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Poetry Lesson and ChallengeIn trying to define poetry via a lesson on the basics leads to a challenge. What exactly is poetry?
Writing 101: Storytelling with PoetryTraditional poetry and prose poetry can be used as storytelling vehicles. However, some approaches are more effective than others.- T.S. Eliot's Experiment on Prose PoetryAn analysis of one of Eliot's few prose-poems and its roots in French symbolist poetry.
Jennifer Michael Hecht's "Funny", a Study of Her PoetryIn Jennifer Michael Hecht's award winning Funny, she takes classic jokes and twists them to her poetic liking. I try to take these twisted results apart and look at how she does this.- ChoicesA poem about the choices we make to protect those we love and care about.
- ConsequencesWe have all known the feeling of regret for our decisions. This poems explores said feeling.
- All Walks of LifeThis poem is all about the struggles we face in life and how we deal with those struggles.
- Hella prose poem about a woman, her older mother, and a struggle with dementia.
- C.D Wright, a ReviewWhile I was a critic of C.D Wright in the classroom, her reading was extremely enjoyable.
Poetry: Saying Good-bye by DegreesMy maternal grandfather died many years ago of Alzheimer's. My mother has been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer's. Using the medium of free-style free verse will help me and others address this very scary topic.- Extra, ExtraThe yellow, brick road has been long and wicked, and I have fallen many times. But the one thing that I have learned over these years is never to give up
- Assassination Attempt on Vick Snitch?michael vick, quanis phillips, virginia beach
- Night MareA prose poem
- Questions of LifeA prose poem
- In Defense of Free VerseTHe current feeling in the world of poetry is that free verse has nothing else to offer in the 21st century and that there should be a return to form. This argues that free verse is a form and why it is still useful to today's poets.
- Horoscope: A Prose PoemAn astrological nightmare.
- Visions: A Prose PoemProse poetry often lends itself well to the surreal and the mystical. This is my attempt at a mystical sort of work.
- 100100th AC article.
- Something About the RainProse/Poetry
- John Ashbery's Collected Poems 1957-1987: A Book ReviewA review of the recent Library of America edition of John Ashbery's poetry from 1956-1987.
- Resistance to NormalcyA Review of the Poetry Collection 'Human Dark with Sugar' by Brenda Shaughnessy
- The Nature of LifeA personal poem fashioned after Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and an accompanying critique
- Words of My PenAll the words, all the emotions that I cannot express flow free through the ink I spill across the page.
Free JazzA prose-poem I wrote about free jazz and how it both follows a rhythm and loses a rhythm at the same time while simultaneously jumping from idea to idea with obscure connections.