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Word Play! Jodi Egerton on Improvisation games and the power of surprise.
Now and again, I find myself in a rut. I recognize it in my prose, where I write long sentences with semi-colons and similar syntactical patterns on either side. I recognize it in my poetry, where I...
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No Abandoned Cow: Ada Limón on Poetry & the American Road
Milkweed Editions, October 2010. For the most part, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t mean with poetry, or with prose, but with life. Most days, there’s a devilish beast at the bottom...
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How To Pay For Poetry: Rita Mae Reese
When I was a student in a Master’s program, I found I’d been accepted into a prestigious program for fiction and had also gotten a fellowship at another brand new program in poetry. I went to my...
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Rosanna Stevens On Sex in a Shed in an Orchard, and what you can learn by...
University of Queensland Press, 1999. There’s this book of poetry I take with me to every single poetry workshop I run. It’s Steven Herrick’s young adult poetry novella, A PLACE LIKE THIS. My mum...
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Amy May Nunn: A dyslexic poet, and the wrongness/rightness of words
I couldn’t read until I was 9 years old, I stared at the words and imagined all sorts of things, longingly filling in the blanks for myself. I pretended to read out loud, I loved the sound of words and...
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Pride Week: T. J. Garcia On Being Queer and Writing About Everything Else
While I was in university studying for my BA, I took an introductory class on the LGBT movement, which covered about 115 years of history over the course of four weeks. When, about halfway through the...
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Pride Week: ReVerse Butcher Features Collage Poetry
THE REVENGE – ReVerse Butcher (2012) ReVerse Butcher’s collage poetry style is one that hybridizes cut-up theory, erasure poetry, plundergraphic theory and other experimental writing techniques such as...
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Pride Week: ReVerse Butcher on Sticking To Your Subjectives
Today we feature a spoken word performance excerpt by ReVerse Butcher during her feature poet set at the Dan O’Connell (Melbourne, Australia) poetry reading on 11th of May 2013. The poem, STICK TO YOUR...
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Pride Week: Emma Haller
Featured today is cool-cat Emma Haller and her poem, DRIFTING. Below we have a conversation about poetry and how sexuality inspires Haller’s poetry. Here at Metre Maids love having discussions...
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Pride Week: Fury’s Top 5 Poets
To round off the Metre Maid’s celebration of all things PRIDE & all things POETIC, the amazingly talented and charming FURY gives us a delicious eye-feast that is her TOP 5 FAV POETS. So all you...
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