Jumping Back in to Poetry Friday
It’s been years since I posted on Poetry Friday, a community of poets who post their poetry or about poetry each Friday. I’ve been working on writing poetry daily for about a year, so I’m going to attempt to share some of that here. I’ve also been sharing my poetry via gifts and postcards too. I can’t promise the poetry or the photography will be stellar, but I hope to have a few gems every now and then.
Looking for more information about Poetry Friday? Here’s a great post about it. Here is the list of Poetry Friday hosts for 2022 (see the right hand column).
My two words for 2022 are NATURE and NURTURE. I’m trying to spend more time in nature and doing activities that fill the well (the nurture part). My focus for now is haiku + photography.
This week’s host is Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
What I’m Reading
I have a practice where I read three poems a day and take notes on them. Some days I jot down lots of notes about what the poet is doing. Sometimes, I just might note the form of the poem. Each week, I’ll also share what I’m reading in the world of poetry collections or poetry craft.
I just finished LACE & PYRITE: LETTERS FROM TWO GARDENS by Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. It’s a collection of epistolary poems they wrote to each other about their gardens. I’m a bit of a fangirl of Aimee’s and I’ve read as much of her work as I can get my hands on.
27 Comments
Irene Latham
Dear Marcie, welcome back to Poetry Friday! I love your icy sidewalk art and the project itself! Also, just requested Lace & Pyrite. Thank you! x
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks so much, Irene! I think you’ll love LACE & PYRITE. I’m obsessed with her work.
Rose Cappelli
So good to see you here, Marcie! Your haiku and photo are quite lovely – “swirls and swoops” just roll off the tongue. And I just ordered Lace and Pyrite. Thanks for the suggestion!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks, Rose! I hope you love it!
Elisabeth
What a wonderful haiku – I love “winter’s sidewalk art” and the photo matches the poem perfectly. Thanks for sharing these with us today!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much, Elisabeth!
Janice Scully
Ice patterns are a perfect subject for a haiku! Thank you for joining us and sharing it and for the book recommendation. I’ll check it out.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks for reading, Janice!
Karin Fisher-Golton
I’m participating in Poetry Friday for the first time in a long while today too! I’m in my ninth year of writing a poem-a-day in February. I find regular poetry writing practice powerful and full of happy surprises. I’m intrigued and impressed to read about what you are doing. I love the words you’ve chosen–nature and nurture. There’s so much there. And the haiku and photo you’ve shared are beautiful. I’m glad I stopped by!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Nine years is amazing! And you’re right, a regular poetry practice is powerful. I stopped for one month to do NaNoWriMo and I missed it so much!
Bridget Magee
Your poem + photo are so ‘cool’, Marcie. 😉
Thanks for the Lace and Pyrite recommendation.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks so much, Bridget. I hope you love the book. I’m always in awe of Aimee’s work.
Linda
Marcie, your haiku is beautiful and matches the photo so well. I love your 2022 words, Nature and Nurture.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much, Linda! I love having focus words, but it’s the first year I’ve done 2 (but they are connected, so that helps).
Janet Clare F.
Welcome, back, Marcie and I think I am meeting you for the first time. I don’t have a blog but my heart is and has been at Poetry Friday for years so I comment as often as much as I can. I guest blog a bit. I love your ideas here. And also I just took a course on Canva among other things with Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell, the Anthologies 301 course that dealt with graphics in creating postcards and also videos. So helpful, though I have not worked on mine too much yet. I also like your practice of 3 poems a day. That is a doable goal and I am sure it makes you feel like you have really accomplished something important. There can never be too much poetry for me. Your haiku is lovely!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
So nice to meet you. Yes, I love Canva. I also have been sending out poetry postcards too. Really looking forward to taking the Anthologies courses soon. The poems a day is so doable. I write one haiku, then read and take quick notes on the three poems. Takes less than 10 minutes usually.
Mary Lee Hahn
Welcome back! I love your haiku — that kind of ice was my favorite for stomping when I was a kid! And I’m SO borrowing your 3 poems a day practice! What a great idea!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Hi Mary Lee! It’s been so long since NCTE 2019! Yes! I hope the 3 poems a day practice works well for you! It is fast, but with consistency, I’ve read more poetry since I started that practice than I’ve read in all of the other years combined.
Linda Baie
Welcome back, Marcie. We’ve had our share of “Winter’s Sidewalk art” this past week, now I’m looking for a new kind of art, in spring! Thank you for the recommendation!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yes to spring sidewalk art! Maybe the scattered petals from trees on sidewalks? I’ll be looking for that very soon!
Linda Mitchell
Oh, I’m so glad you are back at Poetry Friday! How wonderful too, to see all those books with your name on them. I like your practice of taking notes on poems. I may have to steal that idea.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Hi Linda! Yes, feel free to steal. I have learned so much from taking notes on poems each day. It’s quick with big impact.
PATRICIA J FRANZ
“Winter’s sidewalk art” — perfect! I have yet to try composing a poem with/from a picture, but I do love seeing your haiku photography poems. Thank you for opening up this as inspiration for me.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thanks so much, Patricia! Try it! It’s fun!
Carol Varsalona
Great to meet you, Marcie. Your image poem is just lovely.The end line offer a lasting impression. I am creating a winter gallery of artistic expressions and if your are willing I would love to add your haiku image poem to my Winter’s Embrace Gallery. You can find the invitation to the gallery at https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2022/02/uncertainty.html.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you, Carol. Yes, you are welcome to add the haiku and image to the Winter’s Embrace Gallery.
Carol Varsalona
Thank you, Marcie. I am excited to add a new face to the gallery.