18 Mar 2016
by jeannepoland
in Deeper, Forest, Poetry
Tags: Andrew Gent, born, caves, Deeper, fire, history, Neil Waldman, poem, song, story, whisper

illustrator Neil Waldman
History
by Andrew Gent
Every poem has been written before
at least fifteen times.
Every song
sung better.
The Neanderthals discovered caves
already painted with the story of their lives.
They invented fire
over and over again.
And you & I
whisper the same sweet nothings
we were born with.
“History” by Andrew Gent from Explicit Lyrics. © The University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
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23 Jan 2016
by jeannepoland
in Ante, Laws of Motion, Poetry
Tags: Ante 1, art director, bleed on the page, character, fiction, illustration by Elizabeth Stanton, page, picture book, Procreate, reader, rhyme, Rhyming, science, Siberia, story, virtual tools

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
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29 May 2013
by jeannepoland
in Family
Tags: brain power, design, empathy, health, left is right, meaning, play, right brain, six high-touch senses, story, symphony, touch

Stay in touch
with the six
high-touch senses:
design
story
symphony
empathy
play
meaning.
Where are they?
In the right brain.
Where what’s left is right!
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