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Friday, November 4, 2016 4:13:10 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: A Terza Rima for the Poetry Seven:
Sara said, "The assignment? A terza rima, the interlocking poetic form made famous by Dante's Inferno. The theme? Gratitude.For once, I knew instantly how this theme would inform my poem: There was no doubt its subject would be my poetry sisters, without whom I..." more
Friday, October 7, 2016 3:28:50 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Arlequin:
Sara said, "Arlequin by by René de Saint-Marceaux photographed at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon, France,by Kelly RamsdellWho is that masked man? I thought I knew. I'd seen him before. Replicas of this statue are all over Amazon, ebay, and auction..." more
Friday, September 2, 2016 4:20:21 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Cake and Clogyrnach:
Sara said, "We got married in August, 1984. The heat it was hot, even for a ceremony at 8 PM. But we didn't melt, and neither did the cake:Carrot cake, my husband's favoriteI'm sure there was a toast given, too. Which brings me to this month's poetry challenge:..." more
Friday, August 5, 2016 3:41:00 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: WONDER:
Sara said, "It was an Instagram darling during its run. People couldn't stop posting pictures of themselves with the re-constructed trees, walls of bugs, glass marble-encrusted waterways, index card mountains, and hobbit-ish nests that had been installed inside..." more
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:47:24 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: In the style of Kay Ryan:
Sara said, " Our last "in the style of" challenge was e.e. cummings, a poet of invented words and experimental forms, a writer who easily charms me, and often transports me. This time, our poet model is Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate and..." more
Friday, June 3, 2016 3:07:40 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: A Pantoum Fit for a Harpy:
Sara said, "This month's image comes from Tanita Davis, who photographed this magnificent sculpture of a harpy at the Kelvingrove Museum in Scotland. "The Harpy Celaeno," by Mary Pownall Bromet*Her name is Celaeno, which means "storm-cloud," as the harpies..." more
Saturday, May 21, 2016 12:05:21 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: A Tritina for Dickey Chapelle:
Sara said, "The challenge this month was to write a tritina. It's a form with no end rhyme; instead the last words in each line repeat in a compact, cyclical way. All three words appear again in the last, stand-alone line. Like this:ABCCABBCAA B C..." more
Friday, April 1, 2016 4:33:25 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Drs. Sora and Swallow:
Sara said, "This month's inspiration was provided by Poetry Sister Laura Purdie Salas. She says "These are two parts of a 7-part ceiling fresco at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. I spoke at a children's literature conference there a couple of weeks..." more
Friday, March 4, 2016 4:34:58 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Sedoka: Two Halves Make a Whole:
Sara said, "Whirling head poem. That's how one site translates the ancient Japanese poetry form, the Sedoka (旋頭歌) Don't you love that?The idea of Sedoka is that two poems (each of the syllable count 5-7-7) are put together, and the whole..." more
Friday, February 5, 2016 6:13:36 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Response to Picasso's Sculpture of a Cat:
Sara said, "Response to Picasso’s sculpture of a CatShe’s pregnant, this cator just given birth. She’s muddy;her tail's been broken.Look at her neck, stiffas a stanchion. Look at her compacthead; so ill-made for big thoughtsyou fear her tail is pullingher..." more
Friday, January 8, 2016 5:08:41 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: The Period Table of Crown Sonnets:
Sara said, "When people spark in each other's presence, and shine brighter than alone, we call that Chemistry. The ineffable, mysterious SOMETHING that arises between like souls. How fitting, then, that this Poetry Friday, the Poetry Sisters culminate our..." more
Friday, November 6, 2015 3:22:50 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Growth Spurt:
Sara said, "The Poetry Seven's assignment this month was simple: Write a poem inspired by an image. (Technically, it's called ekphrastic poetry.) We all used the same image, plucked specially for us from the magpie-marvelous collection of Tanita..." more
Friday, October 2, 2015 3:01:39 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Etheree:
Sara said, "When I first heard the word etheree, I thought it was an old-fashioned name, the kind given to a girl who shucks peas on a weathered porch, with a Bowie knife strapped to her ankle, in case a rattlesnake gets to rattlin', or a rancher gets to..." more
Friday, September 4, 2015 2:13:35 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Wiseguy (A Found Poem):
Sara said, "Athlete of cross workLover of up-and-downWord wonder 2 brieflyNot DoneMy source for this found poem was Merl Reagle's last crossword for the Washington Post. I solved it with a heavy heart:Read the Post's nicely done obituary. And don't miss..." more
Thursday, August 6, 2015 11:07:12 PM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: ISO Haiku:
Sara said, "Once, my son found a "help wanted" ad:Remove nest of baby copperheadsfrom under porch. Will pay $20.I always wondered if anyone was desperate enough to answer. I mean, come on---they're BABY copperheads, right?That's the thing about..." more
Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:42:26 PM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: "In Just---" Echoes of ee cummings:
Sara said, "The assignment for the Poetry Seven this month was to write a poem in the style of ee cummings, taking one of his works as inspiration. Although cummings is one of my favorite poets, and I've blogged about him before (in relation to Frank Cottrell..." more
Friday, June 5, 2015 4:12:35 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: An ode to...well, you'll see---I think:
Sara said, "The Poetry Seven has a list: an agreed upon schedule of poetic forms we will attempt this year. And in which order.But then, we get fancy. Throw around themes or a common word or two.This month, we were due to tackle odes. Free-verse odes, so..." more
Friday, May 1, 2015 8:44:05 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled I would let in the moon (A Pantoum):
Sara said, "The last time I tried a pantoum, I was feeling mucky and complicated and my poem reflected that. This time, I resolved to write a small love song, and pare it down as much as possible.A pantoum, it seems, can hold both moods---the rotating,..." more
Friday, April 3, 2015 5:48:30 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled At the Fulcrum of the Day: A Raccontino:
Sara said, "If you're like me, you had to look up a raccontino to know what it was. Or, more precisely, I had to scramble to Miss Rhumpius's blog to find out that it's a poem that is:composed of couplets (any number)even number lines share the same end rhymethe..." more
Friday, February 6, 2015 4:38:57 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Chiral: a Poetry Friday Fling with a Villanelle:
Sara said, "When I fall in love with a word, I go a bit mad. It happened this week, when I belatedly began a draft of a villanelle so I could hang with the Poetry Seven today.I'd written a villanelle with this Gang of Poets once before, and was pleased..." more
Friday, January 9, 2015 12:20:43 PM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Antidote: A Triolet for the New Year:
Sara said, "The antidote to fear is honeyed in devotiondelivered deep, a draught of slow and barmy mead.Else we dry to salt, fleeing night-depths of the ocean;The antidote to fear is honeyed in devotion Why pillory our hearts, why gulp the unguent..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 12:26:27 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Writing Pantoums with Friends:
Sara said, "When Liz suggested reviving the dormant Poetry 7 Collaborative by writing pantoums around a common line, I said: "I'm in." Then I went to look up a pantoum.Oh.Hmmm.Writing this was like turning myself inside out. The best part? Getting to..." more
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:04:04 PM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled "Clear Thinking about Mixed Feelings": A Guest Post at Teachers Write:
Sara said, "I'm guest posting about poetry and inspiration at Kate Messner's fabulous virtual writing camp, Teachers Write, today.You may recognize some of the themes I talk about (and even the actual words!) as drawn from this blog---but then, I see this blog..." more
Friday, May 4, 2012 7:14:41 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Renku:
Sara said, "Poetry ought to be taught in schools as a game. I mean it. All the way up to high school and beyond.We start this way---with hand clap rhymes, or raps, or silly jingles which we make even sillier, or perhaps, (gasp!) off-color. And then...the..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:04:03 AM
Sara Holmes wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday: Sanctuary:
Sara said, "The Poetry Seven challenge this month was to write a poem on the theme of "sanctuary, rest, or seeking peace" inspired by the architectural art at one of Andi's favorite retreats, the Glencairn Museum Cloister in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.For further..." more