*and the one wherein Deb and Dana refer to themselves in third person
For this week’s Get Your Poem On, Deb and Dana are throwing a wrench into the works. We know y’all like to come here to the Get Your Poem On post and, well, get. your. poem. on. Which makes perfect sense. However, in [...]

Following up on last month’s talk about the two “root” styles of verse, today we’ll explore metrical verse. Most formal poetry uses this as its basis.
Metrical Verse
Most English verse uses an accentual-syllabic rhythm. While this could be four stresses in an eight-syllable line with no regard to the pattern, most accentual-syllabic verse uses meter: iambic [...]

I was over at Via Negativa recently, where Dave Bonta created an outstanding poem using the method given at ShuffleWords.
Basically, you take the words given to you, move them around on your screen and come up with a poem. It’s sort of like refrigerator magnet poetry but the word choices must be better, since Dave’s [...]

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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
~Emily Dickenson

Some people would raise their eyebrows and shake their heads to know that I mark up my books a lot as I read them. I guess it’s rude in a way, if you think about the next person who might pick up the book [...]

I love recycling and was fascinated by January’s recent article about revising poetry, so here’s a quick recycling prompt: Take an old poem and revise it, either polish it or totally rework it - then share both versions with us! If you want, share your thoughts about the process, in your blog post (or here)!
Idea for [...]

Kermit said it best: “It’s not easy being green.” It’s hard to be who you are, sometimes, and if who you are is a writer, you face some difficult choices when it comes to writing about intense subjects. What do you share? How much do you share? With whom do you share?
Many topics are [...]

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, a story you were given[heard, told, overheard, handed or...].
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I think that reading is one of the most fruitful activities a poet can undertake, because it is such a varied source of inspiration. 
Inspiration can come in many forms, from immersing yourself in your environment to listening to music.  For me, reading other poets has been my greatest source of inspiration, because I can see [...]

I struggled a bit to come up with a topic for this prompt. Absolutely nothing seemed like a good idea. Idly, I was flipping through feeds in Google Reader, and came across a post by Kristin Gorski of “Write now is good”.
Our world of storytellers
Our lives are full of the stories we tell: bits about [...]