Category Archives: poems

National Poetry Month: Reminder, poetry can be memoir

For anyone who likes to write poems, know that you can create a memoir using poems. You can write about your life using poems. Or, you can simply include poems in your memoir or lifewriting, mixing them in with prose. … Continue reading

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Good Reads for Black History Month – or anytime

In honor of February being Black History Month, I’m posting some of my favorite memoirs written by Black authors. Most are older books (oldies but goodies) read some years ago, since I’ve only recently had some life changes giving me … Continue reading

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Poetry Can Be Lifewriting

April is National Poetry Month, a time when I like to tell people that poetry can be a kind of life writing. When my daughters were children, I wrote poems to document my feelings for them during their stages of … Continue reading

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