As for your question, I believe you're asking about authors, but I'm reading this before having my morning iced chai so I'm also assuming you're referring to words- I'll give both!
Allen Ginsberg, Mary Oliver, Richard Siken, Walt Whitman, and Sylvia Plath were the authors who particularly influenced my growth. For more slam/button poetry, I'm a huge fan of Neil Hilborn and Rudy Francisco. Even though these are more famous people, I deeply admire the older members of my poetry club. Feeding off of their ideas and learning so much from them is an experience that has drastically improved my writing maturity and confidence in the span of these few months of college. So peer and friend/group work is a very good resource to improve or have fun with writing in general! I also recommend you go through the famous poet's challenge in YWP and look into some poets you might resonate with!
For words, heavily suggest looking up a word of the day website. Accompanying this, I would do a challenge of finding words that I enjoyed and thought all had a similar vibe, and force myself to put all of them in a poem as a writing exercise to understand the flow and feeling of words. Honestly, just cultivating a list of words that you enjoy and putting them in a book or notes app can help with writing when you feel stumped. Here are some of my faves right now, they are sort of random: archaic, embodiments, emulating, mirage, pious, sanctity, sincerities, resonating, technological, vacancy, varnished, etc...
I hope this helped again! Message me if you want any more words or authors, or just writing stuff in general!! :)
I just posted a new short humor story, but I also just posted book 1 of School Scares. I hope you enjoy it. BTW, I already have them all written and ready to be published.
Thanks for the support, you are so kind to me and everyone else! I am going to do something like a daily poem but then I can also post one of the short stories daily.
Yes, ofc! I'm not really familiar with the Goosebumps Series, I mostly read I Survived, Nancy Drew, Whatever After, and Land of Stories. So your stories would be a great introduction to the series! :)
Hi, I absolutely love your advice! Thanks for the ButtonPoetry Videos advice, I'll be sure to check that out! :)
Btw-thanks for giving me new vocabulary words...loll; jargony, mundane, and adequately are all words I never really knew the meanings of...haha! but now I do :)
Do you think you could share which others helped you grow and mature your writing? Thank you so much! :)
beautiful!!! definitely reminds me of foggy days with the excellent flow. I love the line "I think of my ancestors and their fantasies of streets paved with gold" and the sharp reality of america now. so good:D
Of course!! Always happy to help!
As for your question, I believe you're asking about authors, but I'm reading this before having my morning iced chai so I'm also assuming you're referring to words- I'll give both!
Allen Ginsberg, Mary Oliver, Richard Siken, Walt Whitman, and Sylvia Plath were the authors who particularly influenced my growth. For more slam/button poetry, I'm a huge fan of Neil Hilborn and Rudy Francisco. Even though these are more famous people, I deeply admire the older members of my poetry club. Feeding off of their ideas and learning so much from them is an experience that has drastically improved my writing maturity and confidence in the span of these few months of college. So peer and friend/group work is a very good resource to improve or have fun with writing in general!
I also recommend you go through the famous poet's challenge in YWP and look into some poets you might resonate with!
For words, heavily suggest looking up a word of the day website. Accompanying this, I would do a challenge of finding words that I enjoyed and thought all had a similar vibe, and force myself to put all of them in a poem as a writing exercise to understand the flow and feeling of words. Honestly, just cultivating a list of words that you enjoy and putting them in a book or notes app can help with writing when you feel stumped. Here are some of my faves right now, they are sort of random: archaic, embodiments, emulating, mirage, pious, sanctity, sincerities, resonating, technological, vacancy, varnished, etc...
I hope this helped again! Message me if you want any more words or authors, or just writing stuff in general!! :)
I just posted a new short humor story, but I also just posted book 1 of School Scares. I hope you enjoy it. BTW, I already have them all written and ready to be published.
Thanks for the support, you are so kind to me and everyone else! I am going to do something like a daily poem but then I can also post one of the short stories daily.
Yes, ofc! I'm not really familiar with the Goosebumps Series, I mostly read I Survived, Nancy Drew, Whatever After, and Land of Stories. So your stories would be a great introduction to the series! :)
Hi, I absolutely love your advice! Thanks for the ButtonPoetry Videos advice, I'll be sure to check that out! :)
Btw-thanks for giving me new vocabulary words...loll; jargony, mundane, and adequately are all words I never really knew the meanings of...haha! but now I do :)
Do you think you could share which others helped you grow and mature your writing? Thank you so much! :)
Hey! I just saw your poem, it's such a great piece, and it's really helpful! thanks!! :)
I agree completely!
Thank you!
nice! good similes and election references. It felt like it was a rhyming poem even though it wasn't :D
beautiful!!! definitely reminds me of foggy days with the excellent flow. I love the line "I think of my ancestors and their fantasies of streets paved with gold" and the sharp reality of america now. so good:D