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
For the splendid art of versification
I have found an adoration recently
But uninitiated in it's intricacies
Is quite sadly what I happen to be
I possess no knowledge of composition
Nor do I know of devices poetic
Yet through utilization of some hacks
My verses turn out far from pathetic
In the sea of my subpar linguistic skills
On tides of vocabularic deficiency
My boat of hack poetry stays afloat
Due to my thesaurus raiding frequency
A simple consistency of syllables
Effectively conceals my incompetence
And by the grace of fancy synonyms
I merrymake in my feigned eloquence
My expertise in the concept of rhythm
Is a hundred percent non-existent
so I switch and shift my words around
Until the piece sounds fairly pleasant
Very shamelessly I search the internet
In pursuit of rhymes for the words I tote
And in this way despite my shortcomings
I row forth in my hack poetry boat