When I write poetry, I use words as others utilize algebraic indicators: with rigor, with caution, and with the accuracy of the craftsmen. I sculpt in words. I quit. I turn my head. I pay attention to the echoes and the tables of emotional vibration, as well as the fine-tuned reverberations of discomfort, love, and concern. Air waves and sounded responded to by the body chemicals of my audiences and my readers.

I understand elegance. I have actually constantly recognized it in the biblical sense, it was my enthusiastic mistress. We made love. We procreated the children of my messages. I determined its looks admiringly. This is the math of sentence structure. It is merely the geometry of syntax. Continue reading The Creative Art of Writing Poetry: A Guide for Beginners and Will-be Poets

National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) is a yearly event where poets put effort into writing a poem every day for the month of April.

This site is owned and run by Maureen Thorson, a Washington, D.C. poet. Influenced by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), in 2003, she started composing a poem a day during April and putting them on her blog. Soon, other individuals began composing poems for the month of April, and putting them on their personal blogs as well. Maureen linked to them to her blog. After a couple of years, numerous individuals were doing the same thing that Maureen chose to release an independent internet site for the task. Continue reading What is National Poetry Writing Month?