Beth Bernstein-Yamashiro is a leadership consultant in public education and has been principal of two Los Angeles charter schools. She lives in Santa Monica.

Our teacher and mentor improvised this poem after class while we taught him how to use his voice memo app. Enjoy the gorgeous improv. To learn more about Jack and Method Writing please visit JackGrapes.com

Sue has been studying Method Writing with Jack Grapes since 2019 and is a member of Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. Her first book of poetry, The Bits Left Behind, will be published soon.

Season 2 spotlights my brilliant writer friends from Jack Grapes’ Method Writing class. Starting thinks of is Lisa Segal! Lisa teaches poetry and writing through the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective. She’s authored four books and co-edited an anthology. Her writing appears in anthologies and journals and has won prizes in poetry contests. She is a founding member of StudioElevenArtists, a Los Angeles artist collective. Find her books on Amazon and at http://bombshelterpress.com/

I am a poet, a purpose, a promise…

I don’t want the soup. I want the memory of having had the soup.

If words were other words what words would they be?

It’s up to you

i want pet dragons…

It’s funny, the little things that can annoy us in life. But what about the delights? “A car too purple, a sky too wet…”