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How to Improve your Rhyming Poetry Writing
Poetry Guide Series
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How to Improve your Rhyming Poetry Writing
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That Which Never Returns
Sadness and loss
Jul 11
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That Which Never Returns
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Our Appetite for Poetic Misery: What Our Love of Sad Poems Says About Us
We spend our lives avoiding grief and heartbreak, yet we actively seek it out on the page. Are we all just masochists?
Jul 10
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Our Appetite for Poetic Misery: What Our Love of Sad Poems Says About Us
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The Sylvia Plath Prerequisite: Do You Need a Tragic Backstory to Be a Great Poet?
Congratulations on the well-adjusted upbringing. You've just failed the first test of poetic greatness. Or have you?
Jul 9
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The Sylvia Plath Prerequisite: Do You Need a Tragic Backstory to Be a Great Poet?
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Is a Poetry Course Worth the Cash?
Can you really buy a poet's soul in six easy installments?
Jul 8
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Is a Poetry Course Worth the Cash?
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Ghost of Summer
Gray-brown bark like dragon scales woodland’s earthy mossy trails leaves that drizzle autumn sun to dapple grasses newly spun I see you leaning by a…
Jul 7
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How to Write Poetry: Guidance from the Legendary Mary Oliver
In this edition, we turn to the enduring wisdom of a highly respected modern poet, Mary Oliver, to extract practical advice for those dedicated to…
Jul 3
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How to Write Poetry: Guidance from the Legendary Mary Oliver
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FREE VERSE ISN'T FREE LICENSE TO WRITE GARBAGE
Why breaking lines randomly doesn't make you e.e. cummings
Jul 1
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FREE VERSE ISN'T FREE LICENSE TO WRITE GARBAGE
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Grief is Mine
I plucked a crimson rose that lay in shreds of pain to hide the ashen gloom. The future holds the counted years, no resurrection for the old. That cloth…
Jul 1
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Grief is Mine
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June 2025
POETRY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: TURN YOUR EVERYDAY 'BLAH' INTO POETIC 'AHA!'
Why your boring life is actually a goldmine of poetic material
Jun 27
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POETRY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: TURN YOUR EVERYDAY 'BLAH' INTO POETIC 'AHA!'
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Will We Ever Be The Same Again
Before a chilled pane, frosted by the crackled hoar of staccato chatter, inane and unintelligible in this leaden atmosphere, I stand and wait, detached…
Jun 25
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Will We Ever Be The Same Again
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IMAGE MAGIC: MAKE READERS GASP WITH UNEXPECTED (BUT PERFECT!) CONNECTIONS
How to create imagery that surprises without being random
Jun 24
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IMAGE MAGIC: MAKE READERS GASP WITH UNEXPECTED (BUT PERFECT!) CONNECTIONS
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