Poetry is compression: the most meaning in the fewest words, with sound doing half the work. These articles cover poetry and what it teaches every other kind of writing about rhythm, precision, and cutting until only the necessary remains.
Creative WritingGhostwriting poetry means channeling someone else's genuine emotion into form that sounds like them. It is the most intimate ghostwriting there is.
Creative WritingWriting poetry well is a craft with real technique underneath the inspiration. Image, sound, compression, and line breaks are tools a poet learns to control.
AprilNational Poetry Month is April. Why writing a single poem, even badly, makes you a sharper prose writer. A non-poet's case for trying the form.
MarchWorld Poetry Day is March 21. An honest take from a prose writer who doesn't love most poetry, on what poetry is for and what every writer can steal from it.
AugustAugust 18 is Bad Poetry Day. Why writing badly on purpose is one of the best exercises a writer can do. Vogons welcome.
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