Hey friends — I don’t know what happened to summer, but whoosh! I got so turned around I missed last month’s prompt, which means I missed you too! So. As a reminder, my poetry sisters and I are working with an overarching theme of conversation this year, and this month we’re being especially overt about... Read more » The post Poetry Project — August, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
And just like that, April’s a wrap. Thanks for joining me, friends, whether you read along or wrote a few haiku yourselves. Each year, even as I have to scratch my lines out last minute at bedtime, even as I press enter on a real clunker or two, I’m grateful for the practice, and for... Read more » The post Haiku 30 — April 30, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
The desire to soften. To be vulnerable. To open up. Right when the world seems to be saying nope… Haiku 29 April 29 Buh bye, comfort zone Snail stretches beyond himself Can he trust this world? #lizsharespoems #30daysofhaiku #NationalPoetryMonth The post Haiku 29 — April 29, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
I wrote my April 28th haiku in bed last night, just in the nick of time, and posted it on Instagram and facebook but not here. So, correcting that now! Haiku 28 April 28 Squirrels deserve seed too (I’m egalitarian) They take a mile #lizsharespoems #30daysofhaiku #NationalPoetryMonth The post Haiku 28 — April 28, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
Look at this little slip of a thing who joined me on my stroll around the neighborhood today (until she turned around and trotted home). It was just after I’d been introduced to the sweetest old Chesapeake Bay retriever with rheumy eyes, and right before I met a woman pressing seaglass into wet concrete to... Read more » The post Haiku 27 — April 27, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
The best thing (the only decent thing?) about having insomnia is never missing an early morning… Haiku 26 April 26, 2025 Coffee, the paper The yolky light of morning I’m the early bird #lizsharespoems #30daysofhaiku #NationalPoetryMonth The post Haiku 26 — April 26, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
Haiku 25 April 25, 2025 Delicious beauty Feeding our conversation Luck beyond measure #lizsharespoems #30daysofhaiku #NationalPoetryMonth The post Haiku 25 — April 25, 2025 appeared first on Liz Garton Scanlon.| Liz Garton Scanlon
This month we used vintage photographs as our jumping off point for writing ekphrastic poems. There were no other rules at all, except that we are using this overarching (underlying?) theme of conversation this year. My photograph is one my maternal grandfather took of me as a toddler. I’m walking on the beach, alongside Lake... Read more »| Liz Garton Scanlon
Author of over a dozen award-winning picture books, novels The Great Good Summer and Lolo's Gift, and The Bibsy Cross chapter book series.| Liz Garton Scanlon
This month, my poetry sisters and I decided on epistolary poems — poems written in the form of letters, diary entries, text messages, and the like. And (because February) we thought, why not make them love letters or Valentines? When we met over Zoom to get ourselves started, I thought I was going to write... Read more »| Liz Garton Scanlon
The prompt: A Raccontino (this form is essentially Golden Shovel meets rhymed verse) The theme of the year: Conversation The admission: This is very very very last minute and I’m squeaking in under the wire. But ok! I’m here! Read on! Can you Listen “Can you listen without interpreting, without your prejudices interfering –... Read more »| Liz Garton Scanlon
Whoa, boy. If there is a form of poetry that takes your hand and leads you off the garden path completely, it’s the Golden Shovel. In case you need a refresher, here’s how one works: First, you choose a line from a poem you admire or want to tip your hat to. In this case,... Read more »| Liz Garton Scanlon
All is not well in the world, that much is clear. But connecting to and conversing with each other? It’s something. It’s something we can do. This year, my long-time poetry sisters and I are going to work with an overarching theme of conversation — and in an appropriately meta twist, we’d love for you... Read more »| Liz Garton Scanlon
