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Sideshow: Tactics for Sneaky Poets

January 12, 2011
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Robert Peake, Big Tent Poetry Sideshow Barker

Robert has captured 17 “creative exercises designed to demonstrate various “tactics” that poets can use to be “sneaky” with themselves in the creative process–to outwit the negative critic and analytical mind, and keep on keeping on in a free, creative space. While none of these ideas are are “new” in any universal sense, they are all tried-and-true techniques that have helped me along in my own creative process.”

Click on the excerpt to read the entire article. Check our About page for a list of Sideshow Barkers, friends of Big Tent Poetry who are generous enough to share with us their columns, interviews and reviews. There is no set schedule for these appearances; willy-nilly is a symptom of creative genius!

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Sideshow: Need a little poetic advice?

May 11, 2010
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Welcome to the sideshow tent for everything you wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask! Oh, boy! Our fearless sideshow barker Robert Peake is ready to answer your poetry-related questions! He will answer one each month over at his blog, and we’ll cast our spotlight on it from here with an excerpt and a link. We can’t wait!

Send your questions to: advice (at) bigtentpoetry (dot) org. The door is open!

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