Joyce Fetteroll

Okay, now I'm curious after all the discussion about the reasons for
asking and the hints that people had some favorites :-)

What are your favorite poetry writing resources? I'm asking for
myself, though some of it trickles out to Kat too. I don't love
poetry (as one might classify it in school) but I do love playing
with words and ideas and poets do that more succinctly than
novelists :-)

So I'm asking more about the craft of it and helping others explore
playing around with words. Every April I put up some poetry prompts
for National Poetry Month on my writing blog that I have a lot of fun
with.

(If anyone's interested it's at:

http://dragonwritingprompts.blogspot.com/

You can click on Poetry and Poetry warm ups on the right.)

A couple of books I've really liked are:

Kenneth Koch's Wishes, Lies and Dreams

Lots and lots of ideas for playing with ideas and words. Very simple
exercises he did with inner city kids in New York that inspired some
fun and profound poetry.

Also Rose, Where Did You Get that Red?

which is using the form and ideas of famous poems for inspiration by
kids.

There was another book too that he did from programs run in a senior
center.

Joyce

Pamela Sorooshian

On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Joyce Fetteroll wrote:

> So I'm asking more about the craft of it and helping others explore
> playing around with words. Every April I put up some poetry prompts
> for National Poetry Month on my writing blog that I have a lot of fun
> with.


Susan Wooldridge -- "Poemcrazy" (She probably has other publications,
but I don't know about those.)

She used to come to the HSC conferences and do workshops. Awesome
inspiration and support for getting our creativity out.

-pam

k

I've never used it but I've heard raves in the past about a book called
Writing Down the Bones.

~Katherine


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Mara

I read it many years ago and thought it was pretty good. Another one I liked was Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet, and Aristoteles: Poetics which was required reading in my film class. Those were a long time ago so I don't remember much, just that I enjoyed them. My favorite (for writing screenplays, not so much poetry) was The Writer's Journey, based on Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Mara


--- On Sat, 9/20/08, k <katherand@...> wrote:

> From: k <katherand@...>
> Subject: Re: [unschoolingbasics] Poetry
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 2:02 PM
> I've never used it but I've heard raves in the past
> about a book called
> Writing Down the Bones.
>
> ~Katherine
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Robin Bentley

...and subtitled, "Freeing the Writer Within," it's by Natalie
Goldberg. Excellent book.

She also has audio books available for download or on CD at http://store.soundstrue.com/goldbergn.html
There are many authors and poets there, including Julia Cameron,
author of "The Artist's Way" mentioned before.

Robin B.

On Sep 20, 2008, at 11:02 AM, k wrote:

> I've never used it but I've heard raves in the past about a book
> called
> Writing Down the Bones.
>
> ~Katherine