The Big Poetry Giveaway

 

The Big Poetry Giveaway

April is National Poetry Month, but we’re starting early.

Anyone with a blog can give away 2 books of poems. Anyone with an email address can enter any or all of the giveaways. Yes, poetry is that easy! You can give it away and you can also sign-up to receive it! You don't need a blog to participate, you just need to visit different participating blogs.

So, I decided to participate.

A few things about me:

1. I am an avid birder, very excited to see the migrants returning.

2. My sixth book of poems, Vexed Questions, will be published by Aldrich Press in the summer of 2013.

3. I love to bake bread.

4. I have an Amish grandfather.

5. One of my dreams is to go back to visit Ireland, where I haven’t been since 1970.

6. I have a relationship with God.

7. Cape May New Jersey is my second favorite place in the world.

8. My favorite place is Emmitsburg, Maryland, where I live. Here it is:

I’ll be giving away two books:

1.     1.   My book  Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky

 

 

22.  Mary Oliver’s book  Evidence

Here’s a poem from my book, about poetry , and the wonderful poet Josephine Jacobsen:

One word singing

Poetry is one word singing one word singing

In the middle of the night.

Poetry sings what no one cries.

Poetry slips in between the covers of the facts.

Josephine told me

The astronauts did

Take a spider with them.

She died there

In the spaceship.

Her net wouldn’t hold

In the weightless air.

Josephine told me

From her hospital bed

When she could not read or walk.

But she still sang poems

In the middle of the night.

Sang between the covers

Of her body

Retreating

To the weightless air.

If you need more information on how to participate in this giveaway, go to Susan Rich's blog,

The Alchemist's Kitchen:

 http://thealchemistskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/03/sign-up-now-to-participate-in-big.html