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
My grandma always sang me to sleep
"there lived an angel in the cerulean sky
wove sapphire yarns embroidered with
lilac, pink and crimson fleece
people called it sunset
sometimes she blotted them grey
her tears kissed the earth
leaving behind her scent and bow
people called it rain
every dawn, birds twittered her a visit
rooster hailed cock-a-doodle-doo
so merrily she embroidered them golden
breathed tender breeze swaying trees
people called it sunrise"
one night my grandma sang herself to sleep
her woven neverland forever lost
until I became a grandma and sang
"there lived an angel in the cerulean sky
embroidered with silver and multitudes
of orbs tucked in constellations
people called it night sky..."