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December 18, 2022 Writing prompts & inspiration for poems

15 wild poetry forms for writing inspiration

As an invitation for you to give them a chance — as a reader and/or writer — I thought I’d share examples of inventive poetry forms, along with some of what I’ve learned by digging into these wild, wonderful poems.

a man pretending to recoil from a creature painted on brick wall. it's part chicken, part T-rex and 3 or 4 times his size. the image is used in a blog post about letting go of ambition and writing for pleasure again
December 11, 2022 Writing about writing

what comes after ambition

I’ve embraced productivity as a synonym for success for so long that it’s hard now to accept my desire for something else in its place.

writing update with kayaking trip
September 5, 2022 Writing about writing

poets were not meant to portage

The boats are heavy. My hands are soft. The portage “saves us” from a series of rapids and falls but is so taxing I joke that, next time, I’m just going for it.

August 19, 2022 Writing about writing

what does success even look like?

I took the summer off, almost entirely, from any of the familiar measures of writing productivity. Here’s what I did instead.

list poem examples
March 18, 2022 Writing prompts & inspiration for poems

50+ list poems for writing inspiration

MORE THAN 50 LIST POEMS / I love reading list poems. I love writing them. And when it comes to getting poem drafts started quickly (a big help when doing poem-a-day challenges), they’re lifesavers.

the pedestrians by rachel zucker
March 7, 2021 I was just thinking / Writing Goals

“no word in her language”

How does Zucker convey such emotion while deploying such sparse, well, emotion? In portraying the flatness of love (habitual) and life (deflated), how does she gut us like she does?

poetry goals for 2021
January 12, 2021 Writing about writing / Writing Goals

on showing up and setting poetry goals

My no nonsense poetry goals for 2021 and a short think on the ways we decide Who We Are by where we put our energy.

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