Category Archives: Lessons

LESSON 58

Today’s lesson is all about utilizing, to the benefit of the poem, poetic techniques.  Many [...]

LESSON 57 – When Nothing Inspires You

For many years, I taught for New York State Poets in Public Service.  I taught [...]

LESSON 56

To be a poet, you need to think like a poet.  How, you may ask, [...]

LESSON 55

The lesson this week is really a very simple one.  I would ask you to [...]

LESSON 54 – POETRY HEALS

Poetry is a way of learning how to deal with life’s issues, with defining yourself [...]

LESSON 53

This week’s lesson is really very simple.  Simply, write a poem about what you love [...]

LESSON 52

One of the ways to find a way into yourself, is by “placing yourself inside [...]

LESSON 51

There is no bad time to write poetry though to be perfectly honest, there are [...]

LESSON 50

If we write what we feel, feel what we write, we usually come up with [...]

LESSON 49

The poem begins, not with words on paper or on your computer screen, but as [...]