What about an AUBADE?
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What about an AUBADE? It is a “dawn poem” that is set at sunrise – and usually, it is about the parting of lovers. One of the best known aubades is in Shakespeare’s...
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Try writing a Sonnet. How about a Shakespearean Sonnet?
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Try writing a Sonnet. How about a Shakespearean Sonnet? Let us speak here of Vivian Smallwood whose book, And Finding No Mouse There was published by Negative Capability Press in 1983. I say confidently that Vivian Smallwood...
Read MoreThe American Sentence
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It’s just plain easy to write one sentence, yes? That’s all we have to do, isn’t it? Write one sentence and then another and yet another – and we have a prose poem, a short story, a novel...
Read MoreApril is the month to write Anaphora.
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April is the month to write Anaphora. Anaphora is the repetition of a particular word or phrase. Allen Ginsberg used anaphora and also Walt Whitman...
Read MoreRemember that first kiss? Write About it.
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Remember that first kiss? Write about it. Here’s a free-verse poem by Jack Bedell who is a professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he edits Louisiana Literature, one of the best journals in the South...
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