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Lately, I haven’t been much living in the land of poetry. I met my sometime-to-be ex-husband at a poetry open mic. I earned a Master’s in Fine Arts Degree in poetry, performed and competed in poetry slams for years, have more friends that are poets than maybe anything else. My favorite definition of “revision” is “to see again.” You are likely to envision the poem, over and over again, maybe with broad changes or simple tweaks, in the process of turning a freewrite or draft into a crafted work. Once you’ve used 10 Easy Tips to Revise Your Poems to make a first pass [...] Check out my essay, “How Did I Get Roped Into This?” in Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, available this month from All Things That Matter Press. This will make a great Christmas present for those beautiful strong women (or men) in your life. And for you professors, this exciting nonfiction anthology addresses women’s issues [...] This week’s guest post in the Writing After Kids Series is by Andre Jackson, the father of four very intelligent children. He is also a twenty-year Active Duty Navy Veteran and finally a reader that loves to write and occasionally perform. He and I worked together for the 2007 National Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas. He was tireless, cheerful, [...] So you’ve got a lot of poems to edit and you don’t even know where to begin? I can help. Whether you’ve composed many poems in a short period, like I just did for the Nov PAD Chapbook Challenge, or you’ve got a stack of poems that you’ve been writing for years but never get [...] I still want to tell the truth as I know it. And I want to protect the feelings of my sons. I thought if I waited long enough, I could find that sweet spot where I could write honestly without hurting or embarrassing my sons. It doesn’t exist. Knowing that this piece will be posted online, I consider using a pseudonym to staunch the damage. Instead, I don’t mention my sons’ names and I refer to my ex as “L” – all very cryptic but probably pointless. I’ve spent this past month writing a poem a day for the 2009 November PAD Chapbook Challenge. The way it works is that Robert Lee Brewer posts a prompt on the Writer’s Digest blog every day i.e. “Pick a number, make that number the title of your poem, and write a poem” or “Write [...] The following article is a guest post on Writing After Kids is from my longtime friend, Estelle Marchasin. She is a stay-at-home mother of two, and wife to one. She is developing her novel, The Lost Angels, with the help of published author and poet, Sharon Darrow. She currently lives in New Jersey, but Taos, [...] It’s been a long time since a book on writing has inspired me to copy long passages, but Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles makes me want to hang quotes up on my wall just so I can be reminded that all the reasons I [...] I’ve got a lot of friends doing NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month. I’ll join them next year. This year, I’m going for the poetry. My friend Pamela wrote about her Challenge Prep for the November PAD Chapbook Challenge and I figure I need to get back on the poetry horse sometime. Why [...] |
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