A poetry community for poets that believe there's beauty in our messiest moments.
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The poem-as-body
Writing from the gut, the heart and the lungs
Have you ever thought about what your organs would say if they could talk? What they would write? Do you prefer to read poetry that comes from a certain place in the body? Guts, heart, lungs, o...
In Defense of the Details
In our Messy Writers Club workshops, my writers and I often talk about specificity of detail and how delicious fine details are in a poem. An amateur poetry mistake is to try to make the images as grandiose as possible in your poems, thinki...
Poems in a time of upheaval
You feel angry. You feel frustrated with the state of things (understandably). You’ve been writing or considering writing some political poems. But you’re nervous to share them. You don’t want to be divisive. You don’t want to stir the pot....
How do you know when a poem is “done”?
I think about this question a lot.
I think about this question a lot. How do I know when my poem is “done”? I usually think about this in the context of painting. I’m sure many of us have heard stories about painters going “one brushstroke...
How to be a profound, poetic pain in the butt
In a cover letter to my dream lit mag, I wrote, “On my gravestone they will likely write; she was nothing if not exceedingly tenacious. We both loved and hated that about her.”
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A wee bit witchy 🧙♀️ Poet, wildlife photographer, ally. 💚 Head writer at The Messy Writers Club, a monthly writing circle. Author of “Upon Learning That” and “All these Living Things” available at the link in my bio ✍️
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