reading a new book

On January 4, 2021January 5, 2021 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Artists, Books, Country Life, Creative At Home, Creative Reading and Writing, Education, Haiku, Haiku Sites, Large Print Post, Libraries, Lifelong Learning, Poetry

reading a new book
the fragrance
of fresh paper

reading the poets

On August 17, 2020 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Books, Creative Reading and Writing, Hope, Literature, Poetry

reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return

Ellen Grace Olinger

SMILE, 2010

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).

reading poems aloud

On April 27, 2019April 27, 2019 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Creative Notes, Creative Reading and Writing, Education, Language Arts, Poetry, Tanka

Easter And Spring Poetry

reading poems aloud
raindrops on windows
I remember how Helen Keller
learned water

SMILE – 2010

This version appeared in another journal:

reading poems aloud
raindrops on the windows
reminds me how
Helen Keller
learned “water”

Time Of Singing
Volume 38, Number 2
Summer 2011

I appreciate the ideas of editors and publishers. And I remember the moment that inspired the poems!

Ellen Grace Olinger

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Creative Reading and Writing

On February 9, 2019 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Beauty, Creative Reading and Writing, Creativity, Haiku, Language, Poetry, Teaching Poetry

reading novels
I think of how sentences
can become poems

This is a second haiku about reading from August 2013. I have to pause and remember what I was trying to say. I added the word “can.”

Sometimes an author describes a place so well, while telling a story, that I think of a poem – the land, the colors, the light. And I think about how writing our notes and observations in a journal can be the beginning of a poem later.

Often when I write a new poem for a blog post, I have been reading for a time. The wonder and beauty of language. Then I look outside, and am inspired once again by the same views.

I read memoirs and poetry by Luci Shaw. Her gift with poetry is a natural part of her prose. I see how writing in one area, can help us with work in another form as well.

Ellen Grace Olinger
August 2013 and February 2019
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Troutswirl: The Haiku Foundation Blog

On July 1, 2018 By Ellen Grace OlingerIn Art, Blogging, Creative Reading and Writing, Education, Haiku, Higher Education, Language Arts, Literature, Poetry, The Haiku Foundation

I’ve mentioned the Haiku Registry at The Haiku Foundation.

You may be interested in Jim Kacian’s post, Hello and Goodbye at The Haiku Registry. After a decade of service, Billie Wilson has stepped down from this work. Marta Chocilowska is the new manager.