An April Quartet
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The Last Note Begins with See Sharp: On Transforming Your Thoughts into Poetry
In the first four weeks of April, Shelf Talk published the series An April Quartet in honor of National Poetry Month. Each blog post was centered around an accompanying resource list, An April Quartet: In Alto, Poets Face that Discordant Sound, An April Quartet: Some Soprano Sops Up a Poem’s Bread (the Rising), An April… Continue reading
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An April Quartet, Part IV: Tenor, in the Tenor of these Times, Raise Your Voice High
What do you say, to yourself and others, about these days we are living through? How are you describing the events, people, known and unknown, the circumstances and situations you witness or find yourself encountering? Your words may be heard by a few, by many or you alone, either way you give voice to the… Continue reading
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An April Quartet, Part III: Bass Note of Blue, the Flowering
This Spring greets us with peril and possibility. More than a movie, more than any play or book in which we can flip fast to the end and find out what happens, walk out, grab a snack or turn the dang thing off we just don’t know, do we, when this will be over? We… Continue reading
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An April Quartet, Part II: Some Soprano Sops a Poem’s Bread (the Rising)
When poetry is on the menu how can you go wrong? There is such a bounty of poems, in the world, about our favorite pastime that you can have your pick and there’s plenty more where that came from! We have to start somewhere and that somewhere is right here. The resource list, An April… Continue reading
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An April Quartet: In Alto, Poets Face that Discordant Sound
This is how April will find us, still, in the throes of this great viral mystery. Who shall be next? Who will escape, sometimes, barely? Hold on! Persist. Where to find solace and perspective? In poetry, perhaps. In honor of National Poetry Month, we have prepared a map of sorts. A poetic map of terrain… Continue reading