Lately, I've been trying to get back into the local poetry scene. There really isn't a scene, unless you're a young adult & into slam. But I was able to reconnect with a group that meets at a bookstore downtown (Crazy Wisdom) every other week. This month, even though they traditionally have no events scheduled for August, one of the informal ( Read more... )

Hmm. Had an idea to write a poem using a word (or words) that I normally would not come across in a poem.

This might be dangerous. Well, they always say write as though to risk something.

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So I'm limping along as far as NaNo is concerned. I noticed not too long ago that I was resisting in direct response to the amount of internal pressure I placed. I need to get to a place where I say to myself "I get to write a poem today" instead of "I have to ( Read more... )

Serious writer's block going on over here.

Spare some ideas for poems? Perhaps you have a starting line or a handful of words that seek completion.

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