The assignment for Day 5 includes the following: Prompt: fog Form: elegy Device: metaphor Elegy Originally requiring specific meters, nowadays elegies come in all shapes and sizes, though they are united by their (often melancholic) focus on loss and longing. As much as it can mourn something that’s gone forever, it can also celebrate it. […]
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The Day 4 assignment offers these challenges: Prompt: animal Form: concrete poetry Device: enjambment Concrete Poetry Also known as shape poetry, the idea here is to arrange your words on the screen (or the page) so that they create a shape or an image. The meaning of the image can be obvious at first glance,
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The assignment for Day 3 offers these three parameters: Prompt: trust Form: acrostic Device: internal rhyme Acrostic Acrostics have been around for millennia: they’re a creative way to give order and convey multiple meanings at once while staying fairly subtle. There have been two prevalent ways to create acrostics. In one, you follow the sequence
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Here’s the assignment for Day 2: Prompt: journey Form: limerick Device: alliteration limerick Limericks are traditionally composed of five lines of verse. The traditional rhyming scheme of a limerick is a a b b a — the first two lines rhyme, then the next two, and the final verse rhymes with the first couplet. Write
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Today begins WordPress Writing 201: Poetry Class. How great it is to have such a resource available for FREE! I write strictly nonfiction, so this class is a big stretch for me. But I’m determined to work on my writing this year, and what better way to do that than to dabble in something WAY
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My major life activities are reading (usually fiction) and writing (always nonfiction). So I’m delighted when I come across something that combines the two: something like Marcy McKay’s writing challenge What Your Favorite Books Tell You About Your Writing. Marcy runs The Write Practice, a web site and newsletter aimed at fiction writers, but even
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Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book – NYTimes.com. Last week’s announcement that another novel by Harper Lee, author of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, had been discovered and would be published in July stirred up a lot of controversy and questions. The recently discovered novel is titled Go
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Yesterday’s announcement that Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, would publish a second novel this July rocked the literary world. Here’s a collection of articles on the significance of the news. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel Alexandra Alter reports in the books section of
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Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel – NYTimes.com. What a surprise! I’ll definitely read it. Will you?
I love Mark Zuckerberg’s book club: Unpacking his quest for literary meaning I had seen references to Mark Zuckerberg’s book club but, despite being a fan of both books and book clubs, I wasn’t much interested in learning about it. But Laura Miller, senior writer for Salon and a self-described “book-recommender,” was. Most of the
