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Our online Living Poetry Book Club pick for this month is: SWAN by Mary Oliver. SWAN was published in 2010. You can find SWAN here on Amazon. We will be reading from Feb 1 – 20. Comments will be posted between Feb 20 – 28. General instructions and a reading list can be found here. Please write your … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: Wikipedia Wikipedia features everyday: an article, news of the day, on this day… and a picture. Go to Wikipedia a few times this week, pick one topic, fact or picture that speaks to you… maybe research it a bit, then write a poem about it. Happy Writing!
Blue Rust by Joseph Millar You got to love the introductory quotes by Roethke, Neruda, and Neil Young. It is a joy when a book starts out with little gems that make you pause and ponder and you haven’t read a single poem yet. I think the title of the book sets the tone: Blue … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: visual – Crab Nebula (Hubble photograph)
This week’s prompt: write a list poem To write a list poem, you could use the following as your inspiration: Titels or first lines or last lines of your favorite poet, or your least favorite poet Song titles of your favorite musician during the course of a day or week, collect advertisement slogans that catch your attention … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: write an Ars Poetica poem A poetry teacher of mine once said to his class, poets should only be allowed to write about writing once a year. So let’s get it out of the way: let’s write an ars poetica poem. During the summer I read an unusual, yet intriguing Ars Poetica … Continue reading
This week’s prompt: a cliche – write about how you envision 2017 to pan out … what you want to change… what you hope for… plans you have already made or are still going to make… Since it is a cliche topic, stuff the poem with cliches. Once, do what we are always told not … Continue reading
We are kicking off our online book club with Blue Rust by Joseph Millar. Blue Rust was published in 2012. You can find Blue Rust here on Amazon. We will be reading from Jan 1 – 22. Comments will be posted between Jan 23 – 31. General instructions and a reading list can be found … Continue reading
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