Category: Poetry

• Keeping bees with Sylvia Plath

  

  What do beekeeping, motherhood and post-partum depression have in common? Sylvia Plath! And me, as I dream up a new essay and writing project.

  Marcella

  March 16, 2021

  Farm life, Poetry

  depression, motherhood, Sylvia Plath

• The reinvigorating cliché

  

  No one wants their writing to be littered with tired phrases, but if you can pick up that trash and use it, as a writer, you should. What’s your favorite cliché?

  Marcella

  January 5, 2021

  Poetry, Teaching, Writing

  cliche, Le Guin, rain, Rilke, writing prompt

• Another prompt poem

  

  Another prompt has me thinking about the cyclical nature of things.

  Marcella

  April 8, 2020

  Farm life, Poetry

  discover prompts, motherhood, nature

• 2020 poetry challenge days 2 & 3

  The goal is to write poems, even bad ones!

  Marcella

  April 3, 2020

  Poetry, Writing

  bright ideas, NationalPoetryMonth, tercet

• Poetry challenge 2020 – day 1

  A tricube poem for April 1.

  Marcella

  April 1, 2020

  Poetry

  NationalPoetryMonth