Tag: poetry
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In Honor of Poetry Month: A few poems about the beauty of film
Crosspost from The Making of The Repass Few people know this but I found my way into the filmmaking world via poetry. As a college student, I loved poetry and I wrote my thesis as a book of my own poetry. Yet when I graduated I wanted to something more. A few years later I found…
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Poetry Helps Life Fall Into Place: Symmetry
What I love about poetry is how words are like rain. They fall from the sky but it is up to us to consider the raindrops as more than just rain, as energy, expression and impetus. Words are very powerful things and as writers we must be careful to wield them cautiously. In a poem,…
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Summer of Poetry Fun
So we finished up Poetry as Discovery at the Culver City Adult School in June but we’ll be restarting again in the fall Wednesday nights. Our last class ended with creating the beautiful poetry collages that you see here! Yup, adults still like to craft too. In the meantime I’ll be hanging out at the…
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Patterns of Rhythm, Rhyme and Order
In my CCAS Poetry as Discovery class this week, we talked about rhythm, rhyme and order as important aspects of poetry, but also urgent aspects of life. Patterns are such a requisite building block of life as are the need to break out of them at times. We also dared to venture only 20 minutes…
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It takes a full life to write a good poem
We are entering the 3rd week of my Poetry As Discovery class that I’m teaching at the Culver City Adult School. Fantastic class, and fantastic students. Over the course of 7 weeks (hopefully next term will be 10), we are covering Comparisons Imagery Rhythm, Rhyme, and Order Sound, Sense and Story and will spend the…
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Welcome to National Poetry Month’s Free Workshops
2013-04-09 Poetry Flyer This April we’ll be celebrating National Poetry Month at the libraries. Join us for Words That Inspire, a poetry collage program where kids are inspired to make new poems from old poems and create a collage of words and images to bring it to life! We’ll be at the West Hollywood Library…
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The Poetry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Did you know Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a poet? Most would be surprised to hear it, but people forget that speeches are in fact a form of poetry: littered with poetic devices like alliteration, rhythm, metaphor, simile and rhyme. Speech writers are storytellers of the ancient as they wrote beautiful lyrical stories that…