A year ago tomorrow, Dana, Carolee and Jill posted the meet and greet for this wonderful site and community.
A lot has changed since then. We’ve recently had a new face lift (thanks to the remarkable energy, vision and talent of Dana) and we have grown and evolved as a community (thanks to our contributors and [...]
Seems November is another time to commit to writing every day. Some folks take it up as a simple blogging exercise. Others do the write-a-novel-in-a-month thing. (I think that is crazy, but who knows, maybe one day I will try it. After all, I never thought I would be a blogger.)
Many of us need the [...]
Welcome to the new Read Write Poem! Do you like it? Are you surprised? Pleasantly, we hope! We’ve been busy — behind the scenes — reworking the template and mixing up Read Write Poem.
Why? We wanted to do a few things:
Pretty up the site with new clothes and a cute haircut. Isn’t it nice?
Mix things [...]
A few weeks ago Tom’s article inspired us (Christine and Deb) to ask you to help us write a rengu. Below is that result, so far. (The linked first word leads you to the contributor’s blog.)
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Hot pavements –
littered with
tired bees.
Sunshine on fresh grass
I am stuck inside
writing poetry.
A meandering of ants
to a forgotten popsicle.
Dry [...]
Carolee is on vacation for a couple of weeks. While we will miss her terribly, it does give us a chance to take over the poll dance and write something having to do with, you guessed it: collaboration. (Smell a conspiracy? Nope. Carolee really is on vacation, although she is here in spirit. And she [...]
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 [...]
*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 [...]
We’ve made a NaPoWriMo celebration button that you are most welcome to add to your blog. (Although I’d rather toast your success or commiserate a less-than-planned outcome!).
Button Sample and Code
<a href=”http://readwritepoem.org/category/napowrimo/” mce_href=”http://readwritepoem.org/category/napowrimo/” ></a><img src=” http://readwritepoem.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/celebrate_napowrimo_08_rwp.jpg” mce_src=” http://readwritepoem.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/celebrate_napowrimo_08_rwp.jpg” height=”60″ width=”150″ /></a>
Well, you’re near the end of April, of National Poetry Month, of NaPoWriMo!
Sigh … in relief, remorse, resolution …
Some of you have practiced writing daily and some have posted a poem daily. Some have made up your own rules and kept them or broken them. Some (like me) found you couldn’t stay with daily writing [...]
Here, below, is a list of poet’s (by blog name) who said they were participating in NaPoWriMo this year. I added everyone who commented or who emailed. It might be that you’ve langished since (it’s OK … I’m afraid I am have, too) the initial excitement phase. You wrote some poetry. That is good.
9 to [...]
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