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30 Poems in 30 Days Project
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Why you should write poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Yourself
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Issues
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry of Place
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Persona Poems
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Developing Your Voice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About Forms and Lists
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Elegies and Memories
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Brief Glossary of Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Good the Bad and the Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Courting Controversy
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Syllabic Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: What is Your Writing Process?
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Repetition
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Imagism
- 30 poems in 30 Days: Review Your Old Work
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Constraint as a Tool
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Joining the Community
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About the Line
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Staying Positive
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Progression
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Breaking the Rules
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Confessional Poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Say What You Want to Say
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Contests
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Free Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Finding New Ways To Stay Inspired
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Word Choice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Little Advice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Collaboration
Poetry Forms and Terms
- What is a Stanza?
- What is an Allegory?
- Rhythm and Stress
- Tercet and Triad
- Epistle
- Cinquain
- Doublets, Cinquains and Adelaide Crapsey
Expression
General Articles
- Four Ways to Publish Your Poetry
- Avoiding Poetry Contest Scams
- Wronging Writers: Don’t Get Taken
- Poetry Dot Shaft
- Bukowski
- Poetry Writing Tips
- Poetry Tips Explained
- A poem with Love in the title (or Destiny, Hate, or other HUGE themes) already has two strikes against it (and I like love poems).
- The bigger your point, the more important the details are.
- Say what you want to say and let your readers decide what it means.
- Feel free to write a bad poem.
- Develop your voice. Get comfortable with how you write.
- Don’t explain everything.
- Untitled poems are lazy. They’re like unnamed children. Obviously their parent doesn’t care about them.
- People will remember an image long after they’ve forgotten why it was there.
- That one perfect line in a thirty line poem may be what makes it all worthwhile, or it may be what makes the rest of the poem bad. Keep an eye on it.
- There are many excuses not to write. Try using writing as an excuse not to do other things.
- The more you read, the more you learn. The more you write, the more you develop.
