Originally written for hobby blog on 23 March 2018 One of my close friends often accuses me of liking “boring” things. I enjoy playing walking sims, watching documentaries, and reading poetry in my downtime. When I, in an offhand fashion, mentioned that I had been “poetry-ed out” after having read several poetry books in a …
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I don’t believe performance to be my strong suit, but below are things I’ve learned from my time in the spoken word scene and I will be forever grateful for the vast improvements I achieved in my poetry and (dare I say) in my confidence from working with members of the spoken word community, even …
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Prose, poetry, and experimental writing are not simply genres or writing, but feel like entirely different mediums and constructs. While you may go about writing a space opera differently from a harlequin romance, just as you use different aspects of poetry depending on if you’re writing lyrical poetry or spoken word, they all hold the …
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While the following passage may seem like a lot to include, I think it’s important to make my point: My basic research shelves consist of around one hundred books, which represents 3 percent of my total collection, took me years to put together. These are the books I have within easy reach of my computer …
Haha, more plant puns! You’ll be seeing a lot more of those, and I don’t regret it all. You might though. Like puns, poetry is another p-word that seems to make a lot of the general populace groan. “It’s too pretentious” (ooo look another p-word), “it’s boring,” “it’s just people with no rhythm attempting to …
One thing to consider before asking yourself or anyone else the questions I pose below is to think about what the purpose of art (in general) is. Even as I focus mainly on poetry, I’m sure there are as many different reasons for writing poetry as there are poets, but personally I find there are …
Let’s go back to the scene I painted in Packing for Writing, except now you have all the writing utensils, potable water and granola bars you could ask for and you used your vital common sense to inform at least one other person as to your whereabouts. Maybe you’re sitting on a downed log near …
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Your muse, inspiration, spark, whatever you want to call it, doesn’t always come to you when you want it to. Several of the sources I used throughout this list have a plethora of prompts. For more general poetry prompts for the starting poet, The Mind’s Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark is …
Imagine this: you’ve walked 15 km over multiple hours with a pack that is at least 50 pounds, you took the time to scan your site, pick the perfect place to pitch your tent or hammock, got some lake water boiling, freshened up, and finally, you excitedly pull out your notebook, set your only pencil …
I am still pretty young (not 30 yet) and if I’ve been camping and hiking a majority of my life, my parents have at least a decade’s more experience on me, so here’s a few tips from them, separated mainly into six categories: packing, sleeping, eating, drinking, clothing, and playing Packing Be good at playing …