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Meeting the Bar: Erasure Poetry
Vince Gotera, poet and writer, best known as Editor of the North American Review introduced me to Erasure Poetry in a prompt he posted right after National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). You can...
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Meeting the Bar: Postmodern (Experimental)
Femme au peignoir japonais 1907 Emilie Charmy (courtesy of http://www.emiliecharmy.org) Welcome poets, I’m sandwiched in between two major holidays with this prompt so first let me say a special thank...
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Meeting the Bar: Creativity
Corpus callosum (digital art by Anna Montgomery) ‘Why should we all use our creative power …? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold, and compassionate, so...
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Meeting the Bar: Graffiti Poetry
Created by Anna Montgomery According to Wikipedia, the word on the street of the internet, ‘graffiti is writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other...
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Meeting the Bar: Negative Capability
Mary Oliver in A Poetry Handbook introduces the reader to a vital aspect of craft, Negative Capability. The Poetry Foundation describes Negative Capability as ‘a theory of John Keats, who suggested in...
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Meeting the Bar: The Unfathomable
Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895 (public domain) “Catastrophe is indeed already the condition of language, the condition of the ruins of time.” Harold Bloom In the midst of catastrophe we can become...
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Meeting the Bar: Volition & Velleity
‘Art does not seek to describe but to enact.’ Charles Olson Welcome poets, today we’ll delve into one of underpinnings in the art of poetry, specifically, the role of volition and velleity. Volition is...
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Meeting the Bar: Atmosphere
Welcome poets and Happy Independence Day to those of you from the United States. For today’s Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft we will be reviewing atmosphere, also sometimes referred to as mood....
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Meeting the Bar: Wild Beasts
It’s All Hallows Eve here in the US and to celebrate I thought we might indulge our wild sides. We’ll set our work ablaze, creating a bonfire that we might otherwise caution ourselves against. Entering...
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Meeting the Bar: Conceit
Garden of the Gods, Anna Chamberlain For those of you in the US and abroad that celebrate Thanksgiving I wish you a warm and happy holiday with your loved ones. I will be baking a nontraditional feast...
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MTB: Systematically Derange the Language
Systematically Derange the Language (for Bernadette Mayer) by Anna Creativity is a skill that can be refined through experimentation. By encountering the ideas of others or breaking out of our routine...
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Meeting the Bar: Diaphanous Diction
Magnolia by Anna As a logophile sometimes I come across a word and fall hopelessly in love with it. Something about the sound, the silky flow, the cognitive joy, and semantic resonance that sparks my...
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