Tag: Poetry
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New Publication!
I’m excited to announce that my poem Confessional appears in Issue 5 of the Orange Couch, which dropped today! Please go check it out, along with all the other awesome contributors! Additionally, I have two more pieces forthcoming this summer, “Way of the Dragonborn” in the inaugural issue of a dreamy little mag called Snoozine,…
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Scaling the Cliff: Submitting to Literary Journals for the First Time
A friend asked me today about getting published in literary journals and magazines, and I want to share my response with all of you. I love helping people get started with getting published, and talk about it often with my friends, so this blog post almost feels past-due. Luckily, the friend who reached out to…
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Writing Prompt #46
Hullo fabulous folks! Grab a pen and a notebook! To celebrate the resuscitation of this blog, Prompt #46 is going to be all about rebirth, rejuvenation, and recovery. When was the last time you sat down and thought about something you overcame in life—college application statements don’t count! It’s time to do a little appreciation…
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Writing Prompt #45
It’s a Tuesday Chooseday! I’m back with another choose-your-own-adventure kind of prompt 🙂 For today, we’ll recycle a prompt from my Spoken Word class that I’ve been enjoying playing with. For an extra challenge, try writing your response with a spoken performance in mind, whatever genre you choose! Apocalyptic The day the world ended I……
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Thoughts About “You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet”
In this three stanza poem, Gordon Smith evolves his use of punctuation to help evolve the flow of the poem to suit the context of the words. The first stanza is one sentence, the only period appearing at the end. The second stanza breaks four lines in with a period, the last line standing alone…
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Daily Prompt #40
Welcome back to Tuesday Chooseday! As always, you pick which genre you would like to respond to this prompt with – fiction, nonfiction, poetry, something hybrid and fun – go wild! Revision I’m doing a lot of revising right now, what with it being finals week and all, so revision is on the brain. As…
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Daily Prompt #38
Welcome to Saturday Workshop! As a refresher, on Saturdays, I invite everyone to turn the comments into a workshop space. Everyone is welcome to post their responses to every prompt, but these Saturday responses are the only ones I can guarantee I’ll respond to. Also! On Saturdays, I include my response to the prompt as…
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Daily Prompt #34
Happy Tuesday Chooseday! Remember on Tuesdays, you choose what genre you use to respond to the prompt — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, something fun and hybrid. Up to you! Random Selection For today, you are going to get three random words. I got these words from Random Word Generator. Session Discourage Option Using these three words,…
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Daily Prompt #32
Time for some Sunday Verse! For today’s prompt, find a line of poetry that inspires you or captures your attention. It could be a Psalm, a line from Shakespeare, something written by Maya Angelou, it doesn’t matter. Any line of poetry. Riff Now that you have your line, use it as an epigraph. Riff off…
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Daily Prompt #29
Tuesday Chooseday! My favorite weekly prompt! Remember, you choose the genre you wish to use to respond. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Get creative! Write me a recipe, or a letter. How about a scene from a one-act play? Talking Books For today’s prompt, turn to page 34 of the nearest book. Look for the first paragraph…
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