Poetry Craft Essays
Poetry Craft Essays
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Epiphanic Poetry—Or, the Art of Short Verse
READ MORE →: Epiphanic Poetry—Or, the Art of Short VerseNote: this article first appeared in the Writers.com Poets Newsletter, and is adapted from an in-person workshop I ran. I have a confession to make. Most of the time, I dislike short poems. I don’t mean short-form poetry. Cinquains and haiku can be…
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Haiku Prompts: Writing Japanese Short-Forms
READ MORE →: Haiku Prompts: Writing Japanese Short-FormsThis poetry prompt focuses on short-form Japanese poems: haiku and its variations. Unlike most of our prompts, which begin with freewrites, I’m going to walk you through a few different ways of approaching the haiku form. I love haiku (whose plural is, by…
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Writing Contemporary Poetry
READ MORE →: Writing Contemporary PoetryIf you write poetry in the year of our lord 2025, you’re a contemporary poet writing contemporary poetry. Congratulations! Now what the hell does that mean? Hindsight makes the study of poetry easy. We can say the Romantics loved nature and the sublime,…
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Agony and Epiphany: The Art of Revising Poetry
READ MORE →: Agony and Epiphany: The Art of Revising PoetryIf you participated in NaPoWriMo, you might have upwards of 30 drafts of new poems. And, if you’re like me: some of them will never see the light of day, some of them were fun experiments, and some of them might actually be…
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