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Chatting with Chick from Chick & Biscuit
For National Poetry Month, we set out to explore different types of poetry. Since songwriting is a beautiful and creative way to express poetic thought, we turned to our own award-winning Emily Dunlap Carter whose recent exploration into songwriting has already won her and husband John Carter recognition from American Songwriter Magazine. Let’s start with a fun question, what is your favorite song and why? My favorite song of all time is “Boys of Summer” by Don Henley – good memories of my youth associated with this song. I’ve always been a Henley fan. After writing creative nonfiction
A sneak peek with Malaika King Albrecht
On April 15, Malaika King Albrecht will be leading the poetry workshop "Zen Telegrams and Other Prompts for Writing Epistolary Poems" at our one-day Quadrennial Conference. She was kind enough to write a post for our blog to inspire you for National Poetry Month. Thank you, Malaika! National Poetry Month is a time to celebrate poetry in all its forms. This week, we’re focusing on epistolary poems in advance of the Carteret Writers Quadrennial Conference on Saturday, April 15. I'm excited to facilitate a workshop on writing epistolary poems and hope you can join us! An
A Poem a Day: Start Your Engines
Some poets I know are trying to write one poem each day for the month of April—National Poetry Month. If you, like I, tend to write not according to a schedule, but only when inspiration strikes, this is a challenge that puts even experienced poets back at the starting gate. Fiction writers or memoirists, for example, have the arc of a plot or the development of a character that, with discipline, they can pursue even when the creative well seems to have run dry. How to approach a poem, when no compelling theme or epiphany seems to be working
Celebrating National Poetry Month: Ekphrastic Writing Contest winners inspired by Art From the Heart exhibition
In honor of National Poetry Month, we would like to share the poems that our talented members wrote for our inaugural Ekphrastic Writing Contest in February. The Arts Council of Carteret County’s Art From the Heart show offered a collection of artworks in different forms, and our members wrote poems inspired by many of the sculptures, paintings, and textile art on display. Carteret Writer Deborah Llewellyn was our contest winner with her poem “Butterfly Lessons,” which was inspired by artist Jill Harner's "Great Spangled Fritillary." Butterfly Lessons Deborah Llewellyn Inspired by Jill Harner's "Great Spangled Fritillary" The
Interview with Tom Kies
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