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Friday, January 26, 2024

Poetry Sisters Write Ekphrastic Poems

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Hello, and welcome to the first poetry sisters' exercise of 2024! This month the challenge was to write a poem to an image chosen from t...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write Elfchen

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The challenge this month was to write an elfchen. An elfchen is described as a "German cinquain" poem. Instead of using syllables...
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Friday, November 24, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write "In the Style Of" Valerie Worth

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The challenge this month was to write "in the style of" Valerie Worth. You can learn more about Valerie Worth and read some of her...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2023

A Cento Challenge

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This month Every Day Poems  offered up a challenge to "craft a Cento from some of your favorite Every Day Poems lines." They also ...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write Bouts-rimés

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The challenge this month was to write in the form of bouts-rimés . In The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms , Ron Padgett desc...
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write Diminishing Verse

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The challenge this month was to write in the form of diminishing verse. You can learn more about this form at  Writer's Digest . You can...
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Friday, August 25, 2023

Poetry Sisters Play with an Exquisite Corpse

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This month's challenge was writing a poem from the lines generated as we played with an exquisite corpse . Here's what Wikipedia has...
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Friday, July 28, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write Monotetra Poems

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The challenge this month was to write a poem in the form of  monotetra . You can learn more about it at  Writer's Digest . I believe I s...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write to a Quote

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The challenge this month was to write a poem in response to a quote. Initially, I thought we would be writing to the same quote, but several...
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Friday, June 02, 2023

Poetry Friday is Here!

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Hello All! I'm so happy to be hosting Poetry Friday.  I have spent the last few months preparing to move out of the building I have spen...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write Ghazals

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The challenge this month was to write in the form of the ghazal . You can learn more about  this form here . This is a fairly restrictive fo...
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Friday, April 28, 2023

Poetry Sisters Write in the Style of Neruda

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This month's challenge was to write in the style of Neruda. Oh boy. I haven't read much Neruda, so finding a poem as a mentor text w...
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Friday, April 14, 2023

NPM 2023 - Poem 14

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My poem for Day 14 of National Poetry Month is written to the illustration Sowing and Reaping in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,...
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Thursday, April 13, 2023

NPM 2023 - Poem 13

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My poem for Day 13 of National Poetry Month is written to the photograph  The Johnstown calamity. A slightly damaged house. Pennsylvania Joh...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

NPM 2023 - Poem 12

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My poem for Day 12 of National Poetry Month is written to Henry Bacon’s Competition Proposal for a Monument to Abraham Lincoln (1912) . neoc...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

NPM 2023 - Poem 11

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My poem for Day 11 of National Poetry Month is written to Pigeon Message from Major Whittlesey to the Commanding Officer of the 308th Infant...