#amwriting
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Another morning shifts into view like frost receding from rooftops, the unexpected cold of April’s end. The sheets are warm with your body, the imprint next to me where your hand pressed the mattress. Now entropy. I have to leave this space and wake the baby. I finger the edge of the comforter will-less to…
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Bright cold sun of April, the northwest winds whipping your cheeks red and spreading the first of the season’s pollen. Shock of yellow Daffodils holding on through sleet and snow cover reminders of the coming warmth. You pick handfuls of stems and spread them on the concrete leaving trails of green against the composite like…
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The elusive sonnet. Shakespearean, Petrarchan, traditional or modern, love them or hate them. There’s so much scholarship out there about sonnets, but my favorite is definitely Stephen Fry’s section on sonnets from The Ode Less Travelled. Learning about ancient metered poetic forms from a comedian really does it for me! Here’s an excerpt: So for…
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I am thrilled to share another wonderful April of poetry with you all! Local highlights this month include: -April 7, Flying Words Project at Kent State -April 9, “How Do We Talk To Each Other?” The Cleveland Humanities Festival -April 21, Ekphrastacy at Heights Arts -April 24-May 1, Lakefront Cleveland Poetry Festival, including workshops, open…
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So happy to announce that I have been awarded the 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council! I am thrilled to be named among so many talented Ohio artists and so grateful for the recognition of the council for my body of work. The poems that I submitted represent such a labor of…
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We need poems and poets now more than ever. If ever a group of humans existed who could see the world through a broken lens, a skewed lens, a rosy lens, it is poets. I am so glad I can speak about the world and read what truths other poets have gifted us. Thank you,…
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1 – The Fool 2 – Satellites in Orbit 3 – The Letter “E” appears in odd numbers. You cannot use the letter “E”. 4 – “I used to be a roller coaster girl” jessica Care moore 5 – Write the moment you decide to cut a corner. 6 – Kigo – write a haiku…
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 