Did you mix and match this week? Did you try a new poetic form on, or try something outside your usual style? Let us know, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Was your inspiration from something or somewhere else entirely? Tell us about it.
(We’re curious: Did you get to visit protestpoems.org this [...]
Posted by Ren on 06.02.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Get Your Poem On, Ren , ghazal, new poetic form, original poetry, poetic form, protest poems, Read Write Poem, Read Write Prompt, sonnet, streching your poetic style
Sorry this is late, folks! Deb set the the publish date wrong.
Did you write for someone else this week? Was it Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, or someone else? Let us know here, and put a link to your poem in the comments.
Perhaps some other act of free speech moved you. Tell us. Link us.
Was your inspiration [...]
Posted by Ren on 04.14.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Get Your Poem On, Ren , Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, freedom of speech poetry, original poetry, poem prompts, political poetry, protest poems, Read Write Poem, ren powell
This week we welcome one of our participants at Read Write Poem who will be joining our prompt team.
At fourteen Ren Powell read Helen Hayes’ admission of having misinterpreted: “And the Word was God”. Feeling a kinship with Hayes — an awe of the power of words — Ren swapped her teen-angst poems for playwrighting. [...]
Posted by Ren on 04.09.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Read Write Prompt, Ren , First they came for the Jews, freedom of speech, freedom poetry, human rights poetry, Pastor Martin Niemöller, protest poems, Read Write Poem, ren powell, women's human rights