52 Ways of Looking at a Poem is based on the articles Ruth Padel wrote for the Independent on Sunday newspaper.
The idea behind the articles and the book is to encourage the reader to read poetry more closely, to pay more attention to both form and meaning. Fifty-two poems are chosen — one for each [...]

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Did you dig up some good dinosaur poems this week? Explore the nature of the monstrous?
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I can’t imagine I’m the only one here to have had a childhood fascination with dinosaurs, and when I got the chance earlier this [...]

Were you in the moment to write this week’s poem? Whether you wrote haiku, tanka or anything else, in the moment or not, leave a link here to your blog and your poem so we can all read it.
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The world can sometimes seem so full of distractions that we don’t notice what is around us. This week’s prompt offers an opportunity to sit still and focus, to be in the moment and to use that as inspiration for writing poetry.
Either sit in your usual writing place, focus on what is around you there [...]

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 [...]

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Be sure to check back through the week and see other people’s revised work, or any other idea that they’ve chosen to share for Read Write Poem!
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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)!
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In true Poetry Slam style, the Spoken Word Revolution Redux CD and book set starts out by putting a Poet Laureate head to head with a Slam Champion. Ted Kooser (former USA Poet Laureate) vs Anis Mojgani (twice National Poetry Slam Individual Champion); Andrew Motion (current UK Poet Laureate) vs Sonya Renee (former National Poetry [...]

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Be sure to check back through the week and see what others have written in response to science fiction poetry, or any other idea: Read Write Poem!
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