Yesterday I sat in Cowin Auditorium at Teachers College and listened to Naomi Shihab Nye.
Love flowed from her to us and back again. We are her tribe. She spoke, and we held on. The power of writing lifts us up and fills us with what we know to be true.
Nye offered four pieces of sound writerly advice:
1. Be a fan of writers, artists, musicians, the weird gardner down the street. This gives you fuel, it gives you energy to go on.
2. Believe in the tiny increments of time, they stack up and allow you to build.
3. Share your work
4. Have rituals, they promote confidence
In the spirit of this, hello Poetry Friday. No apologies necessary. The ritual begins.
Naming
allows identity.
Writing
allows memory.
It gives us a place
to be heard
and know we matter.
With that power
we think
and become more.
We find the form,
the shape
and name it.
We exist.
©Julieanne Harmatz
Thank you, Carol, at Carol’s Corner for hosting this week.
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