Tania Pryputniewicz teaches Transformative Blogging and is currently writing a book based on her courses. She is looking to connect with other women bloggers, instructors of blogging and like-minded creatives. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshops, Tania is co-founding blogger and instructor at Mother, Writer, Mentor where she teaches Poetry of Motherhood and Poetry of Fatherhood. She has blogged since 2007 at Feral Mom, Feral Writer. Her latest poetry projects involve photo poem montages and poetry sculpture.
January 2015: Wheel of Archetypal Selves, From Fool to Visionary (The Major Arcana from 0 to V) In this on-line writing course offered through Story Circle Network in January, we will use the Major Arcana as a focal point in order to make connections to the archetypes and to our past and current experiences. In […]
We had some eerie moments when the wire of the mic became somehow attenuated (overheated?) during the recording of a second poem (Nefertiti on the Astral) and in playback we heard a long drawn out garbled voice, as if we were channeling The Queen of Egypt direct. Photo Poem Montage She Dressed in a Hurry […]
January 2015 Beginning Blogging: Two out of five of your friends have started a blog. Why? Should you be blogging too? This gentle, supportive course is designed to walk you through the steps you’ll need to take in order to launch a blog. Join us to explore the blogosphere and write your way towards material […]
“No excuse to hide, or your daughter will,” is a line I cut (for its baldness) and then kept splicing back in to a Joan of Arc poem….As a poet I’m cursed with that childlike belief in the incantatory strength of words to push sunward the group mind we inhabit. More likely blessed. Comes a time when […]
Another image that lived in my home for several years quietly speaking to my subconscious was a painting titled The Rescue of Ophelia (by Christine DeCamp). A massive leaf borders the body of the floating Ophelia as she cradles in her arms an owl, Shakespeare’s last word trumped by DeCamp’s alternate reality. Cross-Pollination: Claudel, DeCamp, and […]
I’m surprised to find, in writing the poem, that girl, mother, and flower coexist in the imagination alongside an innocence I thought lost, beside a self I thought irreparably fractured. Thumbelina: Innocence Found (Feral Mom, Feral Writer) Today’s prompts are based on the poem Thumbelina, originally published by The NonBinary Review in Issue #1, Grimm’s Fairytales (available as a […]