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poetry prompt

A different word or phrase will appear here each time you visit the site or refresh the page. Your current prompt is — rive

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collaborating tip

Write a poem, then take out all the important words, leaving only blank spaces. Send it to one or more collaborators and have them fill in the blanks. All the variants could even be collected in a series.

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writing tip

Try to think of something you’ve never read a poem about, and write a poem about that thing.

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reading tip

Many people give up on reading poetry because it’s too hard. But, after you read something difficult, you feel like you can conquer poetry. Quiz your fellow poets to find out what books they’ve found challenging: intellectually, emotionally, or stylistically and give it a try. You may find something that you like, even if you have to bring a long a dictionary, a box of tissues, or both!

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poetry quote

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — Yeats