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
The past,
A strong gut of regret
And the ever-ringing voices;
Pain,
Where the thorax meets the abdomen---
A kind, of unknown origin,
Or varied ---
A liver that has given up,
Or nights spent sitting on the living room floor,
Or cups, stained with lipstick and coffee,
A head that belonged on the stakes ---
That could see things, one shouldn't.
One wouldn't write,
If one could afford to;
For one ages faster
But never dies
In poetry.
Death ---
Stars,
Young lovers,
Children and good fathers,
Evil rarely deserve death.
My bones ache too much
To carry my soul well.