Poetry Friday: Liz Garton Scanlon

She's going to hate this.

 Liz Garton Scanlon is hosting Poetry Friday today---her first time---and I can't help doing what I'm about to do. I'm afraid every soul in the universe isn't reading her blog, Liz in Ink. Isn't collecting the exquisitely bundled gift of words she so casually leaves for her readers there---calling it a "post" but truly, they are unmarked poems.

For a taste, see her thoughts about the month she wrote daily haiku or her rumination "Is it Enough?" about motherhood or her frontline reports of authorial adventures during school visits.

And then there is her poetry. I hate describing a poet's work---it's like those goofy wine descriptions where everything is plummy or with hints of peppercorn or notes of sweet wheatgrass. Let's just drink a Liz poem, shall we?



Perspective
by Liz Garton Scanlon
            
It is nearly impossible  -- impossible --
to recognize the difference
between dog and bear
in the transmuting dark
and the long croony whistle of a train
sounds so much like moo
as to be four-legged and lonesome

A sock looks like a hat
but doesn’t fit and isn’t
a pear looks like an apple
apple sounds like happy
and is

the rest is here, along with more loveliness than you can handle in one day.

Poke about her archives. Subscribe to her posts. If you wish, read my interview with her. Make a friend of Liz in Ink.

The gathering-in of Poetry Friday posts is here.

The Exercise of Writing: Liz takes off

SWOOSH!

There goes Liz... blogging about skiing and writing, and running and writing, and just what she and I could possibly mean by the "physicality of writing." My favorite SWOOSH? This one:

"My own big fat prize.

Not the Olympics.

Not a college scholarship.

Just the totally exhilarating sense of working hard at something and makin’ it happen."

Go on and take your writer self for a run down Liz's mountain. She's an excellent guide.

The full schedule for our week of co-blogging is here. I'll be back tomorrow...gotta go catch up with Liz now. Dang, that girl's a blur!

Co-bloggin' it: Liz and Sara Double Team You This Week

Liz Scanlon (Liz in Ink) and I are co-blogging all this week! I'm so pumped about it, I can hardly sit still, but that's a good thing, because we're going to be talking up....

The Exercise of Writing

Yup. We're just that crazy. Here's the short version of the schedule. But RUN on over to Liz's and read the full version right here.

Monday: Hit the starting blocks at Liz in Ink

Tuesday: Out of the gate at Read Write Believe

Wednesday: Half-time entertainment

Sara Strong-Arms It – here at Liz in Ink

Liz Lifts and Lunges – at Read Write Believe

Thursday: The Olympics – A round-up of sports posts and analogies (at both blogs)

Friday: The Fifth Quarter – Poetry Friday (at both blogs)

Ready, set....GO to Liz's place and get the full game plan right now!