by Rowan | Dec 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
How long was this year, anyway? There is a little cluster of memes going around this internet – maybe you’ve seen one – about how 2018 is the year where linear time stopped making any sense. For example, Black Panther came out this year, but like,...
by Rowan | Nov 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s my birthday and I’ll poem if I want to. Um, and you can join me if you want to. November is one of my favorite months, for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons. But this year it’s even more favoriter (I can make up words if I want, too) because...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Raise your hand if you had fun with last month’s poetry slam, the Golden Shovel. For me, part of the fun was going through other people’s poetry, looking for those perfect lines that spoke to me, and then figuring out how I could speak through them. When...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
This month’s writing prompts are all about opening lines, but I’m still on my terminal words kick. Tritinas, diminishing poems, what’s an editor in need of a poetry slam to do? Our September poetry slam takes a page out of Terrance Hayes’ book...
by Rowan | Aug 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Last month we held onto our burdens; this month let’s lighten them a little with diminishing verse. Ordinarily I’d put a big ol’ explanation of where diminishing verse comes from right here, but honestly there really isn’t one. It’s just...
by Rowan | Jul 1, 2018 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s music to my ears How often have you heard that? Especially in reference to poetry? Well, poetry and music are pretty closely related. We’ll discover how closely in this month’s slam, when you write a poem-within-a-poem using a few rules cribbed...
