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Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Pregunta

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The  pregunta  (pronounced pre-goon-tuh) is a Spanish poetic form that is a type of argument between two poets. It consists of alternating ...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Shadorma

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The  shadorma  is a Spanish poetic form consisting of six lines (a sestet) written in syllabic form. The syllable count is 3/5/3/3/7/5. A s...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Poetry Friday - The Poetry of Bad Weather

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Since it's February and we've had a few snow days already, I wanted a poem on the winter doldrums or snow. However, I came across th...
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Nonfiction 10 for 10 - Recommendations from a Teenage Boy

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How could I possibly pick the 10 nonfiction books I can't live without? Frankly, it's an impossible task for me. I use children...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Quintilla

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The quintilla is a Spanish form consisting of a five-line stanza. Normally the lines contain 8 syllables and have only two rhyming sounds. ...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

Poetry Friday - From The Temple of Nature

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In honor of Charles Darwin's birthday today, I'm sharing an excerpt from a book written by his grandfather. From The Temple of Nat...
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Monday, February 08, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Trine

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The trine (prounounced treen) is a French Poetic form consisting of three rhyming couplets and a triplet. There is no fixed meter or syllab...
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Friday, February 05, 2016

Poetry Friday - Welcome Mat Is Out!

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Welcome poetry lovers! I'm happy to be hosting Poetry Friday this week. I'm especially thrilled to be hosting on a day when the Poet...
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Thursday, February 04, 2016

PF Early Birds!

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My post for tomorrow will go live at 12:00 am and not one second sooner. (I mean, that IS when Friday begins, right?) For all you Left coa...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Ideograms

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This in one of my favorite May Swenson poems, second only to  Analysis of Baseball . Cardinal Ideograms by May Swenson 0     A mouth....
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - English Quintet

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The English Quintet is composed of any number of 5-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme ababb cdcdd, etc. The number of syllables may vary and...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Remembering Francisco Alarcón

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I was saddened to hear of the death of Francisco Alarcón last week. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for one of my National Poetry Mon...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

Poetry Friday - Sandburg's Snow

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Schools here are closed for a preemptive snow day. It doesn't look bad yet, but we are hunkered down for the weekend and hoping we don...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Prefix Poem

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Long ago I read a post at the blog  How A Poem Happens . In it, poet  Idra   Novey  shared her poem Trans  and described its creation. In t...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Rime Couée

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The rime couée is a French poetic form, written as an number of sestets. The poem begins with an eight syllable rhyming couplet, followed b...
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Friday, January 08, 2016

Poetry Friday Post Two - Crown Sonnet Concluded

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Welcome back! If you haven't been following the crown or have come here directly from the Poetry Friday roundup, do jump over to Laura ...
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Poetry Friday Post 1 - Crown Sonnet Second Poem

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My poetry sisters and I are wrapping up our year of writing with a crown sonnet. This particular project holds a special place in my heart ...
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Monday, January 04, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Iroha Mojigusari

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Iroha mojigusari is a Japanese form of an abecedarian poem. Here's how it is defined in A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch. The ...
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