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...
by Jill Williamson | May 13, 2020 | Creativity, poetry, The Craft of Writing, Writing
Over the 2019-2020 winter break, I studied hard to pass a test that would give me an endorsement for teaching English and Humanities in middle school. One thing I had to study a lot of that I previously knew almost nothing about was poetry. Since we have rarely talked...
