The Shipyards

Ashbery Quote

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:02:27 GMT

"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army." -- John Ashbery

Sample Triolets

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:51:32 GMT

A triolet is an 8-line poem with a rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB. The capital letters indicate entire lines that repeat exactly. In other words, the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical. The second and eighth lines are identical. All the A's and a's rhyme; all the B's and b rhyme.

The first one here is my all-time favorite.

Triolet
by Wendy Cope

I used to think all poets were Byronic--
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met...

HELP? I need a reader

feeds@yuku.com (SJane30) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:16:18 GMT

Hi all,

I'm thinking of submitting a chapbook and I have two separate manuscripts totalling about 44 poems. I don't need crits or anything, just an opinion on which seems to be the stronger chap. The poems in general aren't very long, and some of them have been here. Does anyone have an hour or two in the next couple days to look at these and give me an opinion? If yes, just send me an email sjanesloat (at) yahoo dot com.

danke!

On Memoir writing...but useful beyond that too, perhaps

feeds@yuku.com (Osal) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:20:06 GMT

Hi all, I've busy and so on, but Toni's note about the upcoming 7-in-7 coincided with me reading this --- and I thought it worth sharing: it's an excerpt from an article reprinted on Oprah's book club site: I think I got on that list back when Eckhart Tolle was doing his "A New Earth" series. This feels like it can apply also to opening up / to a sequence of poems, say.

in any case, I know...

award-winning sestina

feeds@yuku.com (Osal) — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:57:37 GMT

wow. i have to say, this one really captivated me.
scroll to the poetry winnner, to open the pdf file

http://www.newmillenniumwritings.com/winners-25.php

Third-Party Haibun Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Osal) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:43:54 GMT

I thought it might be nice to post some links in this thread to developing modes/strands of Haibun

here's one that seems eminently suited to the form

http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/col/rw/rwindex.html

Writing Prompts in the Shipyards

feeds@yuku.com (JudeGoodwin) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:07:26 GMT

Thanks to an enormous amount of work on the part of our admin Toni Clark, poets on the Waters have been treated to daily prompts since the beginning of the year. I had been transferring these prompts into storage but thought today we could keep them here in the Shipyards for people to refer to when they need some prompting!

Thank you Toni!!!

Lia, Here's some info on the pantoum

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:12:59 GMT

Here's a brief explanation and a link (in the article) to one of my all-time favorite pantoums, by Carolyn Kizer (Parent's Pantoum).

Beauty, Theory of

feeds@yuku.com (judyswann) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:40:04 GMT

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10641

[Link added by Toni. 3/8]

The Nonce Sonnet

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:00:31 GMT

The nonce sonnet has been described as "a poem, generally of fourteen lines, rhyming by no set pattern, which suggests the sonnet form by its rhetorical unity and closure and by the intricacy of its construction." (from The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, edited by Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizarreta).

At his Web site dedicated to the sonnet, Tex...

Marvin Bell -- 32 Statements About Writing Poetry

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:59:24 GMT

First published in The Writer's Chronicle, Commemorative Issue, 2002. Reprinted online by Copper Canyon Press.

Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry
by Marvin Bell

1. Every poet is an experimentalist.

2. Learning to write is a simple process: read something, then write something; read something else, then write something else. And show in your writing what you have...

Names and things

feeds@yuku.com (mocreighton) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:00:55 GMT

I know this is an old question. When folks writing from memory or experience, how do you handle the question of using real names? Sometimes it seems wrong to change them; sometimes it seems strange to use them. What do you think?

PS, I know its not an easy question...

Michael

SOMETHING NEW AT THE WATERS

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:20:52 GMT

Happy New Year to The Waters, and to all of our fellow poets, and participants past and present!

We'd like to announce a new initiative here at The Waters -- which is partly a restatement of the original idea behind the founding of this workshop and partly the introduction of daily prompts.

IN A NUTSHELL: We will add a Daily Prompts feature to the main forum, The Waters Poetry. There's no obligation to use the prompts in order to post here. All the details...

David Biespiel & The Attic's Manuscript Consultation Services ~1

feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:01:58 GMT

Hi All,

David Biespiel, editor of Poetry Northwest and IBPC judge for A-M-J 2006, is also, as many of you know, the founding director and writer-in-residence of the Attic Writers' Workshop in Portland, Oregon....

EXERCISE BASKET

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:31:06 GMT
Repository of Writing Exercises -- excluding themed calls from journals.

This Topic serves as a repository of current contests, themes, challenges, and exercises that we can draw on to spark poems. Anyone is free to browse here and use any of the ideas. We'll also select 7 a week to serve as daily prompts for those who would like to use them. It's lots of fun when several people are...

POETRY PROMPT ARCHIVE -- Dec 2008 - Dec 2009

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:31:06 GMT
This thread compiles numerous prompts posted in the past at The Waters. Most of them were collected from various journals' calls for themed submissions. The prompts may still give you some ideas for writing, but please note that these deadlines have long since passed.

1
Write a food-themed poem. Consider submitting it to Tattoo...

How to Lose a Poetry Contest

feeds@yuku.com (JudeGoodwin) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:16:28 GMT
A Contrarian's Guide: Ten Tips on How to Lose a Poetry Contest
from MoonTownCafe.com
by Kyle Oz

There are many ways to win a poetry contest but rarely does anyone consider the surefire ways to lose a poetry contest. Let's have a look, shall we?

1. Spelling.
There is nothing more disheartening to a poetry...

Palinode (not what you think!)

feeds@yuku.com (toniclark) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:26:15 GMT
I saw this posted at The Gazebo and thought I'd pass it on. Palinode.

But hey, it would be a great term for a (tongue-in-cheek) ode to Sarah P. Or perhaps an ode by Sarah, in which she retracts everything she said. . . .

tc

Do You Have A Chapbook For Sale?

feeds@yuku.com (JudeGoodwin) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:41:49 GMT
This was a thread in an old BLOG of mine and I wanted to bring it over here. Many of the links etc might be now defunct, but here's what we have and if YOU have a chapbook for sale, please add your info to this thread.

15 Comments:

Blogger Ivy said...

Hi Jude, I have chapbooks available through this link. Also, lots of other available chapbooks through DIY Publishing Poetry Webring. Thanks for the invitation.
2:08 PM
Blogger Collin...

Sonnezio?

feeds@yuku.com (JudeGoodwin) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:53:06 GMT
Hi I know we've done this before but I can't find that reference or link to Kim Addonizio's sonnet form - anyone have it?

Thanks in advance
Jude