Unlike our everyday writing, poetry is artistic, expressive, and figurative. Understanding the subject of a poem The first thing you should do when given a poem is read its title carefully.
Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.
Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...
Don’t overthink, don’t plan ahead, don’t stop. There’s no pressure – you’re not writing a poem yet, just writing, digging up the dirt you’ll sift for gold later. If the teacup you ...
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Feeling like a wordsmith? Here's how to write a poem and prompts to get you startedEver heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Is it imagery? Format? Rhyme? Start by sampling a few poets.
Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has helped him heal.
A Sahitya Akademi awardee and nominee for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Arundhathi is today one of India’s most prominent voices in ...
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