Author: Colleen M. Chesebro
Colleen M. Chesebro is a Michigan Poet who loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger’s hexastich, Abhanga, and diatelle poetry.
Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems,” and in various other online publications. She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly 99-word flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com, an online writing community. Recently, she created the Double Ennead, a 99-syllable poetry form for Carrot Ranch.
Colleen has published a collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories called, “Fairies, Myths & Magic: A Summer Celebration,” dedicated to the Summer Solstice. She contributed a short story called “The Changeling,” in the “Ghostly Rites Anthology 2020” published by Plaisted Publishing House.
Colleen Chesebro’s poetry blog is called Word Craft – Prose & Poetry at https://wordcraftpoetry.com/
Her author blog is found at https://colleenchesebro.com where you will find her poetry and short stories.
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So sorry for your loss Colleen. Something weird in the air. So many changes. Hang in.
Pat
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That’s Pat. I worry about my friend. She’s not in a good place.
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I can imagine…
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I’m so sorry about your friend’s husband. Such sad news.
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There has been so much death, lately… 😦
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Yes. . .😢
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I’m sorry Colleen. Its such a difficult time for so many people. Yes, keep the umbrella close. (K)
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So sorry to hear of your loss. ❤️
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It’s our dear friend, Debby Gies’ husband. She’s a mainstay in our writing community. ❤
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Oh 😥 gosh. I’m not sure I know her yet.
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Oh, I thought you did. She shares poetry in the challenge too. 😢
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I’ll have to watch for her.
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