Note from the management: This post of Christine’s was supposed to run next week! But it is such a lovely one, we’ll leave it up (and probably re-issue it again next Thursday, too, because Christine has a special prompt for next week that ties to ekprhrastic poetry!) But don’t miss Juliet’s book review in your [...]

This book is an intriguing mix of self help and poetry manual.
The tone of the book is relaxed, chatty and women-centered. Each chapter takes the reader through a specific poetic form (e.g. the sonnet) or type (e.g. the letter poem) and suggests which form is best for writing about certain personal situations, giving examples written [...]

It’s July. And except that it’s my birthday month and the birthday month of more than a few of my closest girlfriends (party time!), I really hate July.
I am not a fun-in-the-sun kind of girl. Set aside the fact that I have light blue eyes (greater risk of macular degeneration and plain-old light sensitivity). [...]

To continue with our slightly unusual article subject and format (and the third person narrative started the week before last), we have a new subject to chat about, one we warned you about earlier. Yep. Facebook.
Or to put it as the pundits do: one of the social networking (or utility) tools that has grabbed a [...]

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Like most of us, I came to poetry through school. While I am certainly indebted to many of the great teachers I had in high school and college, sometimes I didn’t like reading poetry in school. Between required textbooks in the school year and recommended reading lists in the summer, it was all too much. [...]

Here in upstate New York, summer officially started less than one week ago. Summer days stretch out before us, the sun shines for hours and the street lights come on later. Fireflies are back in business. The fireworks (the glittering, shining loud lights in the sky) started the day school got out and will no [...]

The word “befuddle” has two distinct, seemingly unrelated meanings. The dictionary at answers.com says this: “1. To confuse; perplex. 2. To stupefy with or as if with alcoholic drink.” While we’re most familiar with the first definition, the second — “to stupefy … as if with alcoholic drink” — gives me spectacular images to [...]