Giving a Poetry Reading

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Giving a Poetry Reading

Some say I’m a witch
casting alchemy spells

or a bitch
with rich relatives

or whisk broom
sweeping up debris

but the truth is
I am a wish for grandeur

a swishing, itching, bristling poet
a rhyming, riotous boisterous bard!

Giving a Poetry Reading

Mary Magdaline

 

Giving a Poetry Reading

Some say I’m a witch
casting alchemy spells

or a bitch
with rich relatives

or whisk broom
sweeping up debris

but the truth is
I am a wish for grandeur

a swishing, itching, bristling poet
a rhyming, riotous boisterous bard!

Ante 1

illustration by Elizabeth Stanton

Am working on a picture book about the foxes tamed in Siberia. Ever since the Rhyming Picture Books Conference in NYC, I keep thinking about manuscripts that rhyme, but have concluded that to have a story, illustrations that bleed on the page and regular rhymes is simply too much for the page! Love J Patrick Lewis’s poetry anthologies but he doesn’t have to lay out the pages; the art director does. And there’s no story with a character who engages the reader from page 5 on…I’m also grappling with science (non-fiction) and animal characters (fictionalized)
Meanwhile, I’m trying to use Procreate on an iPad to illustrate. Being a tactile girl, the virtual tools are not a good fit!
Ho-hum on I go.
Jeanne