Tag: poem openings

Just Keep Writing: 3 Forms to Re-energize Your Poetry – guest blog post by Jerrod Schwarz

If you have been writing poetry for longer than a few months, you may have experienced this anxiety-inducing scenario: you sit down at the desk, look at the blank page, and nothing happens. You write a line and immediately erase it. You cross out titles. You second guess […]

Immortal Dogs and Anime Songs: Poem Openings and Expectation – guest blog post by Jerrod Schwarz

Not a lot of fuss is made over poem openings today. Sure, we all know that April is the cruelest of the months, and I am sure you secretly (or if you were a truly brave middle schooler, publicly) compared a love interest to a summer's day. But […]

Trish Hopkinson