VERSEDAY #2 Gabrielle Prendergast talks to Leslea Newman

This year I’m participating in a group blog called VerseDay, which was conceived of by author Gabrielle Prendergast. It’s a yearlong celebration of all things verse, with a different blogger writing about some aspect of verse each Thursday. I signed up for two turns – one in April and the other in October. This week’s post is presented by VerseDay founder, Gabrielle, and can be found on her website Angelhorn : http://wp.me/p1NlZX-Ga

Here’s a short excerpt:

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“Some Writer’s Resolutions Inspired by Verse Novelist Leslea Newman"

For my first VerseDay post I want to share what I learned and resolved after chatting with poet Lesléa Newman.

When I chatted with Lesléa Newman earlier this week about her magnificent verse novel OCTOBER MOURNING:A Song for Matthew Shepard, I was interested to learn that she didn't write the poems that make up this extraordinary book in order.

GabrielleSaraP: OCTOBER MOURNING is both a verse novel and a collection of poetry which would appeal to fans of both forms. Any comments?

Lesleanewman: I really thought of it as a collection of themed poems, as opposed to a verse novel…”

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If Verseday sounds interesting to you, there is still time and room for you to participate. Head over to the VerseDay page on the Verse Novels website: http://versenovels.com/verseday-2013/

01/10/2013