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Sandi J. Holland
hollandwriting_@hotmail.com
"When you read my words I want you to smell watermelon,
and feel the cool juice dripping from your chin.
I want you to see stars twinkle,
and go back and read again to get that same feeling."
I fell in love with poetry when my middle school English teacher introduced
us to poets such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Sandburg and Louis Carroll.
My favorite assignment was having to compile a booklet of poetry and giving
it a title. We could be as creative as we desired, and were encouraged to
illustrate it in whatever manner we chose. When that year ended, I was
hopelessly and madly in love with the craft of poetry writing.
I wrote my first poems about 10 years later, and have been writing ever
since. My first poem published was "Whisper Light,"
"Like a butterfly let me alight, onto the flower that is your life."
My favorite poets are Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
hollandwp.bravepages.com
I HAVE PUBLISHED IN:
* The Midwest Poetry Review
* an SA-DE Books anthology
* several employee newsletters
* customized greeting cards
* independent chapbook publication
MY SPECIALTY IS:
* FREE VERSE- no regular beat or rhyme
* LYRIC- intimate poetry where the poet speaks in own voice, or a
monologue, expressing emotion
* PROSE POETRY- looks like prose but reads like poetry, no rhyme or set
rhythm, unlike regular prose it has intense and condensed language
MY GENERAL WRITING BACKGROUND INCLUDES:
* essays
* speeches
* performing arts articles
* letters to the editor
* announcements/calendars
* seminar materials
* proposals
* job policies/procedures documents
* departmental overview documents
I will always write, spontaneously and induced, and invite you to
".Come, read my words,
and see the wind,
hear colors,
smell sounds."
Greensboro, NC
