"How We Say It: Pens Moving Across the Page" A Free Online Veterans Poem-Making Project the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month. Copy and paste the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84142725900

Class Schedule USA - PST 2:30 Noon to 4:00 PM PST

These times for this class are in The USA PST time zone every other Thursday.

September 12 & 26, 2024, October 10 & 24, 2024, November 14 & 28. 2024

You'll find quotes like the below, poetry prompts, film clips, & Jim's storytelling.

Come write with him.

Robert Frost: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it....Suddenly,quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before....Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.


Maya Angelou: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel...You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please

remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. .If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path...Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

President John F. Kennedy: The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has, as Frost said, a lover's quarrel with the world. In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role. If Robert Frost was much honored in his lifetime, it was because a good many preferred to ignore his darker truths. Yet in retrospect, we see how the artist's fidelity has strengthened the fibre of our national life.

Fidelity - faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.