Welcome to my Poet Lady Chat Room. I would like to invite you to click on the chat box and type in a question, a suggestion, submit a poem, in other words – “chat with me.” I may, if you submit a poem, decide to feature it in my Poem of the Week section or, we may simply exchange ideas and suggestions about your poem.
This is a place to “talk” poetry with someone who has loved it all her life. I have a true passion for the possibilities of poetry and would love to hear your thoughts and/or read your poem. I will be happy to offer my reaction to your work and, based on over 40 years of teaching poetry, organizing, and conducting poetry workshops, working as a book review editor for an international poetry magazine, authoring five books of poetry and two textbooks on teaching poetry, send along my thoughts on ways to make your poem stronger and more impactful.
If you’re on my site, you have a connection to poetry. Feel free to connect with me – right here -right now, by typing your message into the “chat box” and clicking send. I’m waiting…
Your friend in poetry, Susan
FEATURED POEM
Grey-Garlander foots over the busy street,
Greeting whomsoever his eyes meet.
Hurdles a dog over the casket of wines,
While the butcher welcomes a new-white-swine.
Around the corner, at the baker’s,
Jane sells hot pies, sweet tarts that pleases Connoisseur.
Little pink tutus peeking from the window,
Twigs and strands build the house of a sparrow.
Children of Sunday, plays and lays in the park
A Ladybug’s picnic flashes her tiny polka dots.
Poor Anna did a little dance,
On Postman’s arrival.
With a mammoth letter in his hand,
He hands over a foreign stamped one.
Anna’s grandmother left a will in her name.
She will not end up as a lonesome dame.