So what did you hear this week? We want to know!
From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink (one per comment, please!) to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
We hope you took the time to write something based on snippets of overheard conversations , [...]

Here’s the long and short of it….
Can we really write thirty poems in thirty days? Yes, we can!
This past November I participated in NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month. After joining Dana’s group, readwritepoem, I used the challenge of posting every day to write a poem a day. I was able to write thirty poems by [...]

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“I’ve done nothing but cry all day. All day I’ve cried.” “It looks pretty gloomy for the first day of Spring.” “Then he took my cat outside.” “It’s perfect for a bachelor.” Random words. Anonymous opinions. Sad truths. Humorous observations. Snippets of other people’s conversation can serve as great inspiration for your writing. Actually, writing [...]

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Next Tuesday is April Fool’s Day. (You’d think it would end March Madness- the State’s NCAA college basketball championship, but no, the final four is April 5th and the final game is April 7th.)
April is National Poetry Month (in the US). Read Write Poem will be supporting you as you celebrate, in a variety of ways. Read on [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written in response to ideas about garbage- or other environmental issues: Read Write Poem!
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Give me some room! (For creating space in a life for writing.)
If I haven’t had my cup of poetry in the morning, I’m a real bear. Since I work in the late afternoons and early evenings, mornings are my quiet time, when I sit down to do some writing.
It’s fun to learn about the rituals different [...]

As Juliet mentioned on Monday, this Friday - March 21 -  is World Poetry Day.

So I thought we could all take some time to go green this week. Laud the beauty of nature, decry the ruin of the earth, or simply ponder all the things we throw away and ask yourself this fundamental question: what is [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution.
Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written in response to ideas about trees, or writing from different viewpoints - or [...]

For this installment of the Read Write Poem Poet Interview, I interviewed Dorianne Laux via e-mail. I had the pleasure of meeting Laux the summer of 2006 when she was teaching at The Tomales Bay Workshops Writers’ Conference.
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon [...]