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Monday, December 19, 2016 12:50:30 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Bite-Sized Sonnet:
Tricia said, "Since we wrote a sonnet variation last week, I thought I continue with this theme. In Avis Harley's book Fly With Poetry: An ABC of Poetry, she include the bite-sized sonnet. This form follows the rhyme scheme of a "traditional sonnet,"..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:16:03 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Curtal/Curtailed Sonnet:
Tricia said, "Sorry I missed you all last week. I got caught up in the end of the semester and it was Friday before I realized I hadn't scheduled a post for writing. Mea culpa. I am back and have a number of stretches ready to go to see us into the New Year.The..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:04:02 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Seven Write Ekphrastic Poems (One Last Time for 2016):
Tricia said, "And so, another year of writing poetry with my fabulous sisters comes to an end. This year we alternated poetic forms with ekphrastic poems. This time around Andi shared photos taken at the Glencairn Museum Cloister. This is the photo I..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:59:32 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Six Words:
Tricia said, "Don't fret, this isn't a sestina! Today I have a different six-word poetry challenge.In the book I Am Writing a Poem About . . . A Game of Poetry, Myra Cohn Livingston writes about three of the assignments she gave to students in her master..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:51:15 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Terzanelle:
Tricia said, "I'm a day late this holiday week, but I'm here and glad you are as well.So, what do you get when you cross a terza rima and a villanelle? The answer is a poetic form called a terzanelle. A terzanelle uses the villanelle’s form of five..." more
Monday, November 14, 2016 6:28:14 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Diminishing Rhyme:
Tricia said, "The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, contains a number of prompts and writing exercises, including this one entitled Emotion/Motion/Ocean/Shun. Here's what Susan Mitchell writes:If you read the title of this exercise..." more
Monday, November 7, 2016 8:17:28 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Macaronic Verse:
Tricia said, "In celebrating my blogiversary yesterday (10 years!), I went back and looked at all the poetry stretches we've done since I started posting them in August of 2007. It's been more than two years we wrote poems in the form of macaronic verse, so..." more
Sunday, November 6, 2016 4:21:34 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Ten Years Old! A Blogiversary Retrospective:
Tricia said, "Today I am celebrating 10 years in the blogosphere, and more specifically, the Kidlitosphere. It's been an amazing ride. I've found a community here that humbles, inspires, educates, and supports me in ways I never would have imagined when I started..." more
Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:57:10 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Seven Write Terza Rima:
Tricia said, "As this year of writing together winds down, the Poetry Seven gang is tackling our final form, the terza rima. The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Padgett, 2000) defines terza rima in this fashion.Terza rima is a..." more
Monday, October 31, 2016 8:04:47 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Ekphrastic:
Tricia said, "Since it's Halloween, it seemed appropriate to suggest we write about this image.Shapes of Fear by Maynard Dixon (1930-32)Smithsonian American Art MuseumSo, there's your challenge for the week. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in..." more
Monday, October 24, 2016 6:44:51 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - List Poem for Fall:
Tricia said, "A list poem is a carefully crafted list, catalog, or inventory of things. Robert Lee Brewer of Poetic Asides writes this in his article List Poem: A Surprisingly American Poem:The list poem was used by the Greeks and in many books of..." more
Friday, October 21, 2016 7:03:16 AM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday is Here Today!:
Tricia said, "**Apologies, folks. I set the schedule as I always do for 12:01. Apparently, this time around I hit PM instead of AM. I'm here and ready to go!*******“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” (Anne of Green Gables, chapter..." more
Sunday, October 16, 2016 9:50:26 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Rondeau Redoublé:
Tricia said, "The rondeau redoublé is a French poetic form composed of 25 lines with only 2 rhymes, whole repeating lines, and a hemstitch.The lines of the first stanza reappear in order as the final lines of the next four stanzas. The hemstitch appears as a..." more
Monday, October 10, 2016 5:03:15 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Rondeau:
Tricia said, "The rondeau is a French poetic form that uses only two rhymes and hemstitch. Here are the basic guidelines:Composed of 15 linesLines of 8 syllables, except the refrain, which is 4 syllablesRefrain (hemstitch) is the first 4 syllables of the..." more
Thursday, October 6, 2016 9:02:48 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Seven Write Poems for Arlequin:
Tricia said, "This month the poetry gang wrote poems to images selected by Kelly. The piece is by René de Saint-Marceaux and is titled Arlequin. Kelly took the photos at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon, France. Photographs © Kelly FinemanI've been..." more
Monday, October 3, 2016 8:10:25 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Magic 9:
Tricia said, "The Magic 9 is a relatively new 9-line poetic form. Here's what the Poets Garret has to say about it's inception.Typing too fast is often the cause of spelling mistakes and one day Abracadabra was typed as abacadaba and right away a poetry form..." more
Monday, September 19, 2016 6:18:16 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Haibun:
Tricia said, "The haibun is is a poetic form first created by Matsuo Basho. It is a form that combines two modes of writing—prose and verse.Here are some of the "rules" of writing haibun, as suggested by the Haiku Society of America.Prose in HaibunTells the..." more
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:49:34 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Landay:
Tricia said, "Late again! I can't seem to get my act together this semester, so please forgive the late post.The landay is an Afghan poetic form. It's described as "an oral and often anonymous scrap of song created by and for mostly illiterate people." Formally,..." more
Thursday, September 8, 2016 9:22:39 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled The Straight Poop on Who Pooped in Central Park?:
Tricia said, "Way back in 2009 I wrote a post entitled Low-Brow Topics That Make For High-Brow Reading. Here's how it began.*****On Tuesday I finally threw up my hands in frustration over the proliferation of "boys don't read" articles in the last few months...." more
Thursday, September 8, 2016 9:22:39 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Friday - September:
Tricia said, "Today I'm sharing an aptly titled poem by William Wordsworth.Septemberby William WordsworthDeparting summer hath assumedAn aspect tenderly illumed,The gentlest look of spring;That calls from yonder leafy shadeUnfaded, yet prepared to fade,A timely..." more
Monday, September 5, 2016 5:40:14 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Englyn Penfyr:
Tricia said, "Since I've just been working on Welsh poetic forms, I thought I'd continue on with another Welsh form this week. The Englyn penfyr is a poetic form consisting of any number of tercets. In each stanza, the lines are composed of ten and..." more
Thursday, September 1, 2016 9:56:14 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Poetry Seven Write Clogyrnach:
Tricia said, "This month the Poetry Seven crew wrote in the form of the clogyrnach (clog-IR-nach). The clogyrnach is a Welsh poetic meter that falls under the poetic form of awdl (odes). They are composed of any number of 6-line stanzas. Each..." more
Monday, August 29, 2016 12:47:12 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Haiku Sonnet:
Tricia said, "Hello all! I'm back after a bit of a hiatus and hopefully am in the swing of things now that we are in week 2 of the fall semester.The haiku sonnet is a form developed by David Marshall, an English teacher and writer living in Chicago and blogging..." more
Monday, August 15, 2016 6:00:43 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Espinela:
Tricia said, "The Espinela is a Spanish poetic form composed of 10 lines, each written in eight syllables. It is named for the poet Vicentre Espinel who created the form. Here are the guidelines writing an espinela.The first stanza is a quatrain with the rhyme..." more
Wednesday, December 28, 2016 8:25:21 PM
Tricia Stohr-Hunt wrote a blog post titled Monday Poetry Stretch - Somonka:
Tricia said, "Christmas is over, but Hanukkah is still going strong. The new year is just around the corner. I'd like to write about endings and beginnings, so a form written from two perspectives sounds like a good idea.The somonka is a Japanese form..." more