Round One=Therese Broderick

I learned that Therese Broderick has a daughter who is eighteen, and that she wrote a book of poems about different moments in her daughter's life called At April's End. I also learned that she "frequently contemplate the transience of life" in her poems. I learned that much of the book were poems about important moments in a person's life. I learned that when she writes a poem that she wants it to be "a beautiful work of human language (spoken/heard) that leads to wonder about the human condition." I learned that she likes a poet who is named Eavan Boland,  who wrote poems and essays about daughters, like Therese Broderick. I learned that she writes poems and makes it so they flow well from one line to the next, while she tells a story in the writing.(137) In one of her poems she use repitition of the words "never forget" to help get her ideas and points across. In another of her poems where it talks about how she went to see her father who was in the hospital with her daughter. The way she describes it really allows you to picture what her father was like in that moment and made it seem like you were there, especially when she wrote "this seeping of blood down a bluing face".(200) It allowed you to get a feeling a what it was like to be there and the feelings that she was having while there. I also learned that she is very descriptive, like when she wrote "robins with orange bellies skimming across a green bay" and she is able to connect things together to create a poem that I don't know if I could connect.

• how do you make sure your work flows well?
• what do you do when you get stuck while writing?