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 [...]

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 [...]

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Mich., and raised in Oklahoma. He earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry, and a master of fine arts in poetry from the University of Iowa.
His books are Rise Up (2007), A Green Light (2004), Satellite (2001) [...]

Before diving into the details of the Get Your Poem On post, I want to thank …deb again for stepping in to manage Read Write Poem. I also wanted to share a little bit about her:
Deb Scott first starting writing poetry while in the throes of angst-ridden pubescence. A long, long separation ensued until a [...]

Great news to report. …deb of Stoney Moss has agreed to head up Read Write Poem. We’ll have more details soon, but I wanted to get the news out there to the community. Everyone welcome …deb and thank her for taking over the project.
Oh, and in case anyone is looking for a prompt (albeit a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The results from Read Write Poll #1 are in! Of 38 voters: 45% say they write a poem at least once a week, 32% say they write poetry daily, 24% write when the mood strikes, and 0% say they don’t write poetry but love reading it.
(There must be some rounding going on with the [...]

Welcome to the first-ever Read Write Prompt. This week, we’ll focus on American Sentences. Some people don’t like the name, but please don’t be put off by it. It’s simply the name Allen Ginsberg chose for this poetry form, which is a single sentence of 17 syllables. You can read more about American Sentences at [...]