This gladdened my OWN heart, made me feel committed to my own growth and positivity and progress as well. Your poetry always has a way of lifting the spirits of its readers.
This resonates with me, having that one special, private place where you can reliably go to think things through and ponder the greater questions of life. Even if the thoughts turned over in your mind don't necessarily come from the brightest of moods. I know that fatigue in some form or another is affecting most of us right now, as winter sets in, and our futures feel uncertain. But tell your character, or yourself, not to give up on that great mind just yet!
I'm not sure what it's called but it's the same sort of material used for print stamps. Not wood block. I have thought about selling on Etsy, but I don't have time with school. I'm glad you like it, thanks:)
This is freaking phenomenal!!! My roommate is an art major and they are also working with printmaking. Did you use wood carving or something of the sort to make this?? Also, are you going to make an Etsy to sell? You totally should. I would love to see more on YWP if you continue to work with it!
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!! :)
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! :)
This gladdened my OWN heart, made me feel committed to my own growth and positivity and progress as well. Your poetry always has a way of lifting the spirits of its readers.
This resonates with me, having that one special, private place where you can reliably go to think things through and ponder the greater questions of life. Even if the thoughts turned over in your mind don't necessarily come from the brightest of moods. I know that fatigue in some form or another is affecting most of us right now, as winter sets in, and our futures feel uncertain. But tell your character, or yourself, not to give up on that great mind just yet!
I'm not sure what it's called but it's the same sort of material used for print stamps. Not wood block. I have thought about selling on Etsy, but I don't have time with school. I'm glad you like it, thanks:)
This is freaking phenomenal!!! My roommate is an art major and they are also working with printmaking. Did you use wood carving or something of the sort to make this?? Also, are you going to make an Etsy to sell? You totally should. I would love to see more on YWP if you continue to work with it!
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!! :)
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