Category: poetry
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Special Blogpost for National Poetry Month As you may remember, for my last blogpost I had shared my special Poetry Month trampset column What Do Fiction Writers Do All through Poetry Month? I hope you enjoyed the list, and especially, if you are a fiction writer, I hope you’ve been inspired by item #10 Check…
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Besides, hoping, some day, someone, for sure, will think of uplifting poor fiction writers with something on the same lines. Imagine what a month dedicated to the appreciation of fiction can do. Fiction Month for everyone. Fiction books shoving poetry books to the back shelves in bookstores. Something like a Fiction Foundation on the lines…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Subscribe for monthly craft essays Let me begin this month’s blogpost with a poem. I suppose I am still recovering from Poetry Month’s poet interviews. In case you missed April’s highly inspirational blogpost with interesting anecdotes, useful advice and more, find it here. FORK / Charles Simic (b. 1938)This strange thing must have creptRight out…
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. — Plato We know nothing about poetry. Or we know everything! Hey, isn’t poetry the most natural human response? I oscillate from one response to the other. Two-thirds of my published writing of over 200 pieces, is prose, and yet, my debut chapbook will be a collection…
