This month, my poetry sisters and I wrote poems based on the question “What does ___ know?” We were inspired by poems written by Jane Yolen and Joyce Sidman, among others.
After not managing to come up with anything to share for the past two months, I am making up for it by sharing THREE of these poems.
These poems were wonderful to write, and I am super in love with the form/format. Also, I am super in love with the group of women with whom I get to talk about poetry and share time and space to write together.
The other poetry princesses are: Liz Garton Scanlon, Sara Lewis Holmes, Tanita Davis, Andi Sibley, Laura Purdie Salas, Tricia Stohr-Hunt, and Mary Lee Hahn. If a name looks like a link, you can read their offering for this Friday on their blogs.
Next month, we will be writing tankas in response to another poet in our little group. You are invited to write along, if you’d like, and can write a tanka in response to pretty much any poem you like, whether it’s one of our or someone else’s entirely. I will be putting up a post on what a tanka is, the history of the form, and how to write one next week.