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Learn how Jane Hirshfield’s “Almond, Rabbit” can inspire your own writing through consequence, perspective, and restraint in this month’s poetry writing lessons.

This month’s Poetry Writing Lessons post dives into Denise Duhamel’s playful “Poem in Which I Press Fast Forward.” Learn how to use parallel phrasing, couplets, and compressed time to generate new work. Perfect inspiration for November’s writing life—or as a prompt for the Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge.

We’ve wrapped up Week 2 of the Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge. In this post I check-in with a reflection and bonus material with a perspective twisting prompt!

A sneak peek at the Gentle 30-Day Writing Challenge starting November 1! Learn how micro-writing can keep your creativity alive with short daily practices—and grab the free downloadable workbook when it launches.

Discover poetry writing lessons from Sara Eliza Johnson’s "Fable." Learn how associative leaps, layered imagery, and sound create mystery in poetry—and try a guided exercise of your own.

Best laid plans I had great plans for May. Having plans should have been my first clue that life would throw me a curve ball or four. And...

February is here. A short month with a lot on its shoulders. We have Valentine's Day, which, no matter your feelings on the holiday, can...

I’ve had a recurring nightmare since I was in kindergarten. The dream is inextricably linked to a trip my Brownie troop took. I don’t...

Throughout our lives, we experience Extraordinary things, events, people, and places. Just as I think of creative masterpieces and...

Description is one of the foundational elements of writing. Basic sentence structure and grammar help readers understand your writing,...

When we cover clichés in my English class, I explain they’re shortcuts used to convey an experience, feeling, or set of feelings to...

When your work involves being creative, it's hard to come up with new ideas day after day, hour after hour. To maintain a creative life,...

Here's a photo prompt for the week. What happens when two people see each other for the first time? Love? Hate? Fear? Envy? For me, this...

If you've ever struggled with what to write, whether in a journal, a poem, a story, a blog post, or even as part of a creative nonfiction...

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with an unhappy person.  This person is angry at someone else, and I got caught in the...

Today I had the privilege of spending time in one of my favorite places with my favorite people: a community creativity workshop.  This...

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

Maybe you've been lucky and never drawn a blank when sitting down to write. But if you're like me (and most people), you've sat and...

One of the best things about being writers is that we get to play with reality. When we craft fiction, poetry, and even creative...