Christie Palmer Lowrance

A “poem-athon” produces a book: Pebbles in the Stream

Since I was assigning the poems to writers who had agreed to be tapped for the 2020 Literary Arts “Poem-athon,” I gave the first commissi...

WHAT'S BEHIND THE LITERARY ARTS "POEMATHON?"

THE POWER OF A POEM In the spring days following the upheaval to our lives by COVID-19, new lifestyles and urgent needs were created that...

Bringing Clarity to Your Writing

Writing is always about bringing clarity to the subject. The more historical research, the greater the clarity a writer can provide. Don'...

A Place of Honor

The places of honor for artwork vary by house and owner. The bathroom in my house is a place where one pauses, detaches and closes a door...

Saving Wildlife - and Ourselves

If you have children, care about animals, or need any further reasons to accept that wildlife extinction is a fact of life on our planet...

Keep music in your life, friends!

What is it about music that binds us to time and place? Woodstock, for example. Here it is, 50 years after an event that called . . .

Unkind Thoughts on Poetry

Poems can be so irritating to write. Why? Some years ago I heard a dazzling great writer, maybe Margaret Atwood, provide one answer. She...

WORRY

I worry about small things. Children. Weeds. A crack in the plaster of the wall in my family room. The violet plant that is not thriving....

Poetry Month

April is Poetry Month, a time to read and/or write a few. Perhaps you can recall poems you have indiscriminately encountered over your li...

Nature & Conservancy in a Read-Aloud, Child-Friendly Package

When book reviewer and blogger Sarah Curtis Graziano recently selected Thornton Burgess' children's classic Old Mother West Wind to inclu...

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