Friday, January 16, 2009

Ways to Practice Poetry

I'm going to get back to posting poems, trying to review books, and continue this site as soon as I can. For now, I really enjoyed this this blog post's (see the link below) five steps to practicing poetry, and they could serve as a good guide for any poet. Revision/humility and gratitude are hardest for me, but I think they're really necessary. Please check this post out on Poetry's blog site.

http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/mystery_birds_5_ways_to_practi.html#more

3 comments:

Nancy Devine said...

glad you're back. nice post.
thanks.

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