I've never done one of these kinds of posts before, so bear with me here, homedogs. So, I've got a lot of poetry reading to-do and done lately, and I thought it'd be nice to accumulate all my reads into one spot. I mean, basically, all I read is poetry and magazines. (I suck at …
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Are my poetry juices running out?!?!?!
Uh oh. So, lately I've been noticing something in my writing habits. ... I'M NOT WRITING POEMS ANYMORE. I mean, I feel like this should be a bad thing... right? I was going so strong with it for so long, and I was learning so much from my writing both about myself and poetry itself. …
Perfection: Poems vs. Stories
Here's something to think a bit about. The words of your poems are perfect before you physically write them; those of your stories are perfected after they've been written. Yes, I came up with that... haha. But, seriously, think about it. When you decide to sit down and write a poem (or rather don't decide …