Revisionaries

This week’s revision activity is to change how your poem looks on the page. You may accomplish this by doing something dramatic like breaking a prose poem into lines or turning a poem with line breaks into a prose poem. You may do it more subtly by cutting long lines up into shorter ones or

I am very late on this prompt, but I actually did this kind of revision today without realizing it was last weeks Revisionaries task! Here it is: http://redpetals04.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/kitchen-window/

so glad you all are still working! i like how some of you removed the narrator and some of you added one. yippee! excellent results!

Ah! I almost missed Monday! I’m getting ready for vacation and I had lots of errands to run today. Suddenly, Monday is nearly over!In the spirit of travel and a change of scenery, this week’s revision activity is to take one of your poems and put it in a different venue. Give it a new

This week’s revision activity is very nuts and bolts. Take a look at a poem you’d like to juice up a bit and do some or all of the following tasks on this checklist:* Remove all adverbs.* Red-flag all "be" verbs and try to replace them with action verbs.* Go commando on clichés: Clear ‘em

Sink your ‘talons’ into Bankers Greed….

Here’s my revision of “A Better Look,” a poem I wrote earlier in 2009 (not for RWP). I may still continue to re-work the lines, but here at least is one possible re-lineation for this week’s exercise.http://theresebroderick.wordpress.com/rwp-revisionaries/

Feel free to post it in any of the revision forums, then. (I’m making a new one now, actually). In this particular group, people aren’t used to commenting on poems posted outside the forums so they may miss this one.Let me know if you have any questions. (The best way to do that is to

Sunday morning and I’m just now getting Monday’s revision pulled together.This has gotten out of hand, and I’d appreciate your looking and giving feedback. It’s called Three

Here’s mine: Another one about birds(I just edited the link so it’s correct now.)