The rules of a sonnet, it turns out, set us free to explore.
Archives for July 2011
The Village Watched: A Random Act of Poetry
There were so many great conversations, visual and verbal, offered up for this month’s collaborative prompt between The High Calling’s PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry.
Waiting for the Every Day
I love these little notes I get behind the scenes, about Every Day Poems.
Let’s Talk in Pictures
The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.
The Cinnamon Beetle 3
We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Pick Up Six—Or How One Poet Teases Another
I met him by email, and before I knew what was happening, James Cummins had challenged me to a game of six. Six words he chose, which I was charged to use as end-words in a sestina.
My Sestina is a Space Six-Shooter
My favorite poetic form, the sestina, gives me space to explore implication.
When a Poem’s from South Africa
One of the things I love about doing Every Day Poems is the way it brings various parts of my life together.
The Cinnamon Beetle 2
Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Drawing Poetry by the Lake
A good poem does that—offers multiple gifts upon multiple readings.
The Cinnamon Beetle
Somehow, Legos, cinnamon beetles, tattoos and open windows became the focus of the early part of our Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 5
Below are the final five poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Anne Overstreet’s “Delicate Machinery Suspended”
This collection, Overstreet’s first, displays a command of language, style and content that is deeply affecting. You are watching a series of scenes filmed with the eye of an artist.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 4
Something unusual happened with this group during the Twitter poetry party; you’ll see it in the last two poems.