Writer's Week 2011

Sadly I was only there for one day of writer’s week so, I can only comment on the first day. Here we go.

Mary Fons: I loved how Mary Fons was so open. It was like she was talking to audience like we were her close personal friends when clearly we were not. She also made each poem special in its own way; it was like each poem had its own personality. For example her father’s day poem was kind of depressing. I remember one thing she said from that poem was, “to say that I have missed you lately is to say that I have been breathing lately.” If you think about that is depressing. She always misses her father but never really could do anything about it because it was just natural to miss him. Mary Fons couldn’t even write about him until the poem that she told us so I think that was cool that she could share those feelings with us high school students. Another thing I liked about Mary Fons was her take on love and people you care about. She said something along the lines of this: at some point the text messages stop for the things that really matter and people start to do things that are meaningful like writing poetry. I think that’s so true, and I really liked that she said that because it got me thing about the people that really matter in my life. Last but not least I really like how Mary Fons compared poems to jewels in a box. Each one takes a long time to perfect, but in the end it is worth it. That really can be applied to anything you have to work for in life so I liked how it could be connected to me. Overall I think Mary Fons was an amazing writer and presenter at writer’s week.