Category: Poetry
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For most of my writing life, my poetry has been free verse. It seems to go well with my style, which often has a conversational tone. In my poetry workshop class in college, I’d had to try some forms, including the obligatory sestina. It wasn’t my favorite experience. More recently, I’ve tried a couple of…
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Writing poetry can serve many purposes. I group them into two main categories: purging and crafting. Both are useful and worthwhile. Sometimes when I meet new people, it comes up in conversation that I write poetry. The odds are good that the other person will say “I’ve written some poems” or “I wrote some poetry…
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I’ve written poetry since I was a kid (with a couple of gaps). Originally, A weird a mix of Mother Goose and Edgar Allan Poe inspired me. In high school, I mostly wrote teenage angst. In college, I learned forms, the value of reading out loud, and tried to figure out who I would be…