by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2018 | Poetry |
Do you value poetry and its power to make positive change? Poetry Patrons: People Power Poets used to rely on elites–kings and queens, lords and ladies, tribal leaders and arts councils–to support their work. Only the well-to-do could afford the luxury of...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Howard Lovy, Managing Editor at The Alliance of Independent Authors, did a Q&A with me recently about my latest experiment: poetry on Patreon. Though it was poetry that first got me into self-publishing, I realized recently I had all sorts of assumptions that were...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2014 | Poetry |
My mother's name is Brigid, though everyone knows her as Ida, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. St Brigid, one of the patron saints of Ireland, whose feast day is today, the old Irish imbolc the first day of spring. Much to my own surprise...