Category Archives: Lessons

LESSON 48 – Bring the Memory to Life

Poetry to be well written, must be deeply felt.  It is easy to pen the [...]

LESSON 47 – WHY I WRITE POETRY

I think, one of the best lessons I ever conducted, was with a small group [...]

LESSON 46

Poetry happens when inspiration takes us to places, we have never been before.  Poetry happens [...]

LESSON 45 – BECOMING THE POEM

I had a wonderful poetry mentor who used to say, you can’t separate yourself from [...]

LESSON 44 – HOW TO CREATE AN IMAGE

One of the most common problems I see, when viewing poems by students or sent [...]

LESSON 43

The main problem we all have as writers is, writing!  Finding the time is a [...]

LESSON 42 – LET THE MOMENT INSPIRE YOU

One of the consistent questions I get, when conducting a workshop or at a book [...]

LESSON 41 – ALL ABOUT RHYME – AGAIN!

“The coolness of the night Refreshes my skin. The stars shine so bright, Causing me [...]

LESSON 40

I often wonder how poetry found me or, how I found poetry.  I often ask [...]

LESSON 39 – ONE WORD AT A TIME

The very simplest definition of poetry is the fewest possible words in the best possible [...]