Perpetual Prose

Excerpt from “Remembering Rosetta” – Part 2

Morgan St. James — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:53 +0000

Rosetta and friends circa 1926 Another Excerpt from “Remembering Rosetta,” a yet to be publish memoir. By Morgan St. James and Phylllice Bradner Our mother Rosetta Lachman, born Rose Schwartz, almost made it to ninety-seven—she missed it by three and a half months. When she was in her mid-eighties,...

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Larissa Ione – Interview

Perpetual Prose — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:00:55 +0000

Larissa, tell us about the genres you write in. I write dark paranormal romance, erotic sci-fi/paranormal romance (under the name Sydney Croft), and contemporary romance. The contemporaries and dark paranormals so far have had a medical element, which I just love. How much impact has your...

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Pain vs Poetry

Andrewj — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:00:39 +0000

Pain is personal. Pain is powerful. Pain is not original. Accepting the risk of hyperbole, I can say that all poets go through a pain period. All people, and thus all poets, suffer. You may be mistreated by a parent, rejected by a lover, betrayed by a friend or touched by death. These things...

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Excerpt from “Remembering Rosetta” – Part 1

Morgan St. James — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:40 +0000

Excerpt from “Remembering Rosetta,” a yet to be published memoir. By Morgan St. James and Phylllice Bradner Rosetta Lachman left this world just short of her ninety-seventh birthday. She was encouraged to write the first section of this “still in work” memoir when she was in her...

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Mari Adkins – Interview

Perpetual Prose — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:52 +0000

How old were you when you started writing? I wrote my first ‘book’ at six and my first poetry at nine. The book has survived and is now buried in a memory box; the poetry, thankfully, long ago parted this earth. All through childhood, the creative arts including drawing, painting, sketching, and of...

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Enjoy Poetry as Story

Andrewj — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:30:31 +0000

A story told in 100 or 200 words starts to read a lot like poetry. All of the excess thoughts have been eliminated. There is no room for wasted words when the count is so tight. To me, that is one of the advantages of good poetry over prose. Every word matters. It is a lot of fun. A poem doesn’t...

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Memoirs – Whether for Publication or for Yourself

Perpetual Prose — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:58:57 +0000

Have you ever had the urge to write your life story as a keepsake for yourself or your family? Whether you aspire to publication, or want to preserve memories for yourself or family members and friends, memoirs are priceless. Without them, the wonderful times and recollections of people along the...

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Art of Poetry

Andrewj — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:00:56 +0000

All any one knows for sure is that it must rhyme. That’s usually the first entry in a non-poet’s personal lexicon when they recognize something as being a poem. Of course, we know that a great deal of poetry does rhyme, but a lot of it doesn’t. You may be hard-pressed to find a poem...

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The Art of Drawing Word Pictures – Part 3

Morgan St. James — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:00:06 +0000

How do you portray an eighty-year-old woman who isn’t your garden variety grandmother? With flat narrative, or through vivid descriptions and attitudes. I chose to use an excerpt from one of my own books to illustrate this. We are introduced to Flossie Silver, a former vaudeville magician, in “A...

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Experience Poetry in a Musical Style

Andrewj — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:14 +0000

Poetry reacts on us through sound — pitch, volume, consonance, assonance, rhyme and cadence, as well as through the process of visual translation from print on page to a mind image. I have often told poets privately that they can increase the quality of their work in short order by doing...

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