Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Tania Runyan. Today’s poem will leave you wanting red.
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Poetry Classroom: Sestina for Brood XIII
We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises. Up today? A sestina.
Journey into Poetry: Amber Haines
Poetry acknowledged invisible things, the things that haunt us. Amber Haines shares her journey into poetry.
Personal Pantoum Fest (A Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines tried his hand at this month’s theme. Writing a pantoum was an exercise in discipline, sticking to the strictures of a poetry form. And like it or not, the poetic form assisted in maintaining and conveying the chaotic sense of the story.
Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel
“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.
Memoir Workshop: Let It Make All the Difference
Looking to get your memoir published? Or explore memoir techniques, as a form of personal journey? This might be the workshop for you.
Pant, Pant, “Ou-ou-oum” (A Goat Song Pantoum Poetry Prompt)
One Direction and Bon Jovi are all over the new goat song craze. We kick off our March Pantoum poetry theme with a playlist for the goat pantoum.
2013 Memoir Workshop
Looking to get your memoir published? Or explore memoir techniques, as a form of personal journey? This might be the workshop for you. Starts April 1st • Class limited to 10 participants Online memoir workshop with editor Mick Silva. Mick has served as an editor at Waterbrook/Random House. We think you’re going to appreciate his […]
Journey into Poetry: Todd Davis
Poet Todd Davis shares his journey into poetry, inspired by his father.
Let’s Go Crazy–A Potpourri Purple Poetry Prompt of Tyrannosaurical Proportions
From Barney the purple dinosaur to Little Jack Horner’s plum-popping thumb, Seth Haines has a new purple poetry prompt.
Journey into Poetry: Paula J. Lambert
Paula J. Lambert describes her Journey into Poetry, from aspiring fiction writer to published poet, by way of pigs and prose.
The Symbolic Duke and a Purple Play (A Poetry Prompt)
As the guest of honor, Alexandrovitch was given the right to declare the colors for Mardi Gras. He chose purple to signify justice, green to represent faith, and gold for kingly power. Seth Haines has chosen the same for a poetry prompt.
Purple Plays (An Associative Poetry Prompt)
Men have long lusted after the cherry-red Porsche, or the ruby-red lips of their lovers. The perfect little black dress is the staple of the refined lady’s closet. Children have long dreaded the color “school-bus yellow.” What objects do you most associate with colors purple and indigo? What emotional states do the colors bring to mind? Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt.
Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-Good Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines invites you to share your purple-themed poetry, your indigo verses, your plum-good musings with a new poetry prompt and themed playlist. Who knows, maybe we’ll feature your work in an upcoming piece at Tweetspeak!
Poetry Classroom: Sour Plums
In this final week of Poetry Classroom with Anne M. Doe Overstreet, we invite you to consider signing up for Anne’s 2013 Poetry Workshop.
Teaching Poetry to Children: There Are So Many Blues
“Oh, my kids aren’t poetic at all, ” she said. “Prepare yourself for a big flop.” Ann Kroeker takes on the challenge of teaching poetry to children.
Battle of the Beverages (Another Coffee Poetry Prompt)
The beverage wars are on. This week’s poetry prompt pits coffee against soft drinks (or any other drink, really) in a duel to the death.
Poetry Classroom: Immolation
Welcome to the Poetry Classroom. You are invited to discuss the poem ‘Immolation’—its form, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
How Do You Take It? (A Coffee Poetry Prompt)
Cream is only good when it’s fronted by Eric Clapton, and the highest form of coffee sacrilege is its dilution with dairy. That’s one man’s opinion. What about you? How you take it? Seth Haines has another poetry prompt.
Poetry Classroom: Shade Half Drawn
In the Poetry Classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.