In Spring 2006 I enrolled in a Writers Online Workshops course in Advanced Poetry ( www.writersonlineworkshops.com ). Starting Friday, October 6, 2006, the Herald ( www.sharonherald.com ) ran my six-part, weekly series about writing and revising poetry during that class. In the series I reveal what inspired my verses, as well as how class feedback helped me revise them.

Click on the following links below to read printer-friendly versions of each installment in the poetry series:

• Week 1 - A georgic poem:  What do we consider when naming our children?
• Week 2 - Sonnet still a popular art form 
• Week 3 - Hand-written notes led to a reunion and a penning of a "double etheree"
• Week 4 - He isn't a man of my fiction; "Herb" is a poem based on family fact
• Week 5 - In poetry and the creative spirit, "Daddy" speaks to his grandson, Ed
• Week 6 - How does one spell 'acrostic'?

Click here to read the final versions of my poems from the Writers Online Workshop.