Word Craft: Prose & Poetry

#TankaTuesday Book Gallery

Welcome to the #TankaTuesday Book Gallery. Below, you will find a selection of books published by our Tanka Tuesday Challenge Poets. The links will take you to the Amazon.com Author page or to the book, if an author page is unavailable, which happens to some of our international poets. While…Continue reading “#TankaTuesday Book Gallery”

Colleen M. Chesebro—Prose Metrist

Word Craft: Prose & Poetry, created by Colleen M. Chesebro, is an uplifting community where poets can learn the basics of writing Japanese and American syllabic poetry by sharing their own poetic inspiration within a weekly poetry challenge called Tanka Tuesday.

Participants submit their poetry written in one of the twelve forms: haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, renga, cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger hexastich, Abhanga & diatelle. Poets receive positive feedback from peers who inspire each other to stretch their creativity.

Participants and readers return each week to celebrate the weekly poetry stars and to buy books from the Tanka Tuesday Book Store.

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“The Woman in Red,” tanka, senryu, Abhanga

This week’s #TankaTuesday poetry challenge is an Ekphrastic challenge. Read the post HERE. It thrilled me when my friend, Rebecca Budd, introduced me to her blog called Chasing Art. I’ve always been interested in art, and the different mediums an artist uses to interpret their creativity. She shared John Waterhouse’s works, and my mind lit […]

“Snow Blind,” senryu vs haiku

luminous sunshine snow reflections sparkle… I’m blind as a bat © Colleen M. Chesebro While haiku are often stark and disciplined, senryu poems are often witty or funny. The senryu is a three-line (5-7-5, 3-5-3, 2-3-2 syllable) Japanese poetic form that focuses on human nature, including an ironic or darkly comedic edge. Some are witty, […]

Haiku

I love haiku. They are one of my favorite syllabic forms to write. This haiku is written for #TankaTuesday and the specific form challenge. Haiku are written about nature, the seasons, a beautiful moment in nature, an emotional experience while in nature, or change. In haiku, your subject will always be about nature. The use […]

#TankaTuesday Book Gallery

#TankaTuesday Book Gallery

The #TankaTuesday 2022 Poetry Challenge Schedule

Word Weaving No. 1: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse – The Moons of Autumn

How to craft Syllabic Poetry

#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 258, #THEMEPROMPT

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 257 | #EkphrasticPrompt

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 257 #Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 256 | #SpecificForm: haiku

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 256, Colleen’s Specific Form: haiku

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 255 | #TastetheRainbow

#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 255: #Tastetherainbow

Significant Poetry Reads: “Think Tanka – Vision in Verse,” by Annette Rochelle Aben, @YouAreTheExpert

Treasuring Poetry – An introduction to Word Weaving #1: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse edited and compiled by Colleen Chesebro and Jules Paige

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