by Carolee, Deb & Jill It’s show time! It’s our first “Starts-Friday-But-Lasts-All-Weekend-Come-one-Come-all” gathering! It’s time to post your original poem, written in response to Monday’s wonderful prompt 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 a whim....
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A column by James Brush, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker What I like about making poems—about writing, really—is that process of discovery and feeling of channeling things from somewhere else that I then share with others. When I go back and read something I’ve written that’s actually good and brings me or someone else...
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A column by Dave Bonta, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker I speculated on the effect of reading this much poetry in a month: “Will it be mind-altering? Almost certainly. Will it change the way I read poetry? Maybe. Will it prove to be an overdose, and send me rushing naked and screaming into the...
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We’re thrilled this week to be posting — already! — two articles written by our sideshow barkers. (One is here, below. One will publish tomorrow!) And while we won’t always do so much hand-holding, we are proud as lions about our new space and don’t mind showing you around a bit. The articles from...
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A column by Sage Cohen, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker The good news is this: no one needs to care about poetry other than you. And though inspiration may not directly fill your bank account, it will fill your sails. Who knows — passion may have an even greater, untapped earning potential than that...
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We’re so glad you found us and hope you might be 1) recovered from the daily poem writing madness that is NaPoWriMo, 2) not quite recovered but game to see what this new poetry prompt site is about or 3) chomping at the bit to get back to your weekly poetry habit after sitting...
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