POETRY [fotos & glow, follow]
AUDREY PARENTE created a book of clever read-aloud hauntings. My longtime writing pal Audrey is also a journalist & pulp fiction editor/expert. I was delighted she asked me to invite families to shiver with her poems in my lyrical introduction. Go gingerly, best for ages 9-10 + up. Whoooo! Ghouler than greeting cards, unless homemade, it’s easy & affordable to find At B&N.
Enjoy a POETRY CARD
COCA is the Big Bend’s energetic, juggernaut arts community.
The House That Rhymes is a must-see sight for poets in OurTown.
Pool Time
I invite you into the pool ~~ the word pool. Poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge coached, through her book, my first jumps into word pools. Creator of the guide, “poemcrazy: freeing your life with words,” she is unique in prompting my work with her ideas. This book is a guide I’ve loved for more than a decade. In poemcrazy she presents the idea of someone tossing words your way.
~~~ cramp drought funnel Grrr luscious persevere quandary swamp ~~~~
Write those eight words up into a poem. Sprinkle them in any order. “What to do with a drifted stick in winter?” is how the words found me.
Pool Time is often a feature of the creative MoSt poetry center’s annual end of year Poetry Challenges, which culminated in the lovely chapbook where the above word pool creation, “What to do with a drifted stick in winter?” appears. I’m grateful to poet & MoSt poetry challenge editor Gary Thomas for doling out those five choice words.
Gary Thomas, of MosT, is truly, a poet’s editor.
Appreciations for Susan's "poemcrazy" teachings & for MoSt's continued celebration of word pools. Some say word pools are a shield against blank page syndrome. To me they rev up the neurons. More appreciations to MoSt poet/editor Gary Thomas, who is pubbed by Finishing Line Press. Susan G. Wooldridge http://susanwooldridge.com MoSt Poetry Center https://www.mostpoetry.org/ BIRMINGHAM ARTS JOURNAL This encaustic nature visitation of purple blue petunias created by Tom Dameron covers Vol. 17, Issue 4, of the wonderful community known as Birmingham Arts Journal. "Assisted Writing' [ p. 12 online] is my contributing poem. The poem fledged from a writing prompt gifted to creative writers at an onlne Highlights Foundation poetry workshop, led by two nourishing Rebeccas & one nourishing Georgia. Sign up!
The lovely TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL also liked “Assisted Writing” & shared versions, twice.
Online with Tiny Seed Literay Journal.
A bloom with Tiny Seed Literary Journal at
PLANT YOUR WORDS anthology, 2023.
Poetry Help!
My pals Charles & Irene share in a poetry podcast from Highlights Foundation
The wonderful Disability Interest Group pubbed the above rose ekphrastic haiku in its nourishing disability news website newsletter & it also prompted a surprise sweet sticker created & sent to me by #PoetryFriday #PoetryFriday colleague Margaret Simon. An outside meditation, “Shore Good Friday,’ is wrapped up within the MoSt Poetry Center’s New Year Poetry Challenge 2020-2021 chapbook.
Anhinga Press pubbed ” Only Your Recent Works.”
Great appreciations to all the chapbook readers, editors & designers.
Some more poem assistances & communities follow a few foto images.
All original material at this sight, All rights reserved. JGAnnino/ Jan Godown Annino
Popular Mechanix C. JGANNINO, alll rights reserved
Snapping available-light local news images shaped my newspaper-published photographs, following lessons from & work at a military photographer’s college lab.
Now I often spotlight nature, wry street scenes & creatures.
Escape C. JGANNINO all rights reserved
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; An incomplete reference list presented gingerly, with apologies for incompleteness, but. . . still nourishing. ~~~~~~
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American Indians in Children’s Literature
Ashely Bryan at the Library of Congress Ashley Bryan Center
Brown Bookshelf poetry links
Florida State Poetry Association
Dictionary for a Better World: Poem Quotes Anecdotes from A to Z (2 authors)
Handbook of Poetic Forms (T & W Collaborative)
Runaway With Words edited & created by JoAnn Gardner. Her chapbook, Heart’s Core.
Shape of Content (artist Ben Sahn)
Writing a Poem Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them
a poem or two by JGAnnino c. all rights reserved
Hey, Lovey
She is my olden patriotic fabric doll.
Wears faded brickred skirt faded bluejeansblue blouse
Today I made a sign of love for her to carry
I READ BANNED BOOKS
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GLOW ~~ Some words sent in, about my school & library presentations
Thank you so much for your creative guidance and generous
hospitality. What a pleasure this Sumer Writing Circle has been.
– a literature teacher
Thank you so much for allowing me to be part of your Writing
Circle. It has been wonderful! You are an inspiration and good
friend to me.
– children’s author
THANK YOU for such a wonderful day for our Kindergarten through 3rd grade students and teachers! I am attaching some photos from this unique experience you provided for our Little Mustangs. (Methinks) Betty Mae Tiger Jumper would be proud.
-award-winning public school art teacher
GOOD NEWS FOR SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader
SHE SANG PROMISE is a “Great Read for Kids & Teachers”, landing on a list of 52 books collected by the U.S. Library of Congress.
SHE SANG PROMISE is out in a SCHOLASTIC EDITION – for book clubs & book fairs.
FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS named SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumpers, Seminole Tribal Leader
the GOLD winner in Children’s Literature. This recognition will increase the chances that young readers will know more about Florida heritage & about the amazing Betty Mae Tiger Jumper.
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL for the SOCIAL STUDIES with THE CHILDREN’s BOOK COUNCIL,
placed SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, on this 2010 recommended list:
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION news
THE {ALA/Amelia Bloomer Project List} renamed the RISE LIST named SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, to its annual annotated bibliography of books for young readers that offer excellent role models of girl & women characters or real girls & women in non-fiction.
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retired library director Helen Moeller, Florid
Joan Broerman, past Regional Advisor, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
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