by Rowan | May 29, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”29470″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]The Amazigh (known historically as Berber) people have been around for a long time. Don’t believe me? Check out...
by Rowan | May 1, 2016 | Nonfiction, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tennyson wrote, but really, we all know what tears mean, right? Sadness. So sad. So very very sad. The saddest. Have reached sadception. Pining for the fjords. Something. What we might not know is that “tears”...
by Rowan | May 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help
So who had fun with the bop last month? Didn’t quite get the poem you were hoping for? Want to try it again? Well, we’re upping the difficulty level a little this month with the rondeau. Like the bop, the rondeau is essentially a “song” form of poetry, so I hope...
by Rowan | Apr 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Poetry is basically history, amirite? It’s not, though. As tempting as it is to think that all the poetic forms were invented ages ago by dead people, poetry is very much alive and changing. Last month’s poetry slam here...
by Rowan | Feb 28, 2016 | Fiction|Poetry, Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
If you grew up in the USA, the odds are pretty good that at some point you were required to write a haiku in class. Your teacher probably sat you all down and gave you a little lecture on the history and culture of Japan that may or may not have been accurate at all,...
by Rowan | Feb 1, 2016 | Poetry Slam, Writing Help, YeahWrite
It’s February, and you know what that means: sonnets. Has it really been a year since I wrote that how to write a sonnet post? Whoa. Well, I still don’t want to write it all again, so I suggest you open that little link in a separate window. This year...
