Write After Reading: Writing the Life Poetic has been a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It has alternated between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. We’ve had an absolute blast reading chapters together and finally doing some of the exercises! It’s been really great for me to see the various ways we all respond to […]

It’s Wednesday again, time for Write After Reading!Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Last week, we did Chapter 63: Taking Shape, Experimenting with Poetic Forms at Susan’s blog. Zip over there and take a read if you missed it. This week, […]

It’s Wednesday again, time for Write After Reading!Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Last week, we did Chapter 58: Writing the Zeitgeist right here with some interesting results. This week, Susan is doing Chapter 63: Taking Shape, Experimenting […]

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Susan led last week’s episode, and we did a very cool exercise of writing poems to given titles. Terrific results! This week, we’re doing Chapter 58: Writing the Zeitgeist. Here’s where I […]

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. I led last week’s exercise and Susan has the baton this week! We’re doing Chapter 48: Writing Poems from Titles. I can’t wait to give this a try! Please come join us!

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Susan led last week’s discussion, which included  a really cool Mad Lib exercise.  This week, we’ll be talking about  Chapter 43: I’m So Adjective, I Verb Nouns: On Word Choice. I get into […]

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Susan has this week’s post up, so I’ll see you over there! This week’s exercise, a take on Mad Libs, looks extra fun–can’t wait to see what we all do with it. […]

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Susan hosted about Small Stones in  this week’s post,  and here we’re talking this week about Chapter 29: Making Music: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Repetition. Song lyrics are some of my favorite poems, […]

Write After Reading: Living the Life Poetic is a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It alternates between my blog and Susan Taylor Brown’s blog. Susan has this week’s post up, so I’ll see you over there! Also, for next week, please be thinking of a song you love, one whose lyrics really have a lot of […]