She Hates Me Not, the first book in my bestselling Richer in Love series, is only 99 cents today through Sunday. It’s available for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple readers.
Use the links below to grab your copy while it’s on sale. Feel free to share this information with anyone who enjoys a sweet contemporary romance! (Sales links are also available at www.fegreene.com.) Buy now, enjoy later!
Happy Spring Break, and thanks for reading!
While I forge ahead on three writing projects – a fantasy series, a romance novel, and my next poetry collection – I am thrilled to be included on the 2021 Chatelaine Short List for Romantic Fiction! It’s a true honor to see In the Sweet Midwinter listed among books from so many other talented authors. If you’re looking for a good romance read, this is a great place to start!
My second Wow of the week? I’m a featured author at Randomly.Shop, a site that helps readers browse Amazon’s bestseller lists (which can be overwhelming). My interview went live on Wednesday. Use the link below to read it and see what else the site has to offer.
ICYMI last month: Have you purchased The Never List in ebook from Amazon since it was published in 2015? If so, Amazon KDP is providing a FREE UPDATE to all readers who own the book on Kindle. It fixes some buggy formatting and aligns the book with its sequels. (No word yet if Nook, Kobo, etc. will provide an update also.)
And finally… I survived a wind chill/real feel of ZERO degrees during my recent trip to New York City! I had hats on under my hats. The Music Man was amazing, and I didn’t let the cold weather stop me from taking a tour in an open-top bus (so cold!) or visiting the 9/11 Memorial and Museum (a truly moving experience). I hadn’t been to NYC in over 20 years, so it was a treat to reunite with the Big Apple.
I hope your week is full of Wows, too! Thanks for reading!
For me, a BIG moment of joy last November was when I learned In Days Divine won second place in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards (poetry category). Because I focus primarily on fiction writing, I was surprised and delighted to receive this honor!
Although I originally intended to publish In Days Divine as an ebook only, I’ve decided to offer in it paperback as well. It is available to order for only $6.99 through Amazon.
Here’s another bit of good news. Have you purchased The Never List in ebook from Amazon since it was published in 2015? If so, Amazon KDP is providing a FREE UPDATE to all readers who own the book on Kindle.
This update fixes a number of formating glitches from when digital publishing was still relatively new. It also aligns the book with its sequels (which I hadn’t originally planned to write). No matter when you purchased The Never List from Amazon, you can update your copy today! (The only exception might be folks who bought it in the last month or so because they own the newest version.)
I’m still communicating with other digital publishers to see if updates can be made available there. This includes Nook, Kobo, and other platforms. I’ll let you know if and when it happens!
There is a lot on my author horizon for 2022 including a new fantasy series that I’m writing now. I’m also planning to publish another book of poetry by next December. Add to that an upcoming trip to New York to see Hugh Jackman in The Music Man, and I’m feeling good vibes about 2022! I hope you have good things to look forward to as well!
Happy New Year, and thanks for reading!
As promised in my previous blog post, here is the fifth set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 21 PAD Prompt: “Take the phrase “(blank) Me,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.
REMIND ME… …what it was like to rise early— house martins twittering busily outside my open window while dawn crawled up the eastern sky, cool air faintly infused with old loam and dew-damp grass …of those unabridged mornings— unrushed and puttering about the house until nine-thirty (or maybe ten) when a half-hour’s drive down the A452 found me traversing castle gates, imagination igniting …how it felt to cross the inner court and climb the northwest tower— Warwickshire broadening before me, its montage of poppies, cottages, drowsy cattle and country lanes snaking between fields ripe for walking Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with alliteration and assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 22 PAD Prompt: “Write a nature poem. Write about the natural world if you like, but don’t be afraid to delve into human nature or the nature of love.”
A CONVERSATION WITH C. S. LEWIS CHIEFLY ON THE MALVERN HILLS From your prep-school days, you strolled these slopes, a fact I learned only after I discovered them, grew to love them. No, not love. Venerate. Revere. In fact, I observed that lone gas lamp flocked with ferns – a paradox of location, if not purpose – without knowing you noticed it, too, immortalizing the mismatch of metal and grass in your stories of wardrobes, fauns, and winters. Did you worship here also? Find sanctuary among the bogs and hollows? Wander with aimless intent across pebbled trails tipping like roller-coaster rails into oblivion? Did you? I do. Alone, mostly. Alone, I can listen until the stories emerge, adventures whispering themselves into existence amid clefts and divots sequestered beneath the beacons stippled with bedstraw and foxgloves strung like bells from sturdy stalks. Were you captured? Haunted? Inspired? I was – even before I learned you walked here, too. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with alliteration, assonance, and consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 23 PAD Prompt: “Write an appointment poem. My first thoughts with appointments conjure up visions of doctors, dentists, and parent-teacher conferences. But there are also business meetings and romantic dates.”
FATE’S DIARY When we make an appointment, We make a pact with Fate; We trust saints will preserve us Till that specific date. Although we vow to honor Each earnest guarantee, Fate makes a pact with no one— Who knows where we shall be? Poetic Form of Choice: The style of Emily Dickinson © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 24 PAD Prompt: “Write a question poem. You can make the title of your poem a question and use the poem to answer it. Or make the title the answer and the poem the question. Or end your poem on a question.”
A VAIN INQUIRY How did the moon reply when the monuments of humankind asked her to shine less brightly? Poetic Form of Choice: Cinquain (five lines with syllable count of 2/4/6/8/2) © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 25 PAD Prompt: For today’s prompt, write a thought poem that captures a thought or random ramblings running ’round your cranium. It doesn’t have to be a rambling poem, but that’s one thing. Another possibility is having two people share their thoughts with each other and/or NOT share them.
SEASIDE IDYLL Prone to overthinking, I now must think some more. Truthfully, I’d rather ramble along the shore— quench my cogitations churning endlessly, surrender introspections as ashes to the sea; allow the halcyon chorus of ever-cresting swells to dispel my musings like sedimented shells. Poetic Form of Choice: Ballad quatrains with ABCB rhyme scheme, alliteration, and assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Follow this link to the Writer’s Digest website and see the details for the 2021 PAD Challenge.
As promised in my previous blog post, here is the fourth set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 16 PAD Prompt: “Write a city poem. You can make the title of your poem the name of a city and write your poem. Or you can mention a city in your poem. And, of course, you can just set your poem in a city without naming which one it is.”
GALVESTON In Galveston, where gulf greets land, waves crest and ebb against the sand while tanned beachcombers nurse their beers and tourists scrounge for souvenirs in offbeat shops along the Strand. A greedy seagull’s shrill demand competes with music from a band as locals fish off seawall piers in Galveston. But there is more to understand from neighborhoods both plain and grand built and rebuilt across the years. Through hurricanes, life perseveres sustained by human heart and hand in Galveston. Poetic Form of Choice: English rondeau, a thirteen-line poem divided into three stanzas of 5, 4, and 6 lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words of the first line used as a refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas (aabba aabR aabbaR) © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 17 PAD Prompt: “Write a waiting poem. It can involve any interpretation of waiting. Waiting in line at the store or for a package in the mail or whatever else someone (or something) might wait for.”
ANTICIPATION The hardest part of doing is when nothing can be done, but the task is not yet finished, and the race is far from run. We hover at the starting mark. We languish in the queue. Is life a series of delays we’re meant to suffer through? We cross days off our calendars. We pace the waiting room. But isn’t life its own sojourn between cradle and tomb? If I am waiting, let me wait like waiting is the prize— one eye upon the timepiece, one eye upon the skies. For the sweetest part of waiting is anticipation, and the task is never finished until the race is run. Poetic Form of Choice: Ballad quatrains with ABCB rhyme scheme © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 18 PAD Prompt: Write an ekphrastic poem which is a poem based on another work of art (painting, photograph, sculpture, mixed media, etc.).
THE WATER LILLIES It isn’t just your construct of colors – abstract dabs, subtle brushstrokes defining a lane, a lake, a haystack or a bridge spanning a garden pond. It’s also how you noticed the glow, a luminosity in what’s common where light elevates the everyday, each masterpiece concealed in a moment. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with alliteration and assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 19 PAD Prompt: “Write a poem with an animal in the title. Titles like “Counting Sheep,” “Beside the White Chickens,” and “Horse” would all qualify.”
A CAT’S (DIS)ADVANTAGE I would not wish for nine lives, not even two or three— one is enough to comprehend a life’s complexity. One life to learn my lessons, to wake and work and tire; one life to celebrate and mourn is all that I require. Poetic Form of Choice: Ballad quatrains with ABCB rhyme scheme and alliteration © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 20 PAD Prompt: “For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a love poem and/or write an anti-love poem.”
ASPECTS OF LOVE (in three cinquains) I loved those long summers time spreading like the sea always someone to help or hug – agape. ~~~~~ You leave your door open even when you are out offering respite in your home – xenia. ~~~~~ We talk about nothing the rest would understand but to us, it is clear as day – philia. Poetic Form of Choice: Cinquain (five lines with syllable count of 2/4/6/8/2) © 2021 F. E. Greene
As promised in my previous blog post, here is the third set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 11 PAD Prompt: Write a poem that incorporates a prime number. You could include a prime number in the title of your poem or use one in the poem itself. Or write a poem that has a prime number of lines per stanza or for the entire poem. A list of prime numbers up to 100: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97).
UNDECIDED I can’t say if I have a favorite location, destination, or particular holiday, a moment that outshines any others – the prettiest vista, the grandest day out, a favorite route or footpath to ramble down. To scrutinize, to label, to rank would downplay the brilliance of each visit, all differently nuanced – the time of day, the conversation, the cascade of light on the hills, what flowered in the garden, the big news, the lost tooth – with subtle changes that make every moment its own masterpiece. Poetic Form of Choice: Lines with a syllable count in ascending prime numbers up to 29 (forced formatting may cause the longer lines to overflow) © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 12 PAD Prompt: Write a poem using at least three of the following six words: convict, great, play, race, season, and voice. Extra credit for using all six words.
LUNCHTIME IDLING In the shade of a great cathedral, I sit while children play on its steps in temperatures strangely warm for the season. Ice cream tracks trickle down their chins. Overhead, pigeons race in a gyrating cluster, orbit compressing until they settle around me in conspiratorial fashion. With bobbing heads, they imply – what’s mine is theirs. Do share. Their coos fuse to one voice to convict me of my greed as I refuse to relinquish my sandwich. The children frolic closer. The flock reshuffles, flutters, erupts into flight. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse in quatrains with assonance and consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 13 PAD Prompt: For this Two-for-Tuesday, write a lucky poem and/or write an unlucky poem.
LUCK Luck must arrive unbidden Or won’t arrive at all; Like a recalcitrant feline, It scarpers when we call. Luck slinks and skirts, observing With concentrated eyes— Only when we have ceased to look Will it materialize. Poetic Form of Choice: The style of Emily Dickinson © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 14 PAD Prompt: Write a poem inspired by your immediate surroundings. This can include pencils, characters in books you can see, or things out the window.
DAILY REFRAIN I gaze outside my window on this revalescent day. One year ago, I sat here; since then, not much has changed. But still the world feels altered, foundations cracked and strained, the old routines disrupted, old habits un-sustained. Although my view is looping through the hazy windowpane, collections and deliveries recurring in refrain, I know I’ll leave this room soon to abandon the mundane and the view outside my window on this revalescent day. Poetic Form of Choice: Quatrains with repeating end rhyme © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 15 PAD Prompt: Take the phrase “(blank) Story,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include “Toy Story” and/or “Same Old Story.”
A RAMBLING STORY Golden stalks glimmer beneath alabaster clouds— twilight burnishes the field, hedgerows enshrouded. Charlie rambles down the path; contentedly, I follow. Poetic Form of Choice: Sedoka (six lines with syllable count of 5/7/7/5/7/7) © 2021 F. E. Greene
As promised in my last blog post, here is the second set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 6 PAD Prompt: Today is the first Tuesday of the month which means it’s time for our first Two-for-Tuesday prompt. You can pick one of the prompts, combine prompts, or write one poem for each prompt. For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt: 1. Write a change poem and/or… 2. Write a don’t-change poem.
CHANGE “Change is sometimes the same as rest,” A bookseller told me, And who am I to quibble with Such keen philosophy? Yet, change churns like the wild riptides; Rest idles like the shoals. Can such converse occurrences Be interchangeable? For change does rent, and rest does mend. One settles; one upsets— If change must come, then I desire A change disguised as rest. Poetic Form of Choice: The Style of Emily Dickinson © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 7 PAD Prompt: Write a villain poem. You could write a persona poem from the perspective of a popular villain (like Count Dracula, Thanos, or Dolores Umbridge). Or write a poem with a person doing a villainous thing (like eating the last piece of pie or littering).
OFF-PEAK FAUX PAS Plenty of seats upon the train; You claim the bay for four Though you are traveling alone, And I am with three more. Poetic Form of Choice: Ballad quatrain © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 8 PAD Prompt: Write a metaphor poem. A metaphor is when something is something else (I am a tree). Take a moment to consider possible metaphors and then poem them out.
LONDON An old friend too rarely seen yet known so well; you tell stories of conquest, disaster, victory; I sit at your feet savoring those tales in your ancient voice. Poetic Form of Choice: Modified haiku with syllable count of 3-5-5 © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 9 PAD Prompt: Write a persona poem for an inanimate object. A persona poem is written in the voice of someone (or in this case something) else – a pair of scissors, a picture frame, smart phone, or another inanimate object.
LOST LUGGAGE I don’t mind the wait. I’m used to it. Most days I sit in your closet wedged between shoeboxes and workout equipment. (Bit dusty in there, I’ll admit.) So, this change of venue is, frankly, refreshing although I’m sure you’re anxious for us to reunite. After all, you have plans tonight, and that little black dress won’t wear itself. Until then, I’ll be on this shelf. I feel certain the airline will sort things out, and I’ll join you at the hotel before your dinner reservation. (It will be nice to see another location.) Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with internal rhyme, assonance, and consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 10 PAD Prompt: Take the phrase “Get (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Get Smart,” “Get Incredibly Overwhelmed by the Beauty of Spring,” and/or “Get This Poem Written.”
GET AWAY FROM IT ALL Isn’t that the bottom line? Leave it all behind. Unwind. Pack only what you need – no assignments or deadlines no one more thing before I go… Just winding shoreline drives along the coast – away from that host of inconveniences saturating your bandwidth – no let me check my messages… Ocean on the left, sunset overhead reminding you of the infinite – the unsaid. What’s familiar ceases to interfere with what lies before you and what is right here. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with internal rhyme, assonance, and consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
As promised in my last blog post, here is the first set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 1 PAD Prompt: Write an introduction poem. Introduce yourself, introduce a friend, or introduce a stranger. If you don’t wish to introduce yourself, consider writing a persona poem (a poem in which you write from someone else’s point of view). You could also introduce a problem, solution, or situation.
ODE TO A HOTEL ROOM I greet you like a friend I’ve never met but know so well – familiar already with your conveniences and dimensions, amenities and deficits as you know mine, vaguely, from the endless parade of others – unpacking and repacking, coming and going, leaving unique variations of disarray in their wake. I won’t be so negligent. I swear it. I’ll leave you as neatly as I found you – toiletries gathered, detritus collected, souvenirs corralled into carry-ons, and plastic bottles clustered near the trash can with the hopeful guarantee of reuniting someday, you and me, in that first blush of discovery – the heady freshness of expectation – alone in this hotel room, together. Poetic Form of Choice: Free Verse with Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 2 PAD Prompt: For today’s prompt, I want you to answer the question, “What does the future hold?” Then, make your answer the title of your poem and write your poem.
UNKNOWN I know not what the future holds. I only know today; And yet my mind so often dwells On where I’ll make my way. I dream of journeys far afield, Past hills and lakes and moors. What would I give? What might I risk To rove those distant shores? To wander freely has a cost I should too gladly pay; But I know not when that shall be— I only know today. Poetic Form of Choice: The Style of Emily Dickinson © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 3 PAD Prompt: Write a communication poem about different ways people can communicate: text message, letter, signs, and even speaking dialogue. Of course, there are other forms of communication as well because people love communicating.
WISH YOU WERE HERE At the carvery on Coleshill’s High Street I sit (pen in hand) tucked into a booth sculpting sentences onto cardstock rectangles embellished with teacups or Westies or the Queen (not quite smiling) while my hasty words fail to encapsulate the affirmation, gratitude, joy I feel at returning to my home away from home. I’ll concede – postcards are passé, obsolete as superfluous as sunscreen in England as slow as the post office queue. I might email you this evening (send a text in mere seconds) but neither of those can be affixed to the fridge and remain on display as clear evidence that I do (in fact) wish you were here. Poetic Form of Choice: Free Verse with Alliteration and Assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 4 PAD Prompt: For today’s prompt, write an active poem. This can be a poem comprised of active (vs passive) verbs. It can also be about exercising, playing a sport, or keeping your mind active.
THE ROSE TREE RESTAURANT, BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER We lounge at the round wooden table, its pine-green umbrella shielding us from what sunshine slides through the clouds. Across the sidewalk and grassy bank, children wade and splash in the Windrush; mothers huddled by their prams gossip softly. We chatter, too – three friends, two of us sisters – trading tales after a lengthy separation with the artless ease born of affection and trust. This lazy Saturday yields a feast of activity, none of it rushed or taxing, and I marvel at how doing next to nothing can mean so much. Poetic Form of Choice: Free Verse with Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 5 PAD Prompt: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “The First (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “The First Kiss,” “The First Day of the Month,” and/or “The First Time I Rode a Bike”
THE FIRST RETURNING She takes her first London taxi down Marylebone Road and drinks her first cup of tea on the Virgin train. She disembarks at the Birmingham Airport to hire her first car of the summer. She concentrates during her first half hour of driving on the left side of the road. She tags along with her host for her first visit to the ASDA Walmart in Minworth. She relishes her first excursion to Kenilworth and her first ramble along the Honiley footpath. She attends her first church service, exchanges first hugs with others, and joins them for her first Sunday lunch. mundane things become magical when returning after an absence Poetic Form of Choice: Haibun - a combination of prose poetry and haiku. The prose portion describes a natural scene in an objective, detailed manner. The haiku portion (with the traditional syllable count of 5/7/5) reflects on what has been described. © 2021 F. E. Greene
As promised in my previous blog post, here is the final set of poems I’ve written for the 14th annual Poem-A-Day Challenge as organized by Writer’s Digest. Even though every day has its own unique prompt, I am focusing on “travel” as an overarching theme because I’ve missed traveling so much this past year.
Day 26 PAD Prompt: “Take the phrase “(blank) World,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.”
THIS TRANSITORY WORLD Cling to those people who don’t cling to you— but lightly as if the strain might break them. You don’t need them, nor they you. Need isn’t the issue; it can’t be in this transitory world. Love lives in the releasing— all of us conceived to embrace love and justice, contentment and peace built for those better acts from the fabric that forms us, the Hands that weave us, sketch us, flood us with colors like kites sailing blithely sharing the sky unstrung. We are made to cling— but lightly. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with alliteration and assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 27 PAD Prompt: “Today is our final Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a believe poem and/or write a don’t believe poem.”
DISBELIEVING How can you believe? they ask. I do not believe, I tell them. I listen until truth speaks. Then, I do not believe— I know. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 28 PAD Prompt: “Write a remix poem. Look over what you’ve written this month and pick something (or many somethings) to poem out in a new way. Maybe your free verse becomes a sonnet or your sestina transforms into haiku. Or take a line or phrase from each of your poems this month and work it into a cohesive new creation.”
IN THE GARDEN (a naani) Your construct of colors outshines any others— a great cathedral beneath alabaster skies Poetic Form of Choice: A naani has exactly four lines with a total syllable count of 20 to 25. This poetic form originates in India. © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 29 PAD Prompt: “Write an evening poem. The evening can be a quiet and contemplative time, a stressed or fearful time, or, well, party time. Evenings can be lonely or romantic, cool or humid, inspirational or numbing.”
WHY I TALK TO TREES WHILE I’M WALKING Every evening, I pass a lone willow billowing amid a row of stiff-spined pines. When I greet the pines, they only stare past me at the bayou where a snowy egret stalks minnows. As I approach the willow, she flounces and frills, leaves capering in the breeze. She always says hello first. Politely, I reply. After all, she’s lived here longer than me, enduring floods, droughts, hurricanes and infestations I wasn’t around to see. Serenely attentive, she susurrates wisdom, her canopied limbs fringed in spring green. Those pine trees, she sighs. They take themselves too seriously. I glance back. Perhaps they do. And you, she continues. I see you ambling each twilight back and forth on this footworn path, weighted down, gaze to ground. Let the eventide soothe you. This is the hour of absolution. I glance ahead, then above. I know the willow is right which is why I talk to trees when I’m walking. Poetic Form of Choice: Free verse with alliteration and assonance © 2021 F. E. Greene
Day 30 PAD Prompt: “Write a goodbye poem. Whether leaving for a holiday or going to get groceries, many people find themselves in positions of saying goodbye to each other. This feels like an appropriate way to close out this year’s challenge…until we meet again.”
GOODBYE To say goodbye requires of us both faith and fortitude. The first curtails our sorrow when we leave those whom we love. The second wills us to depart, or we might never move. How can a word so commonplace contain such magnitude? And here’s a last-day BONUS poem! A little something extra for fans of Shakespeare and/or puns… [Exit, pursued by a bear.] ‘The Winter’s Tale’ would have us think goodbyes are never kind. Antigonus exits the stage pursued by the ursine. Perhaps some days, we might believe to leave is to decline, but most goodbyes are bearable— something to bear in mind. Poetic Form of Choice: Octaves (eight-line stanza) with abcdedfb rhyme pattern and alternating syllable count of 8/6/8/6/8/6/8/6. © 2021 F. E. Greene
Follow this link to the Writer’s Digest website and see the details for the 2021 PAD Challenge.
April is National Poetry Month, and I’m excited to announce the publication of my latest book – Rhyming Brighter – just in time for the celebration!
This portable paperback is available at Amazon for only $7.99. It’s filled with 31 days of poetry prompts along with lined pages for writing. Every prompt comes with a detailed explanation and sample poem as well as a glossary of frequently used terms. Readers can work through the exercises at their own pace and in whatever order they choose.
Rhyming Brighter is an excellent gift for the poet in your life! It’s also a wonderful tool for homeschool teachers and students who want to explore poetry in a convenient and interactive way. The next book in the series – Rhyming Even Brighter – hits online bookshelves in a few weeks!
Let’s celebrate National Poetry Month together! Why not join me in the Writer’s Digest PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge? It’s no cost, no fuss, and no risk! You don’t have to share your poems with anyone unless you choose to. I’ll be posting my daily poems on my Facebook page and publishing them once every five days on this blog.
My recently published poetry collection, In Days Divine, took root when I lived in England and entered a series of online poetry challenges. I’d never done anything like that before and was surprised to find that I loved writing poems with directions and a deadline. I won’t say they were all diamonds, but the process definitely made me a better poet.
Touch here to find out more about the 2021 PAD challenge from Writer’s Digest. I hope you’ll consider participating and maybe posting your poems on the WD site? Or you can simply drop in to read what others are writing. No pressure – just poetry!
Above all, I wish you a happy National Poetry Month, and thanks for reading!
F. E. Greene 