by Rowan | Feb 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Now that everyone’s familiar with the couplet, let’s take February’s post to the next level. For this month’s poetry slam we’ll be taking everything we learned about writing in tight spaces and applying it to the four-line memoriam...
by Rowan | Jan 1, 2017 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s not the size that matters… It’s whether you start your post with a semi-appropriate joke. Actually, what I did just there is what you’ll be doing this month: wrote a couplet. Although we usually think of couplets as building blocks for...
by Rowan | Dec 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s the little things that matter, as we wind down to the end of the year. Tiny lights on evergreen trees. Tiny candles in their rows. The tiny terminal ‘e’ that differentiates between a ballad and a ballade. That’s right, we’re more or...
by Rowan | Nov 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Echo myth might be one of my least favorite stories of Greek mythology, but it lends its name to one of my new favorite poetry forms. In the myth, the nymph Echo falls in love with the worthless manbaby Narcissus who basically is...
by Rowan | Oct 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
45 is the magic number for this month’s poetry slam. 45 syllables, that is: the 45 syllables, in decreasing lines, of the form known as nonet. I know this is the point where I usually get bogged down in some big long history lesson, but the fact is that there...
by Rowan | Sep 1, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
I know it doesn’t feel like it today, when the Real Feel Index says that I’m sitting in a room that’s literally halfway to the boiling point of water, but summer is winding down and coming to an end. Kids are headed back to school, and for some of us...
