Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poet. Show all posts

Friday 8 May 2020

Poet of the Month - Gwendolyn Brooks - Sadie and Maud - Inspirational Shorts Podcast

Gwendolyn Brooks - Sadie and Maud, Inspirational Shorts


This week on the podcast I am sharing another poem by poet Gwendolyn Brooks.  In Episode 217 of my podcast you will here the poem Sadie and Maud.  


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Joyful

Art Journal Page - Mixed Media Artist - Amanda Trought
Art Journal Page - Amanda Trought


The word for the day is Joyful.  

Think about how the word can be incorporated into the things that you do and create an art journal page linking the word.

Let's look at the definition of the word joyful - 

  • joyful feeling or causing great pleasure and happiness
  •  with joy great pleasure and happiness,
  •  a cause of great pleasure and happiness success or satisfaction.


Now how is it you feel about your creativity? 

Can you find those pockets of feeling joyful or joy and think about how you can find those little moments in your creativity because sometimes you just don't feel like creating.  

Sometimes you know you want to do something else but if you think about the creativity as a blanket so whether you going to your studio sear your table or wherever your space is and create something or write something or take a photograph it's all part creativity so it's all feeding you, feeding that 'well' that you can dip in-and-out of and grow.


Poet - Gwendolyn Brooks

“Poetry is life distilled.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks


Gwendolyn Brooks - Sadie and Maud

This week is the 2nd week of looking at the work of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, so today the poem that we are going to read is called Sadie and Maud. 


Sadie and Maud 

Maud went to college 
Sadie stayed at home 
Sadie scraped life 
with a fine-tooth-comb 

she didn't leave a tangle 
in her comb found every strand 
Sadie was one of the Livingest 
chit in all the land

Sadie bore two babies 
under her maiden name 
Maud and ma and papa 
nearly died of shame 

When Sadie said her last so long 
her girls struck out from home 
Sadie had left her heritage 
in her fine-tooth-comb 

Maud who went to college 
is a thin Brown mouse 
she is living all alone 
in this old house 

Gwendolyn Brooks - Sadie and Maud

You can find some of her book on Amazon


You can check out more about Gwendolyn Brooks, her life and other poetry on the Poetry Foundation Website - HERE

Join me each week on the podcast - HERE



Thank you for joining me, stay blessed and be a blessing!

Mixed Media Artist - Amanda Trought
Thanks for joining me - Amanda!!



Saturday 2 May 2020

Inspirational Shorts - Poet - Gwendolyn Brooks, Product Review - Neocolors Pastels

Welcome to the post today.  You are in for a double TREAT!  Inspirational shorts will be changing slightly, I will be sharing on the podcast a poet.  This month the poet I have chosen is Gwendolyn Brooks.  Each and every month I will either feature one poet or more and on the blog give you a bit of information about them.  On the YouTube channel Inspirational Shorts will be a short product/art supply or book review.  I hope that you are staying blessed and inspired.  Let me know who your favorite poet is.


Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors. A lifelong resident of Chicago, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position she held until her death 32 years later. She was also named the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for the 1985–86 term. In 1976, she became the first African-American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Wikapedia page)  More Information HERE

The poem that I will read today is called a Song in the Front Yard and you can find the words HERE while you are there check out the Poetry Foundation, they have information about a wide range of poets.

Inspirational Shorts - Review
Weekly reviews on art supplies, tools and books to inspire and encourage.

Neocolor Water soluble Wax Pastels

In this video I share a review of the water soluble wax pastels known as Neocolor.  They are lovely to use and can work well on a variety of surfaces.


You can check out the variety of sizes that they come in HERE




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