At Saturday’s Little River Poetry Festival Brian Magill did a workshop on writing Neanderthal Poetry, poems that consist of only one syllable words, short and with a twist. We read our finished pieces in caveman voices, and if we mistakenly used a two syllable word Karen gave us the gong. Of course, it was all […]
Day 1 Friday evening at Floyd’s Little River Poetry Festival: After dinner in the field Brian hit the gong to call the poets to the big tent stage. I told him I hoped this wasn’t going to be a Gong Show. Later when I was doing my workshop I asked for a show of hands […]
I’ll be doing a workshop at the Little River Poetry Festival Friday June 2 at 6:30. I’ll be using my poem “Eulogy in Self-Portrait,” which my husband calls my Opus, as a loose template for this 3rd person exercise. My poem is the conclusion of a body of work that has taken me eight years […]
The mind in meditation is like a treasure detector When the mind drops down the gold coin is found and the body reaps the benefit of its valuable stillness The soul accrues the interest of currency well spent ____________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
