By Elizabeth Enslin on April 19, 2010
‘m sad that I’m not participating in the poem-a-day madness of National Poetry Month. That’s what pulled me into a poetry last year. I hoped to discover new ways to bring music and imagery into my prose, never thinking I’d fall in love with writing and reading poetry itself (something I’d always avoided)….
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Posted in Poetry, Publication, Recent, Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 17, 2010
I revised my St. Patrick’s Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut. A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged cultural heritage, holidays, naming, St. Patrick's Day, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 25, 2009
Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don’t usually look at wild animals and think: meat. Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception….
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Posted in Humor, Poetry, Politics and History, Seasons and Rituals, Species of the Week | Tagged food, holidays, Thanksgiving, wild, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 19, 2009
It’s wordle time again at Read Write Poem. This month’s prompt delivered a collection of words beginning with “P”….
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Posted in Poetry, Recent | Tagged books, nostalgia, Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 20, 2009
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Posted in Poetry, Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, Poetry, solar energy, wordplay, yurt |
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 15, 2009
I’m trying to catch up on all the work I didn’t do during National Poetry Writing Month, but I found it hard to resist the Read Write Poem wordle prompt this week. It’s a pretty rough attempt that has not faced much reflection or revision. Now back to working in the garden. I gather the
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By Elizabeth Enslin on April 30, 2009
I overcame a lifelong fear of writing poetry on April Fool’s Day. It happened by accident. I had grown tired of my stale prose habits and surfed the web looking for distraction….
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Posted in Humor, Poetry, Writing Process | Tagged Humor, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 30, 2009
This is the last day of National Poetry Writing Month and the last day of the challenge I stumbled onto thirty days ago to write a poem a day. I had studied poetry here and there but had rarely written it, so leaping in this way has been exhilarating and a bit surreal. I’m eager
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged inspiration, Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 29, 2009
After yesterday’s sestina misadventure, I need a break from words. So this penultimate NaPoWriMo offering is very short. It does riff off the prompt at Read Write Poem (“I don’t think I can…”) and at Poetic Asides “(Never…”) and, although very silly (and probably not true), it does truly capture something in my mood today.
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 26, 2009
The NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem asked us to ponder metaphysics, while the one at Poetic Asides asked for some reflection on miscommunication. This seemed like a good time to try a fibonacci poem. The words I had only filled out a shorter sequence at the end. I decided I liked it that way.
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged childhood, nature, Poetry, ritual, wordplay |
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