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
I too, am iron man…
My walls, were iron
No brick ever laid
Only the floor was cemented
though with cracks so I’d always have grass to play with
the food, came in tin cans, which were iron too,
Though… iron walls sound pleasant when it rains,
The iron house between brick homes,
The iron house with no windows but the holes were wide enough to glimpse at the glimmering candle,
The iron house that made the boy with the iron heart,
The iron house that all the other kids would stare and whisper about,
Though… sleeping on the floor meant I’d have no monster beneath my bed.