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
If I could write about you,
With the same force that drives my thoughts,
Ruthlessly, relentlessly
Devouring my existence in the blink of an eye,
I'd stay up all those nights I wasted dreaming of you
And torture myself into agony
Till you're begging to be released from the prison of my mind
Out in the form of beautiful words.
I'd learn your movements, and the thunder of your footfall
Your heavy breathing at my shoulder, urging me on and on
I'd write till my wits collapse
I'll write till I'm chock-full of sea water and cigarette smoke in my lungs.