What It Feels Like to Outgrow Your Early Writing (And Why Every Writer Does)
There is a very specific kind of embarrassment that comes with rereading your old writing. It’s almost physical. You open a document, reread a sentence you once loved with your entire chest, and suddenly feel the urge to close the laptop and move to another country.
Different Poetry Styles & What Topics They Work Best With
I’ve laid out the definitions of each poetry type, how to write them, and what topics are usually covered using each genre. That way, if you find yourself writing a poem with a topic that may work well with another style, you can re-write your free verse poem in another style and see which version you like better.
National Poetry Month: What Writing a Poem a Day for All of April is Really Like
In an attempt to both write more poetry, and grow my following on my poetry Instagram, I decided to participate in the Poem A Day challenge. It’s exactly what it sounds; you post one poem per day every day for the entire month of April in celebration of the month.
Citing My Muses: Rupi Kaur & Milk and Honey
She took her art and she ran with it–before Kaur, poetry was even less read and much less accessible because it was considered an artform that only literature connoisseurs were familiar with.