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Description: Post your first ever or earliest poem
Leader: Jess (weirdelf)
Moderator(s): Wesley
Objectives: Just for curiosity, to see where we've come from.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter: Most of these poems will be polished or not actively editing. This is not really a workshop but more 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' of our earliest works.
Most important:- Remember when posting your first poem to scroll down to 'Workshop' dropdown and select 'Poets first poems'.
Date:
Fri, 06/23/2017 to Tue, 06/23/2020
Description: A participant driven shop dealing with most aspects of imagery in poetry
Leader: Stan Holliday (scribbler)
Moderator(s): Wesley Snow
Objectives: To get poets more comfortable with using imagery to improve on poetry
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter: We will practice using differing imagery starting with a single line then building up to entire poems. There will be a discussion to begin with and toward the end examine known poetry with imagery remove to show how great the difference can be
Date:
Sat, 06/24/2017 to Mon, 07/24/2017
Description: A free verse poem not to exceed 28 lines (not counting stanza breaks) about somebody who changed history
Sponsor(s): scribbler, Geezer and Pugilist
Objectives: to have fun and stretch wings
Subject matter: Historical figures
How Judged: Very important to put (June Contest) in the title and submit to the Stream
Description:Any poem about spring
Sponsor(s):Gee and scribbler
Judge(s):anonymous
Objectives:Just to get creative juices flowing and have fun
Subject matter:Spring....either straight forward or metaphorical
How Judged:
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
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
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
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.
Description: A quick exercise in Critique
Leader: weirdelf (Jess)
Moderator(s): Volunteers please.
Objectives: To practice giving constructive feedback on bad poetry.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter: This is widely regarded as one of the worst poems of all time. For this workshop simply pretend that it has been posted by a Neopoet member and write a critique.
We will then critique each others critiques.
The Tay Bridge Disaster
by William McGonagall
Date:
Sun, 09/11/2016 to Tue, 09/27/2016
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