WEEKLY READ WRITE PROMPT

July 2, 2008 — The current Get Your Poem On post is here. This is where you leave us a link to your blog, this week in response to Dana ShuffleWords idea, or any other kind of word play. (Or see if RWP-Twitter is for you!)

Next week's prompt will light you up. Thanks, Jill!

WEEKLY READ WRITE ARTICLES

June 26, 2008 — This month Jessica tells us which poets she first picked out to read, all on her own, because she wanted to. Who did you pick out?

Tom's Informal Talk About Forms has got more rhythm.

Christine's latest installment of Get The Lead Out discusses epigraphs. It's an inspired article.

We've been wanting more read here at Read Write Poem and Juliet brings it with her review of Spoken Word Revolution Redux.

January gives us a primer on revision.

POLL DANCE

July 5, 2008 — This time Carolee talks about how we talk about poetry we may not understand straight away in her "poll dance".

There's a new poll up. Yeah, a day early.

RANDOM PROMPTS

A different word or phrase will appear here each time you visit the site or refresh the page. Your current prompt is — collapse

RANDOM WRITING TIP

Write a poem wherein someone wants something that he or she cannot get.

RANDOM READING TIP

Even though free verse is the dominant style now, formal poetry was popular for hundreds of years. Alternate some of the modern or classical masters of formal verse with modern writers of free verse. Don’t know where to start? Try Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marilyn Hacker, Agha Shahid Ali, Maxine Kumin and many others.

RANDOM COLLABORATING TIP

Put together a group of words you like, and send it to a collaborator with instructions to use those words in a poem.