Rules are all around us. Nearly every moment of every day, we are presented with the choice of whether to follow the rules or break them. When at a street intersection, do you come to a complete stop or a rolling stop? Do you say please and thank you whenever you interact with an [...]
Get your Wordle on. These words were contributed by Read Write Poem participants Michelle McGrane and Deb Richardson.
You can link here if you’d like. But you’ll get a few more people stopping by if you post a link to your poetry on Thursday’s Get Your Poem On post.
After receiving a rejection from an editor that said my poems didn’t have “oomph,” I have been thinking a lot lately about what gives a poem oomph. You know, the heart of a poem, its meat. The lines that let you know what the poet is really thinking or feeling, the ah-ha moment [...]
It’s Monday. That means it’s time for the semi-weekly image prompt. Write whatever you like in response to the image below. Leave a link on our Thursday Get Your Poem On post. Leave another link Thursday for the Read Write Prompt. Or leave a link Thursday to whatever you like.
This heart is yours by Kyknoord
Who’s ready for some visual stimulation? This is our first Read Write Image prompt, companion to our Read Write Word prompt that you may have worked on last week. We want this prompt to be as open as possible. What is your response to the image? What about this image really strikes you?
We want your [...]
This week’s Read Write Prompt started as a conversation in the comments over on my blog last week. Melissa Fondakowski of Poet with a Day Job said that she appreciated my working the term “glossolalia” into one of my poems and added that using the word “echolalia” in a poem would be even cooler.
I thought [...]
We’ve got our raw material from part 1 of read write prompt #48, now it’s time to poem. I really want to make it clear that what we have here is a very rough draft of something. Your work now is to make a poem out of it. I made a rough stanza form and [...]
Read Write What, you ask? Let me explain: We’re going to try a new thing here every Monday, which is sharing an additional prompt that you can use to jump-start your writing.
That’s right. Now you don’t just have the Read Write Prompt to look forward to but a prompt on Monday as well, one that [...]
Just a quick recap of what you can find over here and when.
Monday: Read Write Word or Read Write Image *
Thursday: Get Your Poem On
Friday: Read Write Prompt
* The Read Write Word and Read Write Image are two new types of prompts we’ll be serving up on alternating Mondays, so you’ll have those to work [...]
Read five poems by the same author, or five poems from five different poets. From each poem, choose a word you like, a word that jumps out at you. Write words cards (with one word noted on a card or paper slip), and place them in a box or an envelope. I use an old [...]
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