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Showing posts with label poetry 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry 7. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Poetry Friday is Here!

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Hello poetry friends! I am happy to host the round-up on this last Friday of the month and on a day when my poetry sisters and I have writte...
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Friday, May 29, 2026

Poetry Potluck With My Poetry Sisters

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This month, we are serving up a poetry potluck, an idea shared by Tanita, since we didn't have a plan for May. Sara then chimed in and s...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

Poetry Sisters Write Ekphrastic Poems

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This month's challenge was to write a poem to a photograph. Simple enough, right? Usually, we share images and select from a common offe...
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Friday, March 27, 2026

Poetry Sisters Unravel the Ovillejo

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 Tanita set this month's challenge to write an ovillejo . Here's a bit of information about this form: "…the “ovillejo,” an old...
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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Poetry Sisters Write to an Arthur Sze Poem

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This month's challenge was to write a poem inspired by or in conversation with one by our current  U.S. Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze . I ha...
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Friday, January 30, 2026

Poetry Sisters Write TriCubes

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Phillip Larrea is an American poet and syndicated columnist. He invented a poetic form he calls TriCubes.  Tricubes  are poems composed of t...
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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Poetry Friday is Here!

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No matter which holiday you are celebrating this season, I wish you peace and light. I am happy to host this last Poetry Friday of the year ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Poetry Sisters Tackle the Burning Haibun

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This month, the poetry sisters faced the challenge of the burning haibun. A burning haibun is composed of at least three parts—a prose poem...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Poetry Sisters Write Tritina

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This month's challenge was to write in the form of the tritina . The tritina is composed of 3 tercets and a final line (envoi) that stan...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Poetry Sisters Talk Back to a Poem

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This month, our challenge was to talk back to a poem, specifically the poem  "Talk to Me Poem, I Think I Got the Blues" by Nikki ...
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Friday, July 25, 2025

Poetry Sisters Write Sedoka

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The challenge this month was to write sedoka. The sedoka is a Japanese poetic form that is an unrhymed poem made from a pair of katuata. A ...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Poetry Sisters Write Raccontinos

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This month the challenge was to write a raccontino. The first time I saw this form was in the Helen Frost verse novel Spinning Through the U...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

Poetry Sisters Writen Golden Shovels

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Hello Poetry Friday friends! I took the month of May off (mostly) after posting daily for National Poetry Month. If you didn't see my po...
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Friday, April 25, 2025

NPM 2025 - Poem 25

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For National Poetry Month this year, I am writing poems in uncommon, unusual, or inventive poetic forms. I'm deviating a bit from that t...
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Poetry Sisters Write In the Style of Lucille Clifton

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This month the challenge was to write a poem inspired by  four Lucille Clifton notes to Clark Kent . Our theme for the year is "in conv...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Poetry Sisters Write Wordplay Poems

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The challenge this month was to write a wordplay poem. This challenge is based on one offered up by Nikki Grimes in May 2015 at  Today's...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Haibun and/or Haiga

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For the last month of the year, the challenge was to write a haibun or haiga.  The  haibun  is is a poetic form first created by Matsuo Bash...
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