This April, in honor of National Poetry Month, I accepted a poetry dare from TweetSpeakPoetry: to read a poem every day of the month and share it with my friends. I opted for the challenge of reading a single poet per week, mingling historical and contemporary poets. Here’s a day-by-day list of what I read.Continue reading “April Poetry Dare, 2014 wrap-up”
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April Poetry Dare – Week 4
This April, in honor of National Poetry Month, I accepted a poetry dare from TweetSpeakPoetry: to read a poem every day of the month and share it with my friends. I opted for the challenge of reading a single poet per week, alternating between historical and contemporary poets. Here’s a day-by-day list of what IContinue reading “April Poetry Dare – Week 4”
April Poetry Dare – Week 3
This April, in honor of National Poetry Month, I accepted a poetry dare from TweetSpeakPoetry: to read a poem every day of the month and share it with my friends. I opted for the challenge of reading a single poet per week, alternating between historical and contemporary poets. Here’s a day-by-day list of what IContinue reading “April Poetry Dare – Week 3”
April Poetry Dare – Week 2
This April, in honor of National Poetry Month, I accepted a poetry dare from TweetSpeakPoetry: to read a poem every day of the month and share it with my friends. I opted for the challenge of reading a single poet per week, alternating between historical and contemporary poets. Here’s a day-by-day list of what IContinue reading “April Poetry Dare – Week 2”
April Poetry Dare – Week 1
This April, in honor of National Poetry Month, I accepted a poetry dare from TweetSpeakPoetry: to read a poem every day of the month and share it with my friends. I opted for the challenge of reading a single poet per week, alternating between historical and contemporary poets. Here’s a day-by-day list of what IContinue reading “April Poetry Dare – Week 1”
An Appetizer of Snark
Yowza. It has been a while, blogging world! The Snark had to batten down the hatches and go into full-on survival mode for this crazy North Carolina winter, that’s what. I’ve been reduced to Tweet-length snark awards for the great rivalry between Ford and Cadillac; politicians who publish stock video footage in an attemptContinue reading “An Appetizer of Snark”
Conversation Tips for the South
Dear southern friends, I, like you, enjoy the crisp white transformation of the world that takes place when atmospheric water vapor crystallizes into a thousand unique flakes. I, like you, have heard that there is a high likelihood of snow on Wednesday. I, like you, find this a rare occurrence in good ‘ol southern NorthContinue reading “Conversation Tips for the South”
Snowmanxiety
My first thought on receiving my grad school’s alumni magazine was, “Only Wake students have such acute performance anxiety that they need a diagram to build a snowman.” I suspect that I might be projecting. There are 32 days until Daylight Savings Time returns.
I’m on a bus…14 buses
“Winston-Salem Writers recently received an Innovative Projects Grant from the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Arts Council for 2014. The purpose of the Grant is to place specially designed Poetry in Plain Sight posters in all 58 buses in Winston-Salem for one year. We are drawing on this past year’s selected poems (2013), with an eye towardsContinue reading “I’m on a bus…14 buses”
Tiny Tuesdays: Clocks
Day-to-day life is full of stresses. I recently shared with you my secret method of dealing with them: tiny things. That’s why I started the blog series, “Tiny Thing Tuesdays.” Every Tuesday, I have been sharing my latest and minute-but-greatest finds in the field of tiny things, adorable and absurd. This week, in honor ofContinue reading “Tiny Tuesdays: Clocks”
Snark on the Side 