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Margreet de Heer's avatar

I love this!

Andrea M. Alesci's avatar

Wow, how nice to read about your notebook! I too have one in which for many years I have been jotting down words I like because of their sound or the figures they create in my head, and they are often unusual words.

I look forward to read "Poetry Comics" also in Italy!

Grant Snider's avatar

Thank you, Andrea! Great to hear about your notebook practice, I love it.

Will Granger's avatar

Great stuff!

Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

Again, one to save and savor forever.

Andrei Atanasov's avatar

How awesome! I didn’t know many of these, and now I’m longing to use smurr and murmuration in an essay!

Fibro Vision's avatar

Thank you for the reminder of murmuration, I'd forgotten it, what wonderful word. I'm so glad I found you!

Grant Snider's avatar

Yes! It's a great word for winter here in Kansas where I live, the flocks are everywhere :)

Diane BF78's avatar

What a treasure indeed!

Michelle Strasser's avatar

Treasure is the perfect word for this collection! The illustrations are lovely and add so much to the meaning of these words. Have you read The Lost Words: A Spell Book? Also a nice collection of beautiful illustrations paired with words that were dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary years ago.

Can't wait to get my hands on Poetry Comics! Thanks!!

Grant Snider's avatar

Thanks for the book recommendation, I will check it out! Sounds fantastic.

Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

Wonderful vocabulary words! In an age of young adult dictionaries removing words due to lack of use in YA literature, these are fantastic to see.

Grant Snider's avatar

Thank you! Here's to heavy, cumbersome dictionaries full of unusual words :)

Jenny Homan's avatar

I love these! Never stop please.

JQ Rose's avatar

I am a wordnerd so your Substack topic is perfect for me. Love the comics that accompany the words. I usually highlight a word in Kindle when a new one pops out at me. You reminded me to actually go back and write them down! Thanks. Very entertaining.

KF's avatar

Hi Grant, I love your words and work, thank you for sharing.

I was wondering if you would consider when sharing your work online, if adding underneath each word the opportunity to hear the spoken word?

A hyperlink or tab for those who love words, AND have a Neurodivergent brain that needs assistance to access the words. I know many Neurodivergent brains need visual descriptors of images also.... Just a thought for allowing as many people as possible to access and love your work.

Grant Snider's avatar

That's a great idea, I will look into how to do that. Thank you for the message! Neurodivergence is a topic close to me as we have ADHD and autism spectrum in my household.

KF's avatar

My pleasure 😊 Same in our household and family 🥰😍🤩

Deborah T. Hewitt's avatar

I absolutely love these!!! So talented!

Roel WT Cruys's avatar

The necessity of art is to give voice to the emotions and motions unspoken.

Grant, what you do is not only build the bridge in a fun way, you make all of us poets and writers.

Grant Snider's avatar

Well said, Roeland! Thanks so much

Sheila's avatar

What a lovely idea! I didn’t clock for a few words that these were actual words and not sounds/made up!