Read Write Poem

by Deb Scott This week uses words offered by Barbara, Nicole, Marian V., Mark S. and Rallentanda To write to this prompt, pick as many (or few) of these words as you want and write a poem using them. (And if these words don’t suit you, pick your own. Just write a poem,...

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Ren Powell has just posted her take on Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at More Babel. And, in case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook and then Lawrence Gladeview...

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by the Read Write Poem Staff Did Zachary Schomburg’s amazing prompt help you create something completely new this week? Was it inspiring, frightening, freeing or complicating? All of the above? None of the above? Along with your links (or your poem), you might want to say a little something about how the...

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“Beginning April 1, Poets.org sends one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month. The poems have been selected from new books published in the spring.” Sign up here....

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by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 Sometimes beginning writers tell me they get discouraged because it seems that everything has already been written about. But every experience, however commonplace, is unique to he or she who seizes it. There have undoubtedly been many poems about how dandelions pass from yellow...

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Lawrence Gladeview has posted his thoughts about Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at  Righteous Rightings. In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook. You can find information about the chapbook and ...

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by Robert Peake Ask a poet a question, get a flurry of questions in reply. At least, that’s what my mind did when I read this month’s question “How do you write poetry every day?” I came up with more questions, such as: How do you not write poetry every day? How do...

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by Nathan Moore How long have you been writing poetry? I started writing as a child. There are still several wrinkled scribbles on lined paper around here somewhere from those days. By the time I was 12 or so, I actually attempted to write poems that others would enjoy reading....

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Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker challenged 100 poets to note the political climate of each of President Obama’s first days in office. The blogged poems have been anthologized in a work called Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, which will be released in April (ahem, National Poetry...

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by Zachary Schomburg Zachary Schomburg setting off a few sparks The spark that happens from these two unrelated tropes will be the heart of this poem.   One of the tenets of surrealism from Andre Breton’s Le Manifeste du Surréalisme is the concept of manufacturing a “spark” set off by touching together two images/words...

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Catherine Fitchett is one of our hosts on the (virtual) book tour of Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find out what she has to say at Poetry Chook. In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. You can find information about the...

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by the Read Write Poem Staff How did last week’s image prompt inspire you? Did you write to it, or something else? (It’s okay if you didn’t write to prompt. We’re just glad you are here, reading and writing poetry.) Be sure to come back tomorrow for another prompt (it’s our celebrity...

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You might know we’re planning another prompt-every-day for those who love (or who have a love-hate relationship with)  daily poem-writing in April (which is National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing a poem every day in April, too, so it is...

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by Carolee Sherwood and Jill Crammond Wickham If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, stomp your feet. If you’re planning on doing NaPoWriMo (writing a poem each day in April), jump up and down. Are you jumping up and down? At least...

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by Nathan Moore Aries March 20 — April 19 If you leave the house with an industrial magnet hidden under your hat this week, you could lose your footing when the bus arrives. The fates are sending you messages on street signs. If the “Don’t Walk” sign flashes your name in Morse...

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We start out our (virtual) book tour of Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist,” with Donna Vorreyer at her blog. You can find  information about the chapbook and  tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it online. If you would like to get on the tour host schedule, join...

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by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 In this fascinating poem by the California poet, Jane Hirshfield, the speaker discovers that through paying attention to an event she has become part of it, has indeed become inseparable from the event and its implications. This is more than an act of empathy....

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James Engelhardt over at the Prairie Schooner blog responds to Patrick Gillespie’s “Let Poetry Die” article : “I want to assure Gillespie and others that poetry—even outside the academy—seems to be doing well. At least, if the number of books, presses, online spaces, slams, and zines is an indicator.” Read both. What...

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Hello! We’re looking for a couple more people to join in April’s Virtual Book Tour, which will feature January Gill O’Neil’s Underlife. Find out how the tour works by looking here. Email your interest (or questions) to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org or message Deb Scott directly....

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The 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival got funding for 2010 and will take place Oct 7-10. Make your plans to go to Newark, New Jersey! “The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is neither an academic symposium nor a writing conference. Through a wide range of poetry readings, storytelling sessions, and...

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