Some weeks I think the good reads will lean toward poetry, and some weeks I think they’ll lean toward prose. And some weeks they lean toward both simultaneously, like they did this week.
Poetry
“American profits – when I am part of the problem” by Fred Sprinkle.
“If You Were Here” by Lesley Moon at Moondustwriter.
“Theory of Equine Economics” by Lorenzo at Crowned With Laurels.
“We were digging” and "Lightly Now” by Melissa at All the Words.
“Trouble Comes to Dry Gulch” by Rob Kistner at Image & Verse.
“Hours before the dawn” and “Silent Speeches” by Justinian at Delight and Glory and Oddity and Light.
“Cinders Path” by Pete Marshall.
“Movin on” by Nancy Rosback at Poems and Prayers.
“Eat Well, My Son” by Karen Eck at Phoenix-Karenee.
“Ode to a White Dog” by Marcus Goodyear at Good Word Editing.
Prose
“Hal” by Nancy Rosback at Poems and Prayers.
“A Summer Place” by John Blasé at Dirty Shame.
“Cairns of Enchantment” by Kathleen Overby at Almost Paradisical.
“The road is life” and “In the silence of my heart” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy.
“The Razor’s Edge” by Jeff Jordan at To My Children, If They Are Listening.
“Walker Percy and the Century of Merde” by Andy Whitman at The Image Journal.
“Change” by Duane Scott.
"I Just Couldn't Help Myself" by Billy Coffey.
“The Making of a Marriage Bed” by Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience.
“Absorbing Black” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.
“Redeeming Time” by Deidra at Jumping Tandem.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday Good Reads
There were a considerable number of good things to read on the web last week, with a special section just for Easter.
Poetry
Marcus Goodyear’s “The Poetry of Money.”
Two by Melissa at All the Words: “En route” and "What Face Now."
Two by Justinian: “Brokenness” and “Not too sure.”
“Chew on This” by nAncY at Poems and Prayers.
“Redemption” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.
“Short,” by Kelly Langner Sauer.
“Reason to Write” by Phoenix Karenee.
“Pieces” by David Rupert.
"Acid Washed Love" by Phoenix Karenee.
And two sonnets:
“To That Humble Cot Upon Which I Daily Lay My Head” by Erin Kilmer at Together For Good.
"Lenten Sonnet" by David Koyzis at Evangel.
Easter
An Easter egg hunt. “Finders and Hiders,” by Billy Coffey at The Master’s Artist.
Chrystie Cole's “The Whole Earth Sings.”
“Does Christ Have Fans or Followers: On the Road to Calvary” by Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience.
“Easter: Expectations” by Shaun Groves.
“The Real Meaning of Easter?” By Chaplain Mike at InternetMonk.
“A Son’s Wisdom,” another good one by Billy Coffey.
“Peeps: The Epic Battle,” a review of Easter candy by Kathy Richards.
"Good Friday," by Sarah M. Salter. Great collection of Easter songs on YouTube.
"One Brilliant Show," by David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.
Easter Video
There are a lot of videos about Good Friday and Easter posted this week; this is one of the best I’ve seen. “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Coming,” the famous sermon put to video and posted at Christian Manifesto. Really, really, good.
Prose
Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy: “If you don’t like what you’re doing: Stop it!” and “Leaving the World Better Off.”
“I Was Normal, Then I Wrote My First Story,” by K.M. Weiland at The Master’s Artist.
“Top 10 Worst Creativity Tips of All Time,” by Demian Farnworth via Kathy Richards
“Whitman at Gettysburg,” by Andy Whitman at The Image Journal.
“10 Things I Did on My Retreat,” by Cassandra Frear.
Poetry
Marcus Goodyear’s “The Poetry of Money.”
Two by Melissa at All the Words: “En route” and "What Face Now."
Two by Justinian: “Brokenness” and “Not too sure.”
“Chew on This” by nAncY at Poems and Prayers.
“Redemption” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.
“Short,” by Kelly Langner Sauer.
“Reason to Write” by Phoenix Karenee.
“Pieces” by David Rupert.
"Acid Washed Love" by Phoenix Karenee.
And two sonnets:
“To That Humble Cot Upon Which I Daily Lay My Head” by Erin Kilmer at Together For Good.
"Lenten Sonnet" by David Koyzis at Evangel.
Easter
An Easter egg hunt. “Finders and Hiders,” by Billy Coffey at The Master’s Artist.
Chrystie Cole's “The Whole Earth Sings.”
“Does Christ Have Fans or Followers: On the Road to Calvary” by Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience.
“Easter: Expectations” by Shaun Groves.
“The Real Meaning of Easter?” By Chaplain Mike at InternetMonk.
“A Son’s Wisdom,” another good one by Billy Coffey.
“Peeps: The Epic Battle,” a review of Easter candy by Kathy Richards.
"Good Friday," by Sarah M. Salter. Great collection of Easter songs on YouTube.
"One Brilliant Show," by David Rupert at Red-Letter Believers.
Easter Video
There are a lot of videos about Good Friday and Easter posted this week; this is one of the best I’ve seen. “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Coming,” the famous sermon put to video and posted at Christian Manifesto. Really, really, good.
Prose
Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy: “If you don’t like what you’re doing: Stop it!” and “Leaving the World Better Off.”
“I Was Normal, Then I Wrote My First Story,” by K.M. Weiland at The Master’s Artist.
“Top 10 Worst Creativity Tips of All Time,” by Demian Farnworth via Kathy Richards
“Whitman at Gettysburg,” by Andy Whitman at The Image Journal.
“10 Things I Did on My Retreat,” by Cassandra Frear.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Saturday Good Reads
Some of the good posts I found on web sites and blogs in the past week:
Poetry
“She, Stirring” by Melissa at All the Words.
"Poetry Works," four poems by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy.
"Santorini, a meditation on life," by Justinian at Discount Verbiage. Also “The Night.”
Freya Manfred’s “Green Pear Tree in September,” published by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at his American Life in Poetry.
“What Light Reveals,” by Diane Walker at Contemplative Poetry.
"Reunions: Father, July 18, 1990," by Maureen Doallas. She was worried that this one might be too personal. It was personal, but she did what poets do – she turned the personal into the universal.
"Chronos of Love," new poem by @PhoenixKarenee.
"West Washington," by Missy K. Along with Melissa’s and Maureen’s poems noted above, this one by Missy K is one of the “Life on the Street” poems featured at The High Calling blogs on Friday. They’re all worth reading.
Prose
Jeff Jordan’s “Of Boats and Bags and the Search for Faithfulness.”
David Mikics’ guide for reading “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. An outstanding piece of criticism (even I could understand it).
A completely new use for mouthwash. “You might not want to kiss me hello,” by Helen at Random Musings.
"Welcome, Memory," by Brian Volck at The Image Blog. A comment at a dinner unlocks a “memory garden.”
"Uncommon Courtesy," by Dan Wooldridge at Inside Work. Grace happens on an airplane.
"Navigating," by Corinne at Trains, Tutus and Tea. A mother defends her son.
Kathleen Overby’s "Spring Scrabble." She wants to play.
Poetry
“She, Stirring” by Melissa at All the Words.
"Poetry Works," four poems by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy.
"Santorini, a meditation on life," by Justinian at Discount Verbiage. Also “The Night.”
Freya Manfred’s “Green Pear Tree in September,” published by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at his American Life in Poetry.
“What Light Reveals,” by Diane Walker at Contemplative Poetry.
"Reunions: Father, July 18, 1990," by Maureen Doallas. She was worried that this one might be too personal. It was personal, but she did what poets do – she turned the personal into the universal.
"Chronos of Love," new poem by @PhoenixKarenee.
"West Washington," by Missy K. Along with Melissa’s and Maureen’s poems noted above, this one by Missy K is one of the “Life on the Street” poems featured at The High Calling blogs on Friday. They’re all worth reading.
Prose
Jeff Jordan’s “Of Boats and Bags and the Search for Faithfulness.”
David Mikics’ guide for reading “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. An outstanding piece of criticism (even I could understand it).
A completely new use for mouthwash. “You might not want to kiss me hello,” by Helen at Random Musings.
"Welcome, Memory," by Brian Volck at The Image Blog. A comment at a dinner unlocks a “memory garden.”
"Uncommon Courtesy," by Dan Wooldridge at Inside Work. Grace happens on an airplane.
"Navigating," by Corinne at Trains, Tutus and Tea. A mother defends her son.
Kathleen Overby’s "Spring Scrabble." She wants to play.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Virtual (Good) Reading
I read lot of stuff online (ask my wife). I will admit to having 200+ sites in my RSS reader, and I check my blog roll on Blogger (some overlap between the two but not much). And I follow links that look interesting. Not everything I run across is good, of course, but it’s usually fairly easy to tell. I found a lot of good things this week.
Poems, for example. I love reading poems; I love finding them in unexpected places and coming from unexpected people. Here are only a few:
• Nancy’s “goodnight” – short, simple and with a beautiful illustration. She’s a poet with words and a poet with a camera.
• Two by Justinian at Discount Verbiage (although he calls his blog something else) – “Taliessin in the School of the Poets” and “On Continuing to Grieve” (this one is beautiful). I came across his blog several weeks ago because of a comment he made at another blog, namely the one by
• Phoenix-Karenee. This week she posted “Adrenaline,” which I loved.
• Two by Kathleen Overby: “Bottle Cries” and “Shattered Glass.”
• “How Arguments Go,” by my friend Maureen Doallas.
• Pencil Drawn and Paper Grown: Poems by Heather Truett. This isn’t a blog post; it’s a book of poems by one of our TweetSpeak Poetry jammers. I include it here because I found it linked from Heather’s blog.
• Sarah Salter’s blog post “For Girls Only: Naked.” In this post, Sarah combines poetry, prose – and pain. And it’s not for girls only.
Then I found two short stories, or actually, one short story and one five-part short-short story.
• “The Herd” by Bart Schaneman. Bart is a young writer originally from Nebraska. At his blog, Rain Follows the Plow, he writes short stories about his home state.
• “Mama Kept Staring,” by my friend Jim Schmotzer, posted at this blog, The Faithful Skeptic. For five days, Jim posted successive parts of his short story (so up need to “read up” from the first post on Feb 28).
And then the prose. There is so much good prose being written that this short list won’t do it justice. Some of it is serious; some is funny; all of it is good.
• “An Invitation to Hell,” by Billy Coffey, one of the best storytellers writing on the web. He has a novel called Snow Day being published later this year. This blog post is about writing, which lately he’s been writing about on Fridays. Writing about writing, that is.
• “Being Unintentionally Hilarious,” a blog post by Kathy Richards at Hey Look, A Chicken! Kathy is known as Katdish on Twitter, and if don’t follow her, you better. She rules. She also rocks.
• Two by author Athol Dickson. I’m a fan of Dickson’s. I love his novels, and in fact just finished River Rising this past week. He wrote a guest article for Novel Journey entitled "Forgotten Beauty," and it is good. On his blog, he posted “The American church is dying, and to save it we must join it.” And it is good, too.
• “They Are Listening,” a blog post by Erin at Together for Good. Erin is also one of our TweetSpeak Poetry jammers. All I can say is, she has an oldest son who sounds a lot like my oldest son, 24 years ago.
• “I Am Canadian,” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy. OK, so the Canadian hockey team won the Olympic gold medal. I mean, it’s just a medal, right? It’s just a game. We’ll get over it. Maybe. In the meantime you can read one Canadian’s soul-stirring tribute to her country, and (if you're an American) you won't feel so bad about who lost.
Poems, for example. I love reading poems; I love finding them in unexpected places and coming from unexpected people. Here are only a few:
• Nancy’s “goodnight” – short, simple and with a beautiful illustration. She’s a poet with words and a poet with a camera.
• Two by Justinian at Discount Verbiage (although he calls his blog something else) – “Taliessin in the School of the Poets” and “On Continuing to Grieve” (this one is beautiful). I came across his blog several weeks ago because of a comment he made at another blog, namely the one by
• Phoenix-Karenee. This week she posted “Adrenaline,” which I loved.
• Two by Kathleen Overby: “Bottle Cries” and “Shattered Glass.”
• “How Arguments Go,” by my friend Maureen Doallas.
• Pencil Drawn and Paper Grown: Poems by Heather Truett. This isn’t a blog post; it’s a book of poems by one of our TweetSpeak Poetry jammers. I include it here because I found it linked from Heather’s blog.
• Sarah Salter’s blog post “For Girls Only: Naked.” In this post, Sarah combines poetry, prose – and pain. And it’s not for girls only.
Then I found two short stories, or actually, one short story and one five-part short-short story.
• “The Herd” by Bart Schaneman. Bart is a young writer originally from Nebraska. At his blog, Rain Follows the Plow, he writes short stories about his home state.
• “Mama Kept Staring,” by my friend Jim Schmotzer, posted at this blog, The Faithful Skeptic. For five days, Jim posted successive parts of his short story (so up need to “read up” from the first post on Feb 28).
And then the prose. There is so much good prose being written that this short list won’t do it justice. Some of it is serious; some is funny; all of it is good.
• “An Invitation to Hell,” by Billy Coffey, one of the best storytellers writing on the web. He has a novel called Snow Day being published later this year. This blog post is about writing, which lately he’s been writing about on Fridays. Writing about writing, that is.
• “Being Unintentionally Hilarious,” a blog post by Kathy Richards at Hey Look, A Chicken! Kathy is known as Katdish on Twitter, and if don’t follow her, you better. She rules. She also rocks.
• Two by author Athol Dickson. I’m a fan of Dickson’s. I love his novels, and in fact just finished River Rising this past week. He wrote a guest article for Novel Journey entitled "Forgotten Beauty," and it is good. On his blog, he posted “The American church is dying, and to save it we must join it.” And it is good, too.
• “They Are Listening,” a blog post by Erin at Together for Good. Erin is also one of our TweetSpeak Poetry jammers. All I can say is, she has an oldest son who sounds a lot like my oldest son, 24 years ago.
• “I Am Canadian,” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy. OK, so the Canadian hockey team won the Olympic gold medal. I mean, it’s just a medal, right? It’s just a game. We’ll get over it. Maybe. In the meantime you can read one Canadian’s soul-stirring tribute to her country, and (if you're an American) you won't feel so bad about who lost.
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