Download or read book A Writer s Heart Collection of Creative Poems written by Angela Parks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Monique Parks is not a poet because of what she writes. She IS poetry. It is her being and her existence. Her life is an ebb-and-flow of rhythmic movement that becomes a buffet of verbiage. Angie has not invited you to read. She has invited you to sit down and feast like you were with her at her GrandmaÕs house. Her intention is not to deliver refined passages of scripted writing. You are being handed a plate of mouth-watering fried chicken, greens, yams, and hot buttery rolls. The seasoning in the verses is perfected and will satisfy every area of your palette. Get your fork and be prepared to be so full you will need a nap, but when you wake up, you are coming back for more and more again. Angie is a chef with a pen, and she has cooked up a family reunion for everyone who wants to come. Whatever you do, donÕt deprive yourself of this collection! Dr. Kathy E. Williams

Download or read book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart written by Andrea Gibson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In this accessible volume, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn to uncover verse in unexpected places, find their way through a poem when they don't quite "get it," and discover just how transformative poetry can be. This is a gorgeous and inspiring gift for any fan of the written word.

Download or read book Dear Poet Notes to a Young Writer written by Charles Ghigna and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet Charles Ghigna pulls back the curtain of creativity and presents a poetic look into the mind and heart of the creative process. In a series of pithy and poignant reflections, Ghigna reveals insights into personal truths about inspiration, writing, and art. Dear Poet: Notes to a Young Writer is a companion guide for all who dare follow their dreams and heed the call of the creative life.

Download or read book Rip the Page written by Karen Benke and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett. This is your journal for inward-bound adventures—use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine—and even rip!

Download or read book Write About Poetry written by Steven Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we read poetry, compare poems, or generate observations into a thoughtful response? Write About Poetry is an invaluable reference book and skills guide for students of poetry. Featuring model essays, a glossary of technical terms, and additional practice for student engagement, this volume provides students with a clear and concise guide to: • reading unseen poems with confidence • developing general observations into formal, structured written responses • fostering familiarity with some of the great poets and poems in literary history Drawing on years of teaching experience, Steven Jackson delivers the background, progressive methodology, and practical essay writing techniques essential for understanding the fundamental steps of poetry analysis.

Download or read book My Bright Last Country written by Jane Craven and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry written by Jane Craven. Winner of the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize given annually by Cloudbank Books.

Download or read book CASCADE OF POETRY written by Brinda Srinivas and her Group of Creative Writers of 31 Teacher-poets and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CASCADE OF POETRY is an anthology consisting of poems written by 32 English Poet-Teachers mostly belonging to Tamil Nadu State Board, TN, India. It throws light on various themes of present day. It is a treat to the lovers of English Literature. All 32 poets' bio-lines with their photos have been given inside the book.

Download or read book The Inspired Heart written by Melinda Cochrane International and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers in this book speak to the beauty of the female spirit. We celebrate it as one. Edited by Bruce Kauffman. Melinda Cochrane International

Download or read book Flame and Shadow written by Sara Teasdale and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flame and Shadow (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet’s fifth collection, published two years after she won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Flame and Shadow revels in the mystery of existence itself. “What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?” Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds, and “the silver light after a storm,” Teasdale’s poetry dissolves the poet’s ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy: “For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, / It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.” In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” a poem born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue despite our disappearance: “Robins will wear their feathery fire / Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war...” For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale’s Flame and Shadow is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.

Download or read book The Stone of Language written by Anya Achtenberg and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANYA ACHTENBERG is an award-winning author of the novel Blue Earth, and novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl (both with Modern History Press); and poetry books, The Stone of Language (West End Press); and I Know What the Small Girl Knew (Holy Cow! Press). Her fiction has received awards from Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and more; and poetry awards include first prizes from Southern Poetry Review and Another Chicago Magazine. Individual works of fiction and poetry have also been published in Harvard Review; Malpaís Review; Gargoyle; Tupelo Quarterly; The Mas Tequila Review; Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion; Hinchas de poesía; Poet Lore; Taos International Journal; Paterson Review; and numerous others. Prior to the 2004 publication of The Stone of Language, various versions of this manuscript won recognition as a finalist in five competitions: the Philip Levine Poetry Contest, the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press, the May Swenson Award from Utah State University Press, Cleveland State University’s Poetry Center Prize, and the Alice James Books Awards. "Achtenberg is a poet of lyrical intensity... interested in detail for the wealth of revelation and music it will yield up" -- Luis H. Francia, The Village Voice "Anya Achtenberg's visionary workshops on writing for social change have received national acclaim. With this book of poetry, she practices what she preaches--redreaming a just world--in a way that is simply breathtaking." -- Demetria Martinez, author of Mother Tongue "Stunning and original! Powerful 'make it new' language" -- Stratis Haviaras, founder and editor of Harvard Review

Download or read book The Writer s Brush written by Judith Anne Cassis and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writer's Brush The Writer's Brush is an anthology compiled by the Golden Pen Writers Guild, a group of authors, poets, and writers who have been meeting weekly for 22 years. The group met in person until the pandemic in March of 2020. Since that day, the Golden Pen Writers Guild has been meeting online by group video class. This has allowed them to continue weekly meetings and also allowed writers from other parts of the country to join them. Writers from other parts of California, Texas, Michigan, Florida, and New Jersey have made their way to weekly classes and made friends among the group. Over the years, writers have come and gone, however many have been participating for 20 years or more. A few have been in the group since its inception. The age range 16 and 96. Golden Pen Writers Guild Anthologies The Writer's Brush is the group's 9th anthology. Since 2003, they have compiled works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose and there has been a heavy emphasis on memoir. Students and members of the group have not only written but also edited their works as part of each project. The books have been published by the group's founder and facilitator, Judith Cassis through her company, Writer to Writer. Judith is a New York Times/LA Times bestselling ghostwriter and book coach. What is Creative Writing? Creative Writing helps us understand and appreciate our innermost thoughts and communicate them from our perspectives. Works can be fiction or nonfiction; humorous or sad; drawn from imagination or based on a true story. An entire spectrum of feelings can be brushed onto a book's pages in the same way a painter brushes colors onto a canvas. Poetry is one form of creative expression. Poems provide a window into the heart and soul of the poet and articulate their ideas and views of the world. Poetry creates social impact. It heals. There is no right and wrong in poetry. Memoir is a written narrative from the author's perspective, highlighting specific life experiences, or moments in time. It is personal and subjective; humorous or heart-rendering. It also heals and offers resolution as the writer expresses in words. For two decades, the Golden Pen Writers Guild has shared works in nine anthologies and produced public performances. We offer The Writer's Brush and hope you enjoy reading our poetry, prose, and stories-fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. We hope it encourages readers to pick up a pen and write. Twenty two years is a long time and to keep things interesting and help the writers grow, they built their skills in other ways. Along with various trainings in creative writing, members of the Golden Pen Writers Guild have also dabbled in other forms of writing and genres, such as writing reviews, radio commercials, interviews, reports, resumes, single-act playwriting, eBook production, flash fiction and more. They have been given the opportunity to participate in the Los Angeles Festival of Books (2016), The Santa Clarita Library Authors events, and an advanced writer's course offered by WritertoWriter.com (2015-2018). More than 20 students of the Golden Pen Writers Guild have published their own books; some more than one. Contact Judith Cassis at [email protected] for information about other anthologies still available.

Download or read book How to Write a Poem written by Tania Runyan and published by T. S. Poetry Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to teach someone how to write a poem? Or does poetry simply "come from the heart" or from a special talent only some can ever hope to have? Of course there's no formula for writing an amazing poem. If poems came with instructions like IKEA(r) coffee tables, we'd all be missing the point. But this book will give you some strategies-some tools, if you will-to assemble your personal, imaginative raw materials into poems that will surprise and intrigue. These strategies are focused primarily on free verse, yet many of the concepts can also be applied to form poetry, at both the inception and revision stages. "How to Write a Poem" uses images like the buzz, the switch, the wave-from the Billy Collins poem "Introduction to Poetry"-to guide writers into new ways of writing poems. Excellent teaching tool. Anthology and prompts included.

Download or read book Stunt Heart written by Mary Jo Thompson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stunt Heart, Mary Jo Thompson's debut collection, a female gaze locates the ironies inside the subjects of marriage and death, loneliness and love, speaking and silence. The title plays on both sick hearts and circus tricks, and appropriately, these poems are direct, personal, and disarmingly emotive. Look at the end of the first poem, "Says Penelope," where the speaker suddenly veers to "Newsflash: I sleep- / walk." These stark moments of admission are used to perfection in the centerpiece sonnet series, "Thirteen Months," the collection's highlight. Distilled emotion over the illness and death of an estranged husband ranges in tone from the dark humor that compares the marriage to a used car to the elegiac imagery of protecting the family garden from frost. The shock of seeing the deceased in his casket looking like a cross between Clark Gable and Dracula seasons the collection, recurring in ruminations on the various ways a body is prepared at death and the story of a mother who dies while sneezing. Although no one brings back the dead by writing poetry, in Stunt Heart, Thompson revisits them with credible humor and tough dispatches from bedrooms, graveyards, and hospital hallways. Thompson's Stunt Heart jukes, dodges, and prays while muscling through all manners of demise and in the process reveals how one can turn grief into speech, art into grieving.

Download or read book You Poet written by Rayna Hutchison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a variety of advice for tapping into your creative voice, sharing your work online, and honing your writing skills, You/Poet shows you how to express yourself creatively through the art of poetry. You may think that writing poetry requires a specific set of skills. You may have read books on writing poetry that were stuffy and full of strict rules and regulations. But You/Poet proves that all you need to be a poet is the desire to share your inner thoughts and emotions with the world. Let HerHeartPoetry—an online poetry community, Instagram, digital zine, and poetry press—take you on a journey of self-discovery and surprise, and show you how to embrace the world of writing poetry with arms wide open. Writing poetry is an act of bravery. It’s just you, your thoughts and feelings, and the words you choose to express them. You/Poet can help you do just that. With encouragement and advice on poetry writing basics, how to identify your unique creative voice, and prompts and exercises to help you channel your thoughts and emotions through writing, this all-in-one guide will help you share your talent with the world.

Download or read book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart written by Andrea Gibson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed "HOW Series" of books Poetry can transform: How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In How Poetry Can Change Your Heart, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. • Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn to uncover verse in unexpected places, find their way through a poem when they don't quite "get it," and discover just how transformative poetry can be. • Andrea Gibson is a leading voice in spoken-word poetry, headlining prestigious performance venues internationally. Megan Falley is a National Poetry Slam finalist and creator of the online writing course "Poems That Don't Suck." Fans of Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies and Take Me With You, and Megan Falley's Drive Here and Devastate Me will love taking a deeper dive into the inspiring power of poetry. Discover or re-discover the magic that is poetry. • A gorgeous and inspiring gift for any fan of the written word • Will become a go-to volume for poetry writers and readers

Download or read book The World Waiting to Be written by Louis Brodsky and published by Time Being Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fifty-eight-poem collection, Brodsky examines the highs and lows authors experience as they practice their craft. Portraying everything from writer's block and the terror of the blank page to the overwhelming joy of finishing a work, The World Waiting To Be is both lamentation and love song to creative inspiration and the intersection of time and eternity, in the act of writing.

Download or read book Poems to Learn by Heart written by Caroline Kennedy and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.