#poetry

Revisioning Revisions

Revisions are, in my opinion, the hardest part of being a writer. For myself, there are three reasons for this. The most honest one being...

Sestinas are one of the most complex forms of poetry. A sestina is made up of six six-line stanzas and a three-line stanza at the end....

Ekphrasis poetry, to me, has always been more of an "exercise" poem to help writers engage with imagery. The point of an ekphrasis poem...

Haiku is, perhaps, the shortest type of poetry that has a set structure. That structure being three lines where the first and last lines...

It's officially been a week since my older brother got married, so it seemed fitting that the week following this wonderful event, I...

Anyone who knows me know that I am not a nature-y person. I am very much a homebody. I appreciate the beauty that nature gives us, but,...

At the core of it, letter poetry is just a poem that you write as if it were a letter to someone (or, in some cases, something)....

This week I explored the epitaph poem. This is a poem that is intended to mourn the death of a loved one and (according to the...