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 don't know about others, but
As anything puts all efforts
To come into existence; like
A tiny seed tears apart
The hard soil before growing
Same way; like
A mother experiences latitude
Before bearing a child
And the gestural condition of
A Prophet before devine revelation
Like; a volcano turns red, ferocious
And fierce before eruption
As the sea bashes it's head
Against the shore before a hurricane
The contingency of independence
That creates turmoil and resistance
Before holding it's final status
The same way I feel
Untill and unless,
I indite my mental milieu
On the paper; which turns
Into a poetry.