Fair Food

I wrote this prose poem several years ago when I met my friend's fiancé (now husband) for the first time while attending our local fair. Since it's Labor Day and I just went to the fair a few days ago, I thought I'd repost it again. The aura of hay and animal sweat mingles with …

When I Live By the Garden and the Sea

A friend challenged our writing group to write and read poetry this month, and while I've always had a love-hate relationship with poetry (how do you write poems?!?!), I decided to jump into the challenge. I've written a few things that need some editing, but I also went back and read through some more poetry …

Weeping Willow

Since it's National Poetry Month, I thought I might share some other random poems I've written. A friend challenged our writing group to write poems this month. I can't promise any will be good, but I'm excited to try. This one isn't something I wrote recently, but it's another poem that was inspired by that …

World on Fire

I recently went to an art exhibit for Van Gogh and it reminded me of an exhibit I attended during a college final for Monet and Matisse. We were instructed to view the exhibit and then write something—a poem, a short piece, etc.—based on the exhibit. This is one of the prose poems I wrote …

Sunday Snippets: Prose Poetry

This past Wednesday, I introduced prose poetry to my teen writers during our club meeting. I love prose poetry, and it's probably my favorite type of poetry because it mashes the two types of writing into one. I love play on words and internal rhymes and alliteration and just the way the words sound together. …