A(nother) Year of Reading

Painted in a creativity Zoom with Jill Badonsky

Shake My Brain Over the Page and This is What Sprinkles Out: A Cento

exploring time
imagination makes room
embroidery as play / craft is political
priceless and worthless, simultaneously

women’s work —
this long thread
with her own hands —
let’s move the needle

Huge Old Cottonwood at Scioto Audubon Park, Columbus, OH

Today is Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. If you haven’t watched the new PBS documentary Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure, put that at the top of your TBW list!

Here is David Attenborough’s

Happy May Day! Today is an Inklings challenge day, and Heidi challenged us to “Celebrate May by writing a poem that Maykes use of the verbs may, might, could, can, ought.” It felt SO good to use more words, syllables, and lines!

Here’s how the rest of the Inklings met this month’s challenge:

Catherine @

All of this month’s poems can be found at Poetrepository.

It is with relief that this NPM comes to a close. I’ve learned lots about writing poetry this month. There is power in working the same form day after day. You go deep and learn it well. You start to feel it in your bon...

Map Created initially by Tabatha Yeatts and modified throughout the month
The Land of Poetry

On my first trip to the Land of Poetry,
I saw anthologies of every color, tall as buildings.
A world of words, wonder on wings, waiting just for me!
Birding for words shimmering, flecked in golden gilding.

Binoculars ready, I toured boulevar...