About
Mission
Big Tent Poetry aims to create a fun, inspiring, motivational and supportive community for poets at all levels of writing. In addition to a weekly writing “Prompt” and a weekly “Come One, Come All” gathering for poets to share their work, Big Tent Poetry provides writing challenges, revision activities, columns and reviews.
Ringleaders
Carolee Sherwood is a poet, painter, mixed-media artist and Zumba instructor. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and their three sons.
This Deb Scott (there are many of us) is from Portland, Oregon where she writes poetry and prose and snaps pictures of anything that catches her eye. She shares a home with a husband, dog, several cats and lots of backyard birds.
Jill Crammond is a poet, artist and teacher, funding her writing habit by running a children’s art studio/gallery in Upstate New York.
History
The founders of Big Tent Poetry became acquainted in 2006 through the popular prompt site Poetry Thursday and, from 2007 to 2010, were members of the creative team that produced Read Write Poem (RWP).
In March 2010, when it was announced that the poetry community would lose RWP, Carolee, Deb and Jill decided to create a new place on the Internet for poets to supplement their writing practices and motivate/support one another. The tent flaps opened in May on the heels of April madness.
In May 2011 we decided we needed to refocus our writing energy, even though we love the circus & all our participants. So we sadly closed the curtains, but left the posters up as a way to keep a record of the poetry and the resources.
We know we will miss you, so invite you to visit us at our new three-way co-authored blog, A Fine Kettle of Fish.
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