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But Does it Rhyme?
We're a small, but
hopefully growing, band of poets who like to
talk about our craft and share what we've
written. We'll highlight favorite poets, review
new books, and explore the process of writing
poetry from inspiration to conclusion. (We might
venture into essays and short fiction, too.) We
hope you'll like our blog — and contribute your
own thought and poems.
Sally Zakariya, Poetry Editor
Richer Resources Publications
Charan Sue Wollard
(LivermoreLit)
Kevin Taylor
(Poet-ch'i)
Sherry Weaver Smith
(SherrysKnowledgeQuest)
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First Bad Poem of the Day
This exercise, suggested by a creative writing
professor, assumes that (a) you will write at
least one poem every day and (b) some or all of
the poems you write that day will be bad. It’s
the first bad one that matters, though, the
first unformed idea, the first limping lines,
the first ragged image. That’s the one you write
down as soon as you wake up. When you’ve
collected a notebook full of first bad poems,
look back for the few gems that gleam out of the
dross and see what you can make of them.
It’s a dismal undertaking but a good discipline.
Try it, you’ll see. Here, just to make you feel
better about your own first bad poems, is one of
mine:
Things are true until they’re not
day after day the same until it’s not
The cleaver comes down
and sunders what’s past
from what’s to come
A sliver of now trembles
at the blow—S.Z.
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What Are You Writing?
Why should we get all the bylines? Submit your
latest poem—just one for now—and we’ll publish
the poems we like best in an upcoming blog post.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please
let us know if the poem is accepted or published
elsewhere. Send your poem, plus a few lines
about yourself, in the body of an e-mail message
to:
poetryeditor@RicherResourcesPublications.com