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  • Tuesday Tip-Simple poems or simplistic?

      Kate Bariletti says: Here is a poem i’ve written that may give your group some grist. I am questioning it as to whether it’s beautifully simple or just simplistic. Tui and fantail are birds native to New Zealand. Thanks. dailyI walk the same path to the lake alwaysa surprise awaits todaythe chuck of a tui abovethe tease…

  • Guest Blog

    Please go to http://memoirwritersblog.turningmemories.com to read today’s blog. Look for “Heroic Annie Hill.”  This is the website for Denis Ledoux, who teaches and coaches memoir writers. I took a course with Denis a few years ago and loved it. When I think about my own writing, I consistently see elements he taught me. Thanks to Denis…

  • No Poetry Question?

    This project is not working. I’m here to help, and I’ll give it one more week.

  • Owens’ New Novel

    Last evening at Caribou Coffee in Westminster, Colorado author Freddie Owens read from his recently published novel, Then Like the Blind Man, Orbie’s Story. Believe me, you’ll want to read this one. As the jacket copy says, this is “the story of a feisty wunderkind in the segregated South of the 1950s, and the forces…

  • Tuesday Tip #3

    Big sigh, no questions, no poems. I guess everyone knows all there is to know about learning to write poetry. Wish I did.