Today’s guest poetry poster is Susan Taylor Brown, who submitted an audio file for her post and oh, I am so happy she did. When she starts to read her poem, after explaining how it came to her, I got shivers.
Thank you, Susan!
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Check out Susan’s blog for National poetry month and get a Kick the Poetry Can’ts. She’ll be sharing the various ways she teaches poetry, with exercises she does. She’ll post them and invite readers to play along. They’ll be posted here.
Renee LaTulippe
April 5, 2012 - 3:12 pm ·Beautiful reading, Susan! I’ve been intrigued by this form since the poetry tournament – will have to have a go!
Also love Poppiness and will be going back as we plan our own new garden! So much inspiration in gardening, no? Thanks for this lovely post!
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 4:39 pm ·Thanks, Renee. I’ll be expecting pantoums from you in the future! And thanks for checking out the garden site too. I do get much inspiration from the garden. When I’m blocked, that’s where I head first.
Penny Klostermann
April 5, 2012 - 2:26 pm ·I visited your native garden site. Wow! Thanks for sharing your beautiful poem and teaching me about a poetry form that was unfamiliar to me.
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 3:43 pm ·Thank you, Penny. I hope you’ll be inspired to give a pantoum a try!
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 3:43 pm ·And thanks for visiting the garden site too!
Jim Averbeck
April 5, 2012 - 12:34 pm ·Love that last line. Wow.
katie
April 5, 2012 - 12:51 pm ·Jim! So nice to “see” you here! I agree about the last line. I got such shivers!
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 1:23 pm ·Love that you loved the last line, Jim! I actually had the last line before I had anything else and I wrote the poem to get to the ending. When it all came together, I sorta gasped a bit because it did just what I wanted it to do.
Laura Purdie Salas
April 5, 2012 - 12:17 pm ·Loved hearing Susan read this. What a beautiful poem–and a soothing, strong reading of it. Thanks, Katie and Susan!
katie
April 5, 2012 - 12:22 pm ·Me too. I’d never even heard of the phrase “pantoum poem” and I have TWO poets doing different pantoums for Poetry Month!
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 1:22 pm ·Thanks, Laura. I had such fun doing the recording of it (though the dog was a little curious as to why I was talking to myself for so long.)
jama
April 5, 2012 - 11:37 am ·Loved hearing Susan read her poem and enjoyed the backstory. Thanks to both of you!
katie
April 5, 2012 - 12:02 pm ·I loved hearing it too! So glad you enjoyed it.
Susan Taylor Brown
April 5, 2012 - 1:21 pm ·Glad you enjoyed, Jama! Thanks for listening.