Gorgeous Gifts for Mr. and Ms. Impossible to Shop For: Whom You Know by Poet Rebecca Strecker. Whom You Know recommends Rebecca's Bespoke Poems!
What do you get for the person that has everything? Something personal, something that they don't have yet, and something that usually money can't buy. In this case, you can buy it however, and check out the work of Poet Rebecca Strecker in today's Gorgeous Gifts for Mr. and Ms. Impossible to Shop For:
Whom You Know
by Rebecca Strecker
6/29/10
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A native New Yorker, Ms. Strecker makes her home in Southern California with her husband and three cats. Rebecca's poetry has been featured in print and on the internet. Currently, Ms. Strecker is writing a series of children's books, and acting as "poet-for-hire," creating unique commemorative poems for anniversaries, weddings, births, memorials and other milestones. Clearly if you read the above, you can see she is quite good!
She tells us:
One day, instead of working for a living, I thought I would earn my keep writing poetry. Then the illusion wore off, but unfortunately, I was stuck.
I specialize in writing sentimental verse to commemorate special occasions, anniversaries, weddings, and other milestones, in addition to tributes to people, places and pets. Many of my commissions come from charitable groups. I also contribute my services to any number of these organizations, for silent auctions and other fund raising events. The last poem I had published was in October 2009 in The Tremor Action Network Newsletter (Spikes & Spasms).
Instead of off-the-rack greeting cards, I try to provide contemporary, intimate, poems that not only reflect the event and the people, but bring out personalities and quirks. I don't want my work to have an institutionalized feel...people reading it should recognize the characters and events. Funny, sad, sentimental. ..the style doesn't matter. In poetry, it really is the thought that counts. We've become such a high-tech, fast-forward, no time to stop and smell the roses world, poetry takes us back to a time when words had meaning, and an heirloom didn't come in a McDonald's Happy Meal.
I've been providing poems via the internet for three years. I've been published on a number of websites and am currently finishing a rhymed children's book, "Doodle Doods," which (if all goes well) is scheduled for publication somewhere around the autumn of 2011.
Here is my website:
