Category Theme of the Month

Aug 31 2013

Word and Theme of the Month

Hi everyone,

TA DA! Here are the Word of the Month and Theme of the Month words for September.

Thanks to Mary Nida Smith, the theme is WEATHER MOODS.

And here are the Word of the Month words for the next three months.

September’s word, provided by B.j. Lee, is BOSK.
October’s word, provided by Deborah Holt Williams, is MAY.
November’s word, provided by Renee La Tulippe, is AWNING.

Jun 26 2013

Running out of June

Hi everyone,

A gentle reminder that we’re winding down the month. If you haven’t posted your poems yet, the Word of the Month word is HARRUMPH and the theme is FOOD.

On Monday I’ll announce the new word for July. The theme for July is RELATIVES, suggested by Janet Kay Gallagher. I’m predicting a record number of poets will turn out for that one!

David

Jun 1 2013

Word of the Month and Theme of the Month for June

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your patience while I attend to some work that has to be done. I’ll be back presently. For now, though, I thank everyone for joining me in May to celebrate our first ever theme of the month, which was FISHING. We also had a bumper crop of poems and comments based on the word of the month — FOG. My thanks to Don Barrett and Mary Nida Smith, respectively, for supplying them.

Now it’s time to turn another page in the calendar and take on June, the last month of the first half of 2013. I can’t imagine how we got so far into the year already!

The word for June, thanks to Jeanne Poland, is HARRUMPH.

The theme, thanks to Linda Baie, is FOOD, which can include various aspects of it, such as preparation.

So there you have it. Good luck everyone. Welcome to newcomers who join us along the way and thanks to all who make this blog a comfortable place to write and talk about your work.

David

May 26 2013

Taking a little break

BULLETIN: Stop what you’re doing and go do this: http://www.nowaterriver.com/poetry-friday-poems-from-the-writers-renaissance-florence-italy . Renee LaTulippe has presented us with yet another wonderful experience, including our friends Julie Hedlund, Cory Corrado, and others at Julie’s recent Writers’ Renaissance workshop in Italy!

Hi everyone,

I need to break away for a while to catch up with and/or meet various deadlines. I hope to see more WORD OF THE MONTH and THEME OF THE MONTH poems come in. If you haven’t joined in yet, there’s still time. Remember that the word is fog (thanks to Mary Nida Smith) and the theme is fishing (thanks to Don Barrett).

I’ll be around and will chime in when I can. I’ll also announce the new theme for June. I already gave you the words for the next several months but here they are again.

June’s word, provided by Jeanne Poland, is HARRUMPH.
July’s word, provided by Don Barrett, is BOWL.
August’s word, provided by Linda Baie, is TRAIN.
September’s word, provided by B. J. Lee, is BOSK.
October’s word, provided by Deborah Holt Williams, is MAY.
November’s word, provided by Renee LaTulippe, is AWNING.

For anyone traveling, be safe.

David