by Rowan | Jan 1, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Welcome to 2020 We’ve been running the poetry slam for, oh my gosh, five years now? That’s five times twelve, minus the critique post, carry the haiku… um… at least fifty different types of poetry. And it occurred to us that we’d spent so...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Well, it’s December again. Like every year, I had the best intentions. I was going to write more. Specifically, I was going to write more poetry. I like what the process of writing poetry does for my brain. It makes me more concise, more richly metaphorical, and...
by Rowan | Nov 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
That doesn’t count How many times have you said that? But counting is one of a poet’s best tools. Even in poetic forms without rhyme or meter, we’re often counting words in a line, lines in a stanza, stanzas in a … you get the picture. The...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
… the five of you who know that the next line is “I knew him, Horatio” not “I knew him well” are feeling pretty smug right now, aren’t you? Laugh while you can, because this month’s poetry slam is no joking matter. Like...
by Christine Hanolsy | Sep 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Poetry is music is poetry It’s kind of a no-brainer, right? Music and poetry go hand in hand: they are both designed to appeal to the emotions. More precisely, a poet or musician is attempting to manipulate your emotions so that you feel what they want you to...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
After July’s longish form, we thought it might be time to take a break in August with a short poetry form called the sevenling. But you’re not off the hook: everything you know about metaphor, connection, and structure is still important. And like...
