Welcome to our weekly poetry stars' celebration. This week’s challenge was to write our poem as tanka prose. Learning how to write specific forms, like tanka prose, stretches what we keep in our creative toolbox. Happy Labor Day weekend here in the United States. This is usually our last hurrah for summer here in Michigan. The… Continue reading #TANKATUESDAY #POETRY STARS | #Specificform: #Tanka #Prose
Month: September 2021
How to craft Syllabic Poetry
Are you new to crafting syllabic poetry and don't know how to start? Let me show you two syllabic poetry forms to get you started on your poetry writing journey now... Let's start with an American form, the Crapsey Cinquain. The Crapsey Cinquain is a five-line, non-rhyming poem featuring a syllable structure of 2-4-6-8-2. Choose words… Continue reading How to craft Syllabic Poetry
Smorgasbord Book Reviews Rewind – Word Craft: Prose & Poetry: The Art of Crafting Syllabic Poetry by Colleen M. Chesebro
What a lovely surprise to find a reshare of Sally Cronin’s review of Word Craft: Prose & Poetry. I’m thrilled!
If you think you can’t write poetry… you haven’t tried syllabic poetry! Join us for #TankaTuesday on wordcraftpoetry.com each week. It’s time to spread your creative wings! ❤
As a participant in Colleen Chesebro’s weekly Tuesday Tanka Challenge, I have discovered so many different forms of syllabic poetry and come to love creating poems in these formats. I reviewed the collection in May this year.
About the book
Are you ready to learn how to craft Japanese and American poetry? Consider this book the first step on your journey to learning the basics of how to craft syllabic poetry. Inside, you will discover many new forms, syllable combinations, and interpretations of the different Japanese and American forms and structures of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, renga/solo renga, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, the cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry.
So… what are you waiting for? Let’s craft syllabic poetry together!
My review for the guide and poetry collection May 19th 2021
I have enjoyed poetry from childhood and would write stories in verse from an early…
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“Word Weaving, No. 1” is Available for Pre-Order
Jules and I are excited to announce that today, September 1, 2021, the first edition of Word Weaving is available for pre-order! Customers who pre-order the Kindle book will receive the content on the release date of 10/01/2021. ORDER HERE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DWDMXWK Creating the Kindle version of Word Weaving was important to us because we wanted… Continue reading “Word Weaving, No. 1” is Available for Pre-Order