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Fall Song

October 21, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

fall trees

Nature gifted us with a warm, sunny autumn afternoon. Not knowing how many more days we'll have before it gets cold, my husband and I went hiking in Stoney Creek Metropark. I paired my pictures with a … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal Tagged With: Mary Oliver, nature, poetry

How to Make a Literary Scarf

June 10, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Mary Oliver literary scarf

Lovers of the written word: The late Mary Oliver's poetry is both brilliant, down to earth, and so often quoted. I've seen literary scarves with text from Pride and Prejudice, Alice in Wonderland, … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Art & Crafting Tagged With: literary scarf, Mary Oliver, poetry

What, Why, How: Mary Jo Firth Gillett

April 15, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: Since the earliest days, I’ve been drawn to language, the sound of consonant, vowel, syllable.  My parents made a recording of me at three reciting nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme in … Continue reading >>

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What, Why, How: Dorene O’Brien

April 8, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What? I have published poetry and essays, but at heart I am a fiction writer. My first story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, is a group of gritty, unflinching, largely tragic stories told … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: Detroit, Fiction, poetry, short stories

Blackout Poetry – as creative as you want to get

March 18, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

A mix of writing and visual art All you need to make blackout poetry is imagination and the ability to let your mind take creative leaps with given text. Even my logical, engineer-minded husband … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Art & Crafting, Writing Tagged With: blackout poems, blackout poetry, erasure poems, poetry, writing

What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski

February 18, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: asian american, Fiction, flash fiction, memoir, poetry, short stories

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a picture book which she wrote and illustrated, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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