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poet interview: dorianne laux

7 Comments Published by Dana March 14th, 2008 in Dana, Dorianne Laux, Poet Interview.

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 [...]

poet interview: matthew rohrer

3 Comments Published by Dana January 31st, 2008 in Dana, Matthew Rohrer, Poet Interview.

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) [...]

WEEKLY READ WRITE PROMPT

July 2, 2008 — The current Get Your Poem On post is here. This is where you leave us a link to your blog, this week in response to Dana ShuffleWords idea, or any other kind of word play. (Or see if RWP-Twitter is for you!)

Next week's prompt will light you up. Thanks, Jill!



WEEKLY READ WRITE ARTICLES

June 26, 2008 — This month Jessica tells us which poets she first picked out to read, all on her own, because she wanted to. Who did you pick out?

Tom's Informal Talk About Forms has got more rhythm.

Christine's latest installment of Get The Lead Out discusses epigraphs. It's an inspired article.

We've been wanting more read here at Read Write Poem and Juliet brings it with her review of Spoken Word Revolution Redux.

January gives us a primer on revision.



POLL DANCE

July 5, 2008 — This time Carolee talks about how we talk about poetry we may not understand straight away in her "poll dance".

There's a new poll up. Yeah, a day early.



RANDOM PROMPTS

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RANDOM WRITING TIP

Shhhh! Listen. Write down whatever you hear, and make note of what you don't hear. Think about writing a poem based on the sense of hearing, rather than the sense of sight.



RANDOM READING TIP

Some poets are so prolific that it would take a year to read all of their works. So, why not take a year and piece through a hefty collected works? You can learn a lot about the development of a poet’s aesthetic by reading their collected works chronologically. Sometimes, reading a famous writer’s juvenilia makes you feel much better about your own junior high verse.



RANDOM COLLABORATING TIP

Cut one of your poems up into words and phrases, place everything in a paper bag, and give the poem puzzle to a collaborator to piece together in a new way. (This can also be done through e-mail if you are collaborating with someone in a different area.)


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