In addition to my native garden inspired Haiku for every day in April I am also happy to be able to share permission to do a few audio recordings of some poems from Hugging the Rock to help celebrate National Poetry Month.
http://www.susantaylorbrown.com/audio/Dr
CREDIT LINE: Posted with permission from Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown. Copyright 2006 by Susan Taylor Brown, Tricycle Press, Berkeley, CA.
The Poetry Friday roundup today is at Becky's Book Reviews.
Listen to other poems from the book!
NO ROOM
THE ROCK
So here, for the very first time, is an audio of the first poem in the book. It's called, NO ROOM. I hope you like it. (Special thanks to Lee Wind for the idea!)
Read about the evolution of the poem NO ROOM from its inception.
If the player doesn't work, you can try this:
http://www.susantaylorbrown.com/audio/No
The full Poetry Friday round-up can be found at Ayuddha
CREDIT LINE: Posted with permission from Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown.
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Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
Susan Taylor Brown
Create Your Badge
"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties."
--Bonnie Friedman
"As writers, we must be willing to feel our sadness, our anger, our terror, so we can reach in and find our sweet vulnerability that is just sitting there waiting for us to come back home."
--Nancy Slonim Aronie
"Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is."
--Anne Rice
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