by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. Before you read my poem “Araminta,” I must tell you the amazing story of my characters’ names . . . I needed a name. In fact, I needed two names. Not just any names. One had to begin with the sound /n/ and have three syllables. The...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday I’m so glad you stop by to join me and the #PoetryFriday community with Robyn Hood Black over at Life on the Deckle Edge to wish a Happy Birthday to Lee Bennett Hopkins — award-winning children’s author, poet, anthologist, and editor, and a...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday * Celebrate This Week I am celebrating National Poetry Month by reading poetry, writing poetry, and reflecting on poetry. Reading Poetry. Each morning this past week I’ve opened my screen to read a poem by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 30. * Poetry Friday This week as I read “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?” — an essay from God in the Dock by C.S. Lewis, words and phrases expressing uniquely Lewis’s thoughts about Jesus’...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No 23. * Poetry Friday With a haunting beauty, Marie Post captures the antithesis between Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and his arrest, trial, and crucifixion later in the week. Palm Sunday Astride the colt and...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March Slice of Life No. 16 * Poetry Friday. I. Slicing with green– I have already selected something green to wear on Saturday, lest I forget and one of my kids or grandkids come by. I know they won’t forget. And since Saturday is St. Patrick’s...
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