This pool is for specific themes and forms and is not reliant on the skill level of the participant.
Description: Short form appeals to a reader's imagination and goes across cultural barriers.
It disciplines the poet and requires the most precise choice of words in the same time leaving a good degree of pleasant ambiguity.
How to use a poetic toolbox – personification, extended metaphor, allusions, alliteration, repetition, rhyme, meter – in short form? Without a doubt it is a difficult question, however, it is well recognized that structure and patterns make a short poem esthetically pleasing.
Objectives: To practice giving constructive feedback.
Level of expertise: Open to all, especially newcomers learning to give constructive feedback.
Subject matter: This is widely regarded as one of the worst poems of all time. For this workshop simply pretend that it a Neopoet member's first poem and write a critique. Keep it reasonably short, we can't all write a thesis on everyone's poems.
We will then critique each others critiques.
Asking any questions.Using your computer for poetry, to ininityand beyond.
Description: To help participants use all features of text editing and advanced formatting for poetry. Recording sound. Anything else you would like to ask about.
Subject matter: This will be a highly proactive workshop. Each participant will let me know what you need information about and I will answer directly, refer you to one of the excellent tutorials on YouTube or arrange a time to meet in chat or via Skype to guide you through complex issues.
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Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to collaboratively write and learn Japanese poetry writing. In this workshop you will learn to write (4) four different Japanese poetry form.
Can you make a limerick serious?
The very form of the limerick makes it sound humorous.
This short workshop sets the very simple exercise of writing a limerick, true to form, with entirely non-lewd or humorous content. Content of a serious, philosophical, beauteous or emotional nature.
It will teach us a lot about form versus content.
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Workshop: Renga 10 "Birds of a Feather"
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Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to come and post verses of poetry to "Eternal Renga" So, come as a group or individual and post your verses anytime. This is an ongoing collaborative effort that could go on for hundreds of verses. A truly Neopoet group effort. Let's co-operate to create a truly Neopoet poem.
Objectives: To have everyone at Neopoet collaborating a Renga poem.
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