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Category: poetry
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micro POETRY: It’s anything but…
Want to sharpen up your writing skills? Give micro-poetry a try. People slam Twitter, but the truth is, it’s very difficult to put a lot of meaning into a very short space, and Tweeps can be very creative in how they do it. 140 characters is not a lot when it comes to crafting…
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Ace Made the Quarter-finals in the Casey Shay Poetry Chapbook Contest!
Ok, nail-biting time all over again! My chapbook of poetry, Kaleidoscope: Bright Lives, Broken, made the quarter-finals in this year’s Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Contest. That’s exciting, but that’s just round one. We’ve been narrowed down to about 160, and the semi-finals will cut that number drastically, down to about 30. Fingers crossed…
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Poetry from newspapers!
Well, after all our serious study of Cody Klippenstein’s amazing fiction, it’s time to take a bit of a break and take a lighter look at that daily newspaper that’s in your hands while you’re drinking your morning coffee… First, take a peek at what I did with one headline that I found…
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Golden Gloves to Wilder Soul
Ok, the symbolism task was NOT EASY yesterday, but one writer took the challenge head on and did a great job–connotation, symbolism, and allusion to show depth. The trouble is, I don’t know the NAME of this person, or where she’s from, but her (his?) pseudonym is… WILDER SOUL It’s 15:23 and I am…
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Poetry Week #005: Test Day!
Ok, it’s test day! The first task, if you haven’t done that already, is to read yesterday’s post about connotation, symbolism, and allusion in Lorna Crozier’s “Crossing Willow Bridge.” Your job today is to look at Karen Connelly’s “From My Father’s Hand,” and see what you can find. Objects and items and symbols abound. What…
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Poetry week #004: Crozier and symbolism
First, read this poem by Lorna Crozier quickly: CROSSING WILLOW BRIDGE On the farm a willow bridge though this is Saltspring Island not Japan. Sometimes it crosses water, sometimes not. This morning after rain the ground slides into mud. My mother and I tread our way to see the baby llama in the far…
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Poetry week #003: How does that SOUND to you?
Important tools in the toolkit of any poet are devices involving SOUND. There are many to choose from, but let’s focus on a few today. I’ll get some quick definitions out of the way, then demonstrate what I mean by them with a poem. Alliteration–repeating of beginning sounds: “buckets of baseballs; killer choir; ten…
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Tarina from New Zealand and her Cascade Poem
Our first Golden Gloves award goes to Tarina from New Zealand, who, on www.fighttowrite.com TODAY checked out what cascade poems are all about and wrote a GOOD one…TODAY! Here’s her poem, and a link to her site: Golden Gloves Winner TARINA the web finding out everything you ever knew everything you’d been told it was all…