I am the daily host over at VerseLove for today’s prompt, which is called Writing The Night Sky, and invites you to use constellations of stars as an inspiration for a poem of space and wonder. Come join us. Here is mine: Vela SQ2 30°N – 90°S Your sisters of Heavenly Waters await your return for an eternity but solar winds fill your form, and you remain mystery Your children are seven, a brood of starlings telling stories of the Argo, the cargo of which has long since been lost into myth Your sphere of influence envelopes the empty silence; the Pencil, the Gum, the Southern Ring sings inside ..read more

Today’s prompt for VerseLove is about Earth Day. Mine tried to capture the sound and music of the wild. Peace (listening), Kevin ..read more

Here are two Silent Sundays — both with a book theme. The first is from a mystery/detective story display inside a book store, and the other is a window display from another book store. My wife and I were away for the week so I posted the first from my phone, and am now catching up. Peace (in pages), Kevin ..read more

I had the privilege of interviewing Rob Rokicki for the National Writing Project’s Write Time Radio show. Rob is a musician and composer, who wrote the music and lyrics for a Broadway version of The Lightning Thief. We chatted about his work and how he composes, and the idea of story narrative in connection to music. Peace (talking it out), Kevin ..read more

Click on the wrench at the Rube Goldberg Machine comic at xkcd and build the machine inside the comic. Brilliant! Peace (and gears), Kevi ..read more

This is a visual look at the Blackout Poems my students were creating yesterday before we went to take in the Solar Eclipse. Peace (and poems), Kevin ..read more

Peace (plant it), Kevin ..read more

(NOTE: This post is a tutorial as part of Write Out, April 2024) Here is one way to create a blackout/erasure poem, particularly when the Solar Eclipse comes through and the moon “erases” or “blackens out” part of the Sun. Get it? For mine (above), I used some text generated by ChatGPT in which it explains what a Solar Eclipse is. You may want to find some other text or perhaps the Wendell Berry poem – To Know The Dark — as your main text. This is what ChatGPT gave me for my activity: A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, obscuring the sun ..read more

via GIPHY This morning’s DS106 Daily Create prompt (one I guess I originally submitted way back when?) was to find the background code of a website and use it for art. I perused behind the scenes of the John Coltrane website for mine. I grabbed a screenshot, and then used art filters, and ended with some animation on top. Peace (and sound), Kevin ..read more

Just in time for April and Poetry Month, Grant Snider’s new Poetry Comics book is a beautiful addition to the collection. Grant gathers together four seasons worth of poems in the form of comics, in his own distinct style (literally – the book is divided into four seasons), and it’s lovely for the ways that he weaves in his illustrations, perspective viewpoints and a child-like view of the world. (This book is appropriate for any aged kid or adult). Many of the comics are free-verse but he also uses rhyming patterns here and there, and haiku and other small form poetry styles. The book could ..read more