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
O dear poetry!
Get me to the realm of Wordsworth
So that I could elaborate on nature
Candle some imaginative thoughts in my mind
So that I could also celebrate you.
O dear Poetry!
Take me to the Dover Beach
Where I could encounter what Milton and other poets had
Throw me on the ship of those pilgrimages
Where everyone had to express two stories
O dear Poetry!
I'm scribbling right now to homage you
To bestow some kind of fraction to literature
Though I'm neither Keats nor Shelley
But I crave to go beyond them in imagination.
O dear poetry!
send Calliope in my dream
I wish to exchange some words with her
Bring some blessings of Aphrodite
I want to bride her for my beloved.