Hi, friends. I wanted to share a few Collaborature updates in one place. Editor Melissa Lemay featured Mad Dark Winter Sky, a short poem my daughter Phoebe and I wrote together a few years ago when she was nine. We made it using those little word magnets you can rearrange on the refrigerator to form sentences.
Melissa also invited me to serve as the guest judge for the November contest—something I was admittedly nervous about and felt under-qualified for. But, being the wonderful human she is, Melissa put me at ease and reminded me that the guest judge simply chooses the poem that resonates most. In the end, I went with the one that jumped out to me first and stayed with me the longest. Congratulations to Chiwenite Onyekwelu for the winning poem, The Carpenter at St. Ignatius. There’s also a brief “meet the judge” introduction if you’re interested.
Collaborature is a collaborative literary space built around honesty, creativity, and community, and it’s well worth checking out.
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