Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
And once again, it’s time for an ekphrastic poem. (Yep, it’s fertile ground, and I’m tilling away.) This is an exercise I first gave my students last year for one of our Poetry & Science classes. There are four image snippets that you’ll be looking at, hidden under the buttons marked One, Two, Three and Four. …
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Today’s task is not even slightly original to me, although I can’t remember where I first came across it, sorry! But it is a good challenge for those of you who are still with me. And what is the task, I hear you cry? It is to write an Abnominal – a twenty line poem using …
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We’re now well into the second half of the month. Here in New Zealand the days are markedly shorter, and the trees are all autumnal. (And that’s just since yesterday.) Every time we pass an equinox I get surprised all over again by the way the season seems to gather speed. So, your task today …
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An oldie but a goodie, from Rita Dove via Robin Behn & Chase Twitchell’s The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach – one of the first books I ever bought online, and one I still go back to. As I do to this exercise. The Ten Minute Spill Write a ten line poem that …
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Welcome to Friday Pi-Day! Your task today is to write a poem based on Piphilology – the creation of mnemonic phrases to help you remember the digits of π. (For those of you who have forgotten your mathematics, π is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.) The standard Piphilology approach is to …
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A Dark Feathered Art 