2017 April PAD Challenge: Day 18
Somehow we’re already on our third Two-for-Tuesday of the month; time is flying. Here are the two prompts for today: ***** Re-create Your Poetry! Revision doesn’t have to be a…
Somehow we're already on our third Two-for-Tuesday of the month; time is flying.
Here are the two prompts for today:
- Write a life poem. The poem could be about the miracle of life, the complexity of life, the game of Life, or anything else that means life for you. Or…
- Write a death poem. For most organisms, life leads to death. So this should be as full of possibility as the life poem.
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Re-create Your Poetry!
Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!
In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.
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Here’s my attempt at a Life and/or Death Poem:
“a matter of”
she says it's a matter of life
& death but i'm skeptical
because i'm a skeptic
& that's how we roll
she says to drop the inner monologue
because it slows the poetic pace
but i confess that i just can't
because i'm a confessional poet
& that's how we roll
& i like refrains
& i like couplets
& i like life & death matters
especially when they don't concern me
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He realizes nearly everything is life and death.
Follow him on Twitter @RobertLeeBrewer.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
