Lend an Ear 2018 on July 7, 2018

Lend an Ear 2015 - Audience listens to MaryJane Nordgren read,The 9th Annual Lend an Ear, Come and Hear reading event is July 7, 2018, at Plum Hill Winery in Gaston, Oregon.

It begins at 10:30AM and goes to approximately 1PM, and is produced by Writers in the Grove.

July 7, 2018
Saturday 10:30am-1pm
Plum Hill Vineyards
6505 SW Old Highway 47
Gaston OR 97119

The event is free and open to the public.

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Prompt-a-Month: Windows

Writers in the Grove Prompt-a-Month badge.The May prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:

What do you see out the window you look out of most often?

Writers in the Grove members may hand in their submissions during the workshops or use our members only submission form. Check out the guidelines and instructions for submissions in the announcement.

PROMPT FOR THE WEEK: WRITE A POEM

Try writing a poem if you’ve never written one. It can be daunting to try to write a poem if it’s something you’ve never tried.

The following lines are from the poem “Poetry”, by Pablo Neruda (included in the book “Saved By A Poem”, by Kim Rosen).

…and I wrote the first faint line,

faint, without substance, pure

nonsense,

pure wisdom

of someone who knows nothing, ….

 

Someone in the group suggested, “You start by starting.”

Just put something on paper and see if a poem can grow from it.

PROMPT: ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT…”

The prompt for this week’s meeting comes from a passage in the book “Saved By A Poem”, by Kim Rosen.

She describes talks she had with her 98-year-old grandmother, who was dying:

Sometimes we’d sing together:

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream.

Until I sang this song with my 98-year-old grandmother, her body pumping as if paddling toward  the veil between the worlds, I’d never heard its wisdom. “It’s true, isn’t it, Nana?” I would ask her. “Life is the dream. Where you’re going , maybe that’s the reality.” She didn’t answer, but I felt her press her cheek into my hand as we began the song again.

 

Write from any inspiration you take from the passage above.