Kelly+Rich

@Final Portfolio

@Kelly R's UG Proposal

@Kelly R's Annotated Bibliography

@Kelly R's User's Guide

@Kelly R's Quatrain Portfolio

Kelly R's UFG Reflection


 * Annotated Bibliography (5) 5 **
 * User’s Guide (10) 8 **
 * Several drafts + Final draft (15) 15 **
 * Reflection on the Process (10) 8 **

** Total(40) 36 ** **I was glad to see a variety of quatrains, experimenting with rhyme and rhythm. I liked best the poem about your grandmother and the tying together of the narrative and the quilt:**

"You are telling your story, Not only in words,  But in every square of fabric that records  A piece of your life’s tapestry."

You work in some imagery in each of the poems, some of it repetitive, like the image of the plant growing and bringing new life. But the images are the substance of the poems, giving them life.
Both the User's Guide and the Reflection did not give insight into the writing process. You mostly say it was difficult to rhyme or keep a beat. You don't say whether you wrote it freely first and then converted the rhyme and rhythm or you wrote it piece by piece, keeping within the the prescribed schemes. The process is important and you should pay closer attention to it. The products, on the other hand, show good promise of a poet-in-the-making.