She highlights poetry books coming in 2021.
The Sunday Night Swaggers have entered this new year with a challenge from Heidi Mordhorst. We’ve all read and admired the new poetry collection from Irene Latham, This Poem is a Nest. I reviewed her book on this post.
Irene created the term nestling, which is similar to a found poem. She started with her own poem and found new poems within it. I decided to start with a poem I wrote for Heidi for the Winter Poem Swap.
Essence of Heidi
There you are rolling Play-doh balls,
placing them onto a fake birthday cake,
lighting each candle
deep breath in, then screen-blow–
a ritual of celebration, exclamation
of You Matter!
There you are creating a caterpillar’s undoing,
how it digests itself
to become something miraculous,
shouting the great wonder–
a ritual of changing, shedding the old,
in silence.
There you are writing words,
passion-pulsed onto the page
to inspire a child or grown-up–
a ritual of reading aloud, praise
for turn-the-page, frosted ice
melting into a poem.
–Margaret Simon, 2020 Winter poem swap
Here are my nestlings…
| Happy Birthday! Play-Doh cake in celebration of You! | Writing Teacher Words inspire-up praise. | Picture Book Lighting a miraculous child, then turn-the-page |
| Autumn Undoing– become shedding silence | Peek-a-Boo There, There, there you are. | Irene’s Nest Ritual of passion pulsed the page into poem |
Read more nestlings from my friends.
Molly Hogan: Nix the Comfort Zone
Linda Mitchell: A Word Edgewise
Catherine Flynn: Reading to the Core
Heidi Mordhorst: My Juicy Little Universe
