SNEAK PEEK OF MY POEMS AS PAINTINGS!
Dear Conspirators, In this post...RESOLUTIONS and a SNEAK PEEK at my POEMS AS PAINTINGS!
RESOLUTIONS
How's the New Year treating you? Other than some haywire allergies, I'm feeling good about life and trying to tackle my resolutions. I had my students write resolutions as well, and before doing so, I presented them with the fact that 80% of people fail at their resolution. My question to them was this: "Just how resolute do you think most people are about their resolutions?" To me, that seems to be the key. We did a word study on resolute and then used a powerful verb to start the writing prompt:
In 2019 I resolve to....
...to be kinder to my brother.
...to keep getting A's.
...to snowboard eight times this year and land new tricks.
...to go outside and jump on the trampoline.
...learn to play at least one of my songs on the guitar well enough to where I can sing along.
...finish my third book and then some.
...maintain a healthy work/life/sports/faith balance. Or should I say faith/life/work/sports.
So the first three are students' and the last three are mine, it goes without saying (but gets said anyway). What about you? What do you resolve to do? I challenge you to write a rez like we did and share it with someone. Committing them to this blog reifies my resolutions. To achieve them, I need to reconnect with my creative motivations, which include my faith, optimism, and my goal of pointing readers upward toward grandeur beyond themselves.
SNEAK PEEK!
Color: Story Exhibition
Reify. I love this word. I'm looking forward to seeing poems become paintings at the Color: Story exhibit. Here's a sneak peek screenshot of Marlo Saucedo's treatment of several of my poems. The Eiffel Tower mixed in with a Houston skyline comprised of my poems? I'm blown away. Come to the event and hear several poets share the work that inspired the Color:Story paintings.
Love and rockets,
Adam
RESOLUTIONS
How's the New Year treating you? Other than some haywire allergies, I'm feeling good about life and trying to tackle my resolutions. I had my students write resolutions as well, and before doing so, I presented them with the fact that 80% of people fail at their resolution. My question to them was this: "Just how resolute do you think most people are about their resolutions?" To me, that seems to be the key. We did a word study on resolute and then used a powerful verb to start the writing prompt:
In 2019 I resolve to....
...to be kinder to my brother.
...to keep getting A's.
...to snowboard eight times this year and land new tricks.
...to go outside and jump on the trampoline.
...learn to play at least one of my songs on the guitar well enough to where I can sing along.
...finish my third book and then some.
...maintain a healthy work/life/sports/faith balance. Or should I say faith/life/work/sports.
So the first three are students' and the last three are mine, it goes without saying (but gets said anyway). What about you? What do you resolve to do? I challenge you to write a rez like we did and share it with someone. Committing them to this blog reifies my resolutions. To achieve them, I need to reconnect with my creative motivations, which include my faith, optimism, and my goal of pointing readers upward toward grandeur beyond themselves.
SNEAK PEEK!
Color: Story Exhibition
Reify. I love this word. I'm looking forward to seeing poems become paintings at the Color: Story exhibit. Here's a sneak peek screenshot of Marlo Saucedo's treatment of several of my poems. The Eiffel Tower mixed in with a Houston skyline comprised of my poems? I'm blown away. Come to the event and hear several poets share the work that inspired the Color:Story paintings.
Love and rockets,
Adam
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