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Olympic Pool

Workshop for those who have graduated from the Splash Pool or are ready to take their poetry skills to the next level. This workshop should offer encouraging and more critical feedback from each other and the Moderators/Leaders. Main purpose of workshop is to help the attendees improve their own poetry skills and helping them to offer more detailed critique.

Earn A Poem Workshop 2

Description:

1) For any member that leaves twelve or more meaningful comments a month,

You will be invited by the workshop department to this workshop.

You will also have the ability to post a second poem on top of the site policy for one poem a day. The way to do this is submit your first poem to the Earn A Poem Workshop and then you will have a remaining poem that you can  post to the stream.The option to post a second poem is available every day. Prewrites are allowed.

Date: 
Thu, 11/16/2023 to Sun, 12/01/2024

Earn A Poem Workshop 1

Description:

This Workshop is closed to new particiipants and underway

 

1)  For Participating members only 

Participating members will still have the ability to post a second poem on top of the site policy for one poem a day. The way to do this is submit your first poem to the Earn A Poem Workshop and then you will have a remaining poem that you can  post to the stream. The option to post a second poem is available every day. 

Date: 
Mon, 11/06/2023 to Fri, 11/01/2024

Stretching wings (Let's Begin)

Description:Exploring forms we don't usually use

Leader: scribbler
Moderator(s): geezer

Objectives:To get out of our comfort zones and try different forms

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: We will be posting poems in 3 different forms

Date: 
Tue, 07/20/2021 to Fri, 08/27/2021

Cellar Door

Description: The phrase 'cellar door' is purportedly the most euphonious phrase in the English language. This will be a super quicky workshop starting immediately. Just write a short poem including that phrase or variations thereof with the emphasis on pleasing sounding English.

Leaders: Jess (weirdelf) and Guy (Geezer)

Date: 
Wed, 03/27/2019 to Wed, 04/10/2019

The Great, Big, All-Inclusive Critique Workshop

Description:
 
A lot of folks who don't offer critique (who aren't doing so for selfish reasons) don't offer suggestions because they don't feel qualified. They don't have the terminology, the technical skills, the poetic know-how, or the formal education overall.
 
This workshop is intended to serve the needs of readers and writers who want a foundation for suggesting revisions and giving writing advice.
 
Date: 
Mon, 06/18/2018 to Thu, 08/30/2018

Renga 18 (Rain/Raindrops)

Description: Modern Day Renga Poetry

Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s): raj

Objectives: To bring Neopoets together to sharpen their poetic skill, share their poems, and critique Poetry of others. It is a place to interact and co-write Poetry together.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Renga Theme: Rain/Raindrops is to be written in Japanese format. Haiku 5/7/5, senyru 5/7/5, tanka 5/7/5/7/7 and Renga (Eternal string of tanka)

Date: 
Fri, 06/01/2018 to Sat, 06/30/2018

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.

Date: 
Sun, 02/11/2018 to Sun, 03/11/2018

Meter... The Workshop.

Description: A workshop concerning basic meter.

Leader: Wesley Snow
Moderator(s): Keith Logan, Jane210660
Sound Tech: weirdelf

Objectives: To aid in explaining basic meter in such a way as it may be used in continued poetry.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Meter vs. Rhythm, the four most common metric structures, exercises to practice what we learn. The importance of meter as the most important poetic structure.

Date: 
Sat, 04/29/2017 to Wed, 05/31/2017

Renga In Spring Greetings (Renga 16)

Workshop: Collaborative Poetry Writing (Renga)

Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to read, learn and write collaboratively poetry. In this workshop you will learn to write (4) four forms of Japanese poetry.
Poets would also come together and co write any poem of their choosing.

1. Haiku three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
2. Senyru three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
3. Tanka five lines of poetry written with 5/7/5/7/7 syllables
4. Renga a string of tanka poems from two or more poets.

Date: 
Mon, 04/17/2017 to Sun, 04/30/2017

How To Help With Critique

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.

Date: 
Sat, 10/15/2016 to Fri, 12/15/2017

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