by Carolee, Deb & Jill It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — oh, it’s getting hot in here! — or any other inspiration from the week. (We love it when you write to our prompt, but we also love it when you write on...
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An interview with Ren Powell, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker 10 questions: poetry & technology (an interview series by Nic Sebastian at Very Like a Whale) I love that language can be presented on the page with clauses that have to be seen and connected in the mind, that a metaphor about grief can...
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There. In the lower navigation bar (the light one). We have a new page:  Beyond the Big Top. (Meaning external resources!) That’s right. You have all sorts of resources at your fingertips, thanks to Elizabeth Switaj who took this (not small!) project on for her own. Thank you, Elizabeth! And while the comments are...
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This week’s prompt What turns you on? You don’t have to tell me. No. Really. You really don’t have to tell me. But for this week’s poem, write about aphrodisiacs. This may or may not be the right time for your narrator to confess what gets her, um, going. It may be more fun...
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by Carolee, Deb & Jill It’s show time! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s prompt — seems Wordles are loved by all! — or any other inspiration from the week. (We love it when you write to our prompt, but we also love it when you write on...
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A column by Ren Powell, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker There are art objects that serve an of-this-world utilitarian purpose, be it drinking tea or shaping ideology. They provide us with an aesthetic and often intellectual experience. And there are art experiences, where the art object itself becomes or conjures a metaphor: the vehicle...
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