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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