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The study, art, and appreciation of poetry.

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The Moment as Poetry

How a borrowed ladder can be elevated in poetry.… Read More The Moment as Poetry

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 LoriLeave a comment

Writing Prompts: Find Your Phrases

I’ve been working from a cheat sheet of sorts — Bernadette Mayer’s List of Journal Ideas — to create some of my poems. The neat thing about such a list is you can choose one of the many ideas and create not one, but many poems or writings from it. Plus, it gets you thinking… Read More Writing Prompts: Find Your Phrases

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 LoriLeave a comment

Poetry Prompts: Start with a Word

The thing I love most about writing poetry is the ability to form something from a single word. Not that fiction or nonfiction doesn’t offer that same opportunity, but there’s something about taking a word, rolling it around in your mind, spilling it onto the paper, and drawing your own bias of what that word… Read More Poetry Prompts: Start with a Word

August 8, 2014 LoriLeave a comment

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