21Jul 2019 by admin

Poetry Styles You Already Write In

Exercises, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "What differs between prose and poetry is the way in which the poem sings. It’ll feel like a poem. That means there will be something underneath the narrative."  - dimitrireyespoet.com If you’ve written any poem, chances are you’ve either “written into” or “wrote aside” one of these 5 types of poems below. When I started being a student of poetry I began to realize that though I didn’t know what I was necessarily doing, whatever I was writing was a poem that fit into a certain framework. This blog is a confidence booster for anyone who has written at least a few poems. And as a reminder, as long as you tell yourself that you are a writer and you practice writing, you’ll always be improving. Appreciate your…
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05Jul 2019 by admin

Revising Poetry: The Purpose Triangle

Tips, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "If you’ve considered the general purpose, audience’s purpose, and the speaker’s purpose, I promise you that your poem will immediately become cohesive. You may even want to try this hack with a poem you are stuck on."  - dimitrireyespoet.com A lot of the writing process could and should be with revising and editing. These are the stages where your poem can change dramatically and truly become something cohesive. There are many ways in which people decide to edit and while some take the more natural approach poem to poem, some form a methodology— steps to the editing process that the poet does poem to poem. Whether you are a Type A or Type B personality, the editing should always revolve around the purpose of your poem. Therefore,…
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03Jul 2019 by admin

5 Reasons to Title a Poem

Tips, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "One can be tooling over the mechanics of a great poem then throw it away with a generic or safe title... the title is another way to add a certain depth and complexity to the piece. It can be the bearings for your readers or it can lead them astray."  - dimitrireyespoet.com Titles are the first impression of poems because this is usually what jumps out at your readers. For one, the title usually looks different in size or line weight. It is also most likely on it’s own line, creating its own distance from the rest of the poem. Even so, with beginner poets, titles can be one of the most overlooked things in the poem. One can be tooling over the mechanics of a…
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21Jun 2019 by admin

Be The Speaker, Not The Writer

Tips, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "The entity in the poem solely exists on the page and through performance. It can contain pieces of us or others in our lives, but “the speaker” is an interpretation.."  - dimitrireyespoet.com A common mistake I find in writing communities (even those that have been practicing for awhile) is when people talk about the poem and they address the voice in the poem as “the poet” or “the writer.” This is to be avoided. The entity voicing their observations are having thoughts that are obviously created by the writer, but the one who pens the poem also has the poetic license to create and change the story. Therefore analyzing the poem as if the character is speaking solely about themselves is a false analysis and isn’t the…
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18Jun 2019 by admin

2 Poetry Hacks to Make Your Words Better

Tips, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "The most pleasurable moments in verse are when emotions and occurrences calculate themselves on the basis of how we can stretch a description."  - dimitrireyespoet.comSo you’ve written your poem and now is the time to reread it. There’s work to do, but you know the heart of the poem is in there, somewhere.You edit your work line by line, checking for grammar mistakes, while also considering your overall tone, metaphor, and analogy. Lines are getting added in while phrases are getting cut out, and finally you notice something— you’ve just used a particular word 3 times in 3 lines! This can be a frustrating experience with writers, as we find ourselves toying over the exact words to represent our art and the repetition of certain words can…
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01Apr 2019 by admin

31 IDEAS for National Poetry Month 2019

Exercises, Professionalism, Tips, Uncategorized, Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest National Poetry Month is lovingly called #NaPoMo by most poets. It's when the poetry community gets the most love by colleges, schools, art institutions, and other writers. It's the celebration of poetry as something healing, enigmatic, all-encompassing, and omnipresent.   Here are 31 ways in which you can be a part of National Poetry Month this April! 1. Watch My YouTube Channel You can find videos on poetry basics, tips, exercises, performances, vlogs, and artist interviews. 2. Read the U.S Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith is the current U.S Poet Laureate. You can also check out poet laureate’s from across the United States, as some states have their own laureate. 3. Support Poetry Podcasts Podcasts are more popular than ever. Many poets and organizations have great conversations on…
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24Mar 2019 by admin

How to Make Time for Poetry

Writing Process
Instagram Facebook Youtube Pinterest "For this half an hour, time could stop and should feel as if for the first time, you are in control of it’s manipulation."  - dimitrireyespoet.com In poetry circles, the question of how poets make time for their poetry often gets thrown around. Whether I hear it in a workshop, panel, or q&a session after a reading, the response is always somewhere around, “You simply have to make time for it.” So you’re working and you’re in college. You have a family and you have friends. You have a place to clean, you have places to go, and you have a life to live. So tell me, where do you find a time to write all of your awesome poems? All artists have to find a schedule…
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