It's been an interesting poem-writing marathon this month, feeling exultation and pride one day and like a complete dud the… Christi+
Poetry, Tupelo 30/30 Poetry Project 01 Feb 2022 I’m Writing A Marathon! I'm running in a marathon - of poetry! I've been invited to be a guest poet for Tupelo Press in… Christi+
My Creative Journey, Poetry 25 Aug 2015 Courage is Simply the Willingness to Be Heard A new writer thanked me today for showing her the way to courage, the courage to speak up, the courage… Christi+
Creativity, Poetry, The Writing Life, Workshops 20 Aug 2014 My Writing River: A Poem by Emily Gillespie It starts with a trickle My writing river is flowing on uncut soil Atop the leaves and… Christi+
National Poetry Month, Poetry, The Writing Life, Uncategorized 04 May 2014 Stuck We've all felt stuck in our writing. Teresa Rodden, a life coach and writer in the Burn Wild workshop, colors… Christi+
National Poetry Month, Poetry 18 Apr 2014 National Poetry Month: the Whys Word to the Whys Writing the least of yourself is a tight-mesh strainer. What sieves through the other side… Christi+
National Poetry Month, Poetry 02 Apr 2014 National Poetry Month: You Expand the Definition To highlight National Poetry Month, I've been talking in Burn Wild class about how each poet brings something new to… Christi+ 1 Comment
Poetry, Writing Tips and Tools 01 Apr 2014 Resources for National Poetry Month This is it! National Poetry Month is the time to be surrounded by inspirational resources. You could write your very… Christi+
Poetry 14 May 2013 Does writing a poem make you a poet? Is it just about poem writing? It's a happy thing to come across someone writing a poem. So often, writers… Christi+ 2 Comments
