Learn how to use white space to add emphasis, dimension, and emotion to your poetry.
How to Write a Poem Using Empty Space
Use my writing prompt to write a haiku-a-day for National Poetry Month. Read my own haiku for inspiration and ideas. An explanation of my haiku will also be offered. Today's prompt is LIVE.
Haiku-a-Day Prompts and Examples for National Poetry Month, Today: Live
Some tips on how to make your writing more powerful in revisions.
Powerful Words Make Powerful Prose
Writing poetry is fun. Acrostic poems are a form of puzzle in which a word is spelled out by a letter in each line. Try it for yourself; you may be a poet and not yet know it!
How to Write an Acrostic Poem: Word Puzzle Poetry
This article aims to teach you how to select the right word for the right line in your poems by analyzing the use of phonemes in "Sappho 31" and Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm only Bleeding)."
Phonemes: The Building Blocks of Lyric Poetry
This article provides a brief overview of lyrical poetry including the history of the lyric poem and a summary of the most common lyrical poetry forms. It also provides options for writing lyric poems along with specific suggestions and quick tips to make the process successful.
How to Write Lyric Poetry
Seeking poetic inspiration can be frustrating, but here are a 10 places to look with a few tips.
10 Places to Find Poetic Inspiration
Discover how to write your own villanelle—a fixed-verse form of poetry that's both challenging and fun!
Rhyming Poetry: How to Write a Villanelle
Beginning poets should be required to take a vow equivalent of the medical "Hippocratic Oath." If poets could be held to a standard of excellence, less doggerel would plague the literary world.
An Orphic Oath: Establishing a Standard of Excellence for Aspiring Poets
Use this simple formula to write a haiku on any subject that will stand out from the crowd.
A Simple Haiku Writing Formula
Compiled from two of his lectures, this essay appeared in Donald Hall's collection titled Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-88.
Donald Hall on the Ambition of Poets
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry used to describe emotions in relation to nature. They are short and powerful. Here are some of my haiku poems about cold weather and winter.
Write Haiku Poems About Winter Snow and Frost
Learn all about sonnets, including what they are, what they're usually about, the different sonnet forms and why sonnets are important. Then you'll learn how to write your own!
How (and Why) to Write a Sonnet
Learn what photo poetry is and how to write it.
Discover Photo Poetry: How to Write for Photos
How a veteran poet writes a quick rhyme in no time.
How to Quickly Write a Rhyme