Rhyme schemes help usrelate different parts of the poem. Poets can use the rhyming words for lines across stanzas to tie ideas between them; or to reinforce those ideas each time by use of the rhyme scheme. And refrains kind of do double duty with these concepts. Again, conversely, like ...
Another time, I asked AI to proofread a personal writing project that I didn’t care if their algorithm assimilated it. I can’t recall which free service I used, but it told me that what I pasted in was very well written. (Aww, thanks, AI.) It made a couple of minor suggestions,...
Nope. Was it a good exercise and a good use of writing time, even if it’s not a very good poem? Absolutely! Up Too Late My head is so heavy; my eyes are so sore. I really don’t mean to be boring. I’m terribly tired and wish I could sleep, but what’s keeping me up…...
In-between helping my two kids with their ‘remote-learning’ – which admittedly takes up the majority of my time these days – I’m in the process of working on a new poetry collection with a friend of mine who is one of the most respected folks in the industry, and we’re about ...
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“Blow” and the character, George Jung, was trying to live life to its fullest, which for him meant as a drug dealer….For me, I had always wanted to live a year or more abroad, ever since I had made the mistake of not spending an extended period of time overseas after college. ...
‘What makes Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (public library) so timelessly rewarding and one of the greatest books on writing of all time is that besides her wisdom on the craft, Lamott extends enormous sensitivity to and consolation for the general patholo...
In-between all this, I also managed to sell my parents’ house, which had been a huge time-depleting and emotionally draining project. So yes, I’m looking forward to seeing what 2020 has waiting for me, but I’m pretty proud of everything I’ve accomplished in 2019. ...
Another school I visited recently was in Canaan, VT – waaaaay up near the Canadian border – and the kids had a great (and somewhat sinister) time putting together their poem! School librarian Kaitlin Wood had invited me to visit to celebrate National Poetry Month and Poem in your Pocket ...
Here, our two kids started off the school year doing remote schooling, but between computer glitches, hard-to-find links, and an inordinate amount of unhealthy screen time (3 hours for school doesn’t allow for any TV or game time), it was just not working out. ...