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Did you mix and match this week? Did you try a new poetic form on, or try something outside your usual style? Let us know, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Was your inspiration from something or somewhere else entirely? Tell us about it.
(We’re curious: Did you get to visit protestpoems.org this [...]
read write prompt #29 : mix and match
10 Comments Published by Ren May 28th, 2008 in Read Write Prompt, Ren.I’ve been working in Classical Arab forms. When I told a friend of mine, an Algerian poet, he looked at me as if I’d said I was planning build a Frankenstein from body parts stashed in my basement. When I told him I’d written a “ghazal” (books say it’s pronounced to rhyme with puzzle) he [...]
Sorry this is late, folks! Deb set the the publish date wrong.
Did you write for someone else this week? Was it Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, or someone else? Let us know here, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Perhaps some other act of free speech moved you. Tell us. Link us.
Was your inspiration [...]
read write prompt: #22 speak freely
10 Comments Published by Ren April 9th, 2008 in Read Write Prompt, Ren.This week we welcome one of our participants at Read Write Poem who will be joining our prompt team.
At fourteen Ren Powell read Helen Hayes’ admission of having misinterpreted: “And the Word was God”. Feeling a kinship with Hayes - an awe of the power of words - Ren swapped her teen-angst poems for playwrighting. [...]
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