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| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31041 Registered: 11-1998 |
. Dearest Membership -- Here is the tenth in The Poet's Note Card series. These Note Cards come from a book entitled The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry, by Kevin Clark. Mr. Clark is a winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award, is a university professor at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and a widely published poet. This book on the teaching of poetry writing is concise, practical, and has been designed specifically for a college-level term. It includes a progression of lessons, example poems, and stimulating exercises. While most advanced poets already know these things, it doesn't hurt to review them. Or to learn them if you are a beginner to the craft of poetry making. I'll try to bring you a Poet's Note Card every so often. While you might not agree with every point Mr. Clark makes, I do hope these note cards serve to help those who are new to poetry by providing some basic foundation of information on which to build. Oh, and I do recommend that you acquire the book. It's an excellent textbook, especially if you would like to attend a college-level poetry writing course, but cannot for whatever reason. The link above (click on the book's title) will take you to the WPF BookShop and the Amazon description of the book. Thanks for reading! Love, M (Administrator) ------------------------------------------------- The Poet's Note Card -- #10 from The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark Nonformal Forms 1. Uniform stanzas can often help to bring an unruly or disorganized series of images into a more cohesive unit. 2. Some poems benefit from using “open space,” that is, spacing the poem so that it seems aerated by the whiteness of the page. Such arrangements often resist the weighty directness of a conventionally shaped poem, facilitating, instead, a somewhat delicate, even provisional approach. 3. Visual caesurae are blank spaces in the middle of a line. These forced breaks can render the way a person’s cognition might slow down, as if the mind is stuttering, usually when that person is under great stress. 4. Deceptively challenging, prose poems require that you marshal tools other than the poetic line. . | ||
| Rania S. Watts
Advanced Member Username: cementcoveredcherries Post Number: 1455 Registered: 04-2008 |
Thank you, thank you, thank you!  "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~ Oscar Wilde "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman Cement Covered Cherries | ||
| Teresa White
Advanced Member Username: teresa_white Post Number: 1368 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thanks so much, M, for taking the time to post these Note Cards here. Very helpful! ~T. Be satisfied that ye have enough light to secure another foothold. Anon. |
