I regret to announce that Read Write Poem will not be continuing. I have reassessed my commitments and priorities for the new year, and I have realized that I cannot continue to manage the project at this time. I am happy to pass the project along to anyone who is interested in managing it. Please [...]

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We realize everyone is very busy this time of year, and we hope you all are enjoying the holidays — perhaps even finding ways to work poetry in here and there between spending time with family and friends, and taking time for yourself to reflect on the year and look ahead to the new year.
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We hope those of you who signed up to collaborate had interesting experiences with that process. You might want to not only share the work you created but also talk about the process of working together. And if you didn’t collaborate with someone this week, that’s fine. You can share whatever you want, as long [...]

A quick note: We’re putting together an e-mail list for those who want to receive updates now and again about the project. If you did not receive an e-mail asking if you want to receive future e-mails, please sign up for the list by sending an e-mail to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. (I know [...]

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There’s a room in my house I like to call “my room,” a la Virginia Woolf’s essay, “A Room of One’s Own.” In truth the space also serves as a storage room for family art projects, files, junk mail waiting for the shredder, winter clothes and books that keep trickling into our house, as well [...]

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Poetry has a strange dual-identity. Historically, and certainly currently, much of poetry existed to be spoken or performed. It had a rhythm and timing in the delivery, the speech or chanting of the poet being the form of the poem.
Rendered on the page, poems still have a rhythm (even if it is not patterned) and [...]

Note: We’ll be commenting on the results of Read Write Poll #2 soon and will let you know what kinds of things you can look forward to seeing on the site as it evolves.
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