by Jill Williamson | Jun 17, 2020 | poetry
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought of sonnets as love poems. As it turns out, many sonnets are about love, but sonnets can be written about other things as well. A sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, which essentially means “little song.”...
by Jill Williamson | Jun 10, 2020 | poetry, Writing Exercise
There are so many styles of poetry. Today, I’m going to combine all the types of narrative poetry into one post, so that we aren’t talking about poems for the rest of the year! Narrative poetry are poems that tell stories. There are many examples of modern narrative...
by Jill Williamson | Jun 3, 2020 | poetry, Writing
As we continue our series on poetry, today brings us to the elegy. I find the timing of this topic fitting in the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. People all over the world are angry, and rightly so. While everyone deals with...
by Jill Williamson | May 27, 2020 | poetry, Writing
Just as there is more than one genre of fiction, there is more than one genre of poetry. Over the next few weeks we are going to discuss several different genres of poetry. Today we are talking about free verse poetry. This, for most, is the easiest kind of poetry to...
by Jill Williamson | May 20, 2020 | poetry, The Craft of Writing, Writing
Today we are continuing our talk on prosody, or sound, in poetry. While many poems rhyme, they don’t all rhyme in the same way. Take the following excerpts of famous poems, for example. In all honesty, posting only the first verse of these poems isn’t fair, since...
