Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
“She’d seem strong- willed somehow. Woman like her imagined the forest paths.” Betty, a member of United Church Homes’ Harmar Place Community in Marietta, Ohio, wrote those lines during a recent poem RENOVATION workshop. She conjured up a vibrant...
Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
A while back, my poet friend, Alison, suggested the following tagline for poem RENOVATION: “Sounds like home.” Yes, “poem” sounds like home. And “home” is a word you’d expect to find paired with “renovation.” But I couldn’t see how that tagline connected...
May 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
poemRENOVATION.com visitors are presented daily with a scrambled passage from literature. They select words that resonate with them, then move them around on a digital canvas to create something new–a poem, a phrase, even word art. There are no rules. The sole...
Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
QUESTION: If 304 students from 12 sixth grade classes take the same 48 words, rearrange them, then share their creationswith their cross-country counterparts, what do you get? ANSWER: Poem Pals! In March, we’ll kick off a cross-country collaboration between...
Jan 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Anger For an Unbalanced Oven Rack is the first poem I ever wrote. I was 17 and my parents were divorcing. Laying my confusion and sorrow down on paper helped me heal. During the pandemic, I began searching for new meaning in my Oven Rack poem. Eager to see if I could...
