Epistolary (Letter) Poem
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Write a poem that is in the form of a letter to a person from your past, a person from history, or a place. As you revise the poem, examine the poem's structure...
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On Writing Similes and Metaphors
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A Simile is a form of comparison using "as" – or "like." "My love is like a red, red rose." Are you keeping a Writer's Notebook? Try writing 10 similes. (Sort-of looks like "smiles, doesn't it?)
Read MoreWhat 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...
Read MoreTry 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...
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