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Iambic Group Poem Needs a Title
Here is the Iambic Group Poem, Glen Meisenheimer guided us to produce at the Poetry Workshop last week. There were 12 participants, but we forgot to title it. Any suggestions? The time she waits on none who tarry long Instead she dances t’wards her scheduled end. Ignoring worries; seeking pleasure’s song, She hopes to make […]
Poetry Community on Line
Glen Meisenheimer told poetry workshop participants about https://www.allpoetry.com It’s free to join and you can receive feedback on your poems. Look for Glen’s poems. He read some of his funny limericks and his poem about a young student in Viet Nam that he helped receive an education. I joined the site, submitted a poem and […]
Poetry Workshop
I attended a poetry workshop this morning with Julie K. Royce, author of PILZ, Paula Chinick, author of RED ASSCHER, and Carol McLean, poet and essayist. Glen Meisenheimer demonstrated how to write a poem in anapest and iambic meters. As a group, there were twelve of us, we wrote a joint poem for each and […]
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A Character’s Life
In MAKE YOUR WORDS WORK, Gary Provost suggests writers show that the main character has lived a life before the present time. We have to avoid blocks of information by using backstory sprinkles, but how do we show that our characters go to movies, admire a high school teacher, or have friends in Antarctica? Those […]