I’m so lucky to count Pamela Ferguson among my friends. I’ve admired her poetry for a long time and loved her visits to my old studio where the Voices de la Luna poetry group met. And I got to see her in a new incarnation when she attended the Small Worlds workshop last weekend!

Pamela just sent me a poem inspired by her collage creation – I thought you’d like to see it. She addresses the very personal connection between the art we make and the words we write.

Here’s more about Pamela’s work:

Pamela Ferguson is a native of San Antonio and a proud resident of the Texas Hill Country. She is a late bloomer, having attained her BA in English at the age of 48. The desire to write has been with her as long as she can remember and this goal was achieved when she was hired a technical writer by a local pharmaceutical manufacturing company. Pamela has written poetry since she was a teen but got serious about it in the 1990’s. She has published numerous poems in literary journals across the States including The Journal of the Texas Council of Teachers of English, Aries, New Texas, and Lucidity. Winner of the 2006 Laurel Crown Poetry competition for her poem, “Hand me Down,” Pamela has participated in San Antonio area poetry festivals and readings, has received several awards, had many poems published in local journals.

Thanks, Pamela, for sharing your thoughts and image. I’m thinking that an art and poetry workshop might be on the horizon! I’m getting the summer and fall schedule together right now – this could be a winner!

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