Learn with Blount County poet Irene Latham how to mine your memories and nature experiences to craft a poem on the theme of “Water” for the 2025 FLFR Poetry Contest.
Irene will also have workshops at:
Oneonta Senior Center on Monday, March 10th at 10 am.
Oneonta Public Library on Thursday, April 17th at 10 am.
We look forward to your poems about:
- Blount County bodies of water
- water activities, like fishing, boating, etc.
- water conservation
- water wildlife, like ducks, turtles, etc.
- the water cycle, including rain, ice, fog
- any other thing that you find poem-worthy about water
The judges will be looking for powerful water language, especially verbs: flood, flow, gurgle, gush, seethe, shimmer. . .
A great starting place for poems might be a memory of time spent on or near water. What stays with you about the experience? What emotions surface?
Our human bodies are about 60% water, so when we write about water, we are also writing about ourselves!
Here's a short “water” poem from me:
When Papa Died
When Papa died
I was like the lake in winter
With only a single duck swimming
Just the duck and a brisk wind blowing away all my poems
- Irene Latham
