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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: October 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. October 2014 Poetry Challenge Winner. Zinnias (Photo ©. The October Poetry Challenge was judged by Mary Jo Balistreri, whose poem was used as the prompt this month. She selected "Beautiful Things," by Jenene Ravesloot, who is winner for the second consecutive month. Fresh-cut stiff stemmed zinnias straight from. The garden, dome-shaped yellow zinnias, multi-. Colored zinnias, red zinnias with single rows. In a tall glass vase. Photo of Grandmoth...
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: June 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Monday, June 29, 2015. June 2015 Challenge Winner - A River Poem. Charlotte Digregorio, the judge for the June Poetry Challenge selected “Flow, River, Flow” by Carole Mertz as the winning poem. Mertz interpreted “river poem” in a unique and creative way. Flow, River, Flow. I haven’t ridden on swift-flowing rafts,. But I’ve been swept along in waters. Splayed by many a writer’s crafts. I’ve travelled torrents in books. As varied and bright. As my rich reading nooks. Check ...
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: February 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. My American University Coffee Mug. Balistreri picked “Barista:” by Caroline Johnson as winner. Henry says the Lakota called it black medicine. I can imagine Black Elk drinking from a gourd,. Huddling around a teepee with a peace pipe. Sometime in July when the cherries are ripe. Henry looks at each customer with green eyes. Full of gourmet hot chocolate and caramel mochas. He moves his arms across the espresso machine,. The line is long:.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: August 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Finally a Winner - A Poem about an Iconic Structure. Richard had commented in his email, “. Here is my poem based on the iconic churches of St. Denis and Chartres, a suggestion of the inspiration for Gothic architecture, with its opening up of space and light, replacing Romanesque.” Here is his poem:. The Abbot in Autumn. Abbot Suger surely stood. Beneath an aisle of ancient trees. And marveled at its height,. Its rise and great limbs arching.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: April 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. April 2015 Poetry Challenge Winner - a Bee Poem. The judge for the April, selected a haiku as the winning poem. Congratulations to Georgiann Foley! Sun slips as crowned thistle sways. Lulls bumblebee silent still. Clinging to purple heaven. Georgiann Foley is the owner of this poem. Please do not copy and distribute it without her permission. Bumblebee silent still . Still clinging to purple heaven,. DuPage Arts Life,. And Seeding the Snow.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: July Challenge Winner - An Advice Poem
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Friday, July 31, 2015. July Challenge Winner - An Advice Poem. The winning poem in the July Poetry Challenge uses a metaphor from soccer to advise a young poet. It is a fairly complex metaphor, but then soccer and the writing of poetry are complex, each in its own way. Here is the winning poem:. Advice to a Young Poet. You don’t have to love. But know it will be your. Hit readers with the shine. Of new currency, or tarnish. The dank water of a well. You feel it,. The judg...
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workshops - andrea witzke slot
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Poets and Patrons Poetry Workshop. Recognizing and Understanding (Your) Meter. Co-taught with the fabulous Debra Bruce. Saturday, August 22, 1pm. Chicago Public Library,. Howard Washington Library, 300 S. State Street (Room 6N, 3rd Floor). POETS and PATRONS AUGUST WORKHSOP. Falls into the category of what I had in mind years ago, as an ideal.". I found myself looking on her website to see where she is teaching next. She is a delight.". Chair of the Barrington Writers Workshop. Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: June 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Friday, June 27, 2014. June 2014 Poetry Challenge Winner. I am the wind. The weary sailor looks out to sea. Mirrored in the glassy stillness of the water. Raising his rope scarred fist to the sky. He curses and rails. Then pleads and prays. A dot of red. Dancing against a summer-blue sky. Tethered to the small hand. Of a laughing child. I watch the joy of the tiny figure. I could leave; I could steal. Instead, I play. An old woman, some say a crone. Bent with her years.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: May 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Thursday, May 29, 2014. May 2014 Poetry Challenge Winners. The May judge was Caroline Johnson, President of Poets and Patrons of Chicago. She selected first, second and third place poems. It is interesting that the first and third place poems had the same abstract title. They are very different, though. The first place poem is a Pantoum; the second and third place poems are both free verse. Here is the first place winner:. Sunlight on spring day promises something new.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: September 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. September 2014 - Winning List Poems. Photo Credit: Karin Addis. Wisconsin poet Janet Leahy picked the winners of the September challenge – a list poem. The first place poem is “Cats” by Jenene Ravesloot. A feral female cat with bulging pregnant sides,. An old grey tomcat with one torn ear and damaged. Voice box that leaves him miming his meows at 6 am,. A tortoiseshell tabby cat with crusted eyelids and runny. And thinks they’re sneaky. Love t...
