This is Power Lines, a newsletter illuminating our roller coaster lives with the joys of reading and writing. Helping you and your kids fall in love with writing lights me up!
I am a published poet who has won and been runner-up in poetry contests. For years I took a break, but then I found another way of being a poet: on Substack. Here I post poems as and when. Subscribe for free / Freedom is poetry.
Writer Pilgrim is a writer, journalist, poet & teacher who runs podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds, TINAWW writers workshops in person/online, offers personalised poems, NaPoWriMo host, monthly song title poetry, weekly prompts & social hangout SPAWN.
Juicy explorations of the reading-thinking-stitching life from the author of THE NERVIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, FOX AND CROW ARE NOT FRIENDS, and other books.
Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).