Poet Liz Brennan (who I’m happy to claim as my writing buddy for the last five plus years) and I have finally gotten around to collaborating with poetry, thanks to Liz’s gentle invitation and perseverance (I’m eternally grateful as I’ve been suffering from a poetry lull, having allowed the hats of editing, blogging, interviewing, teaching, to eclipse the midnight muse).
Liz’s blog reminds me of a mobius strip; she’s arrived at an ingenious structure, each week posting a tiny prose poem that begins, Perhaps….Followed by a second prose poem that begins, Maybe…
Here are our first two collaborations, with others in the wings:
Beauty to Memory
The Scarf (here, the obsession with Amelia Earhart—how could it not—goes on, so if you liked this poem and you haven’t seen the photo poem montage yet—a prior collaboration with photographer Robyn Beattie, check it out here:
Amelia
Here are our first two collaborations, with others in the wings:
I love your first collaborative works. I'm jealous - I wish I had someone to work with as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa...I'll take the jealousy as a gift, a compliment, a sign of future collaborative energy between you and I...after our AROHO Speaks Interview Team commitments subside? I'm game if you are.
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