It's the year of Music Challenges at WEP, and for the month of June the prompt is based on Please Read the Letter by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - a break up song and a moving plea for understanding at the termination of a relationship. I haven't ventured too far, talking about walking away in the form of a poem. …
Writing to the End-IWSG June 1
Hello Fellow Writers How's the writing going? I love the first Wednesday of every month when I take an overview of my writing journey, thanks to the wonderful Insecure Writer's Support Group (IWSG) started by the Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh. He explains the beginning and purpose of the group in this comprehensive post here. I …
Good Intentions by Kasim Ali
Book: Good Intentions Author: Kasim Ali Publisher: 4THESTATE About the Author: Kasim Ali works in publishing and has previously been shortlisted for Hachette's Mo Siewcharran Prize, longlisted for the 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize and has contributed to The Good Journal. He lives in London. My reading of Good Intentions Nur and Yasmina are …
IWSG May 2022- Writing Highs/Lows
After a month of poetry during NaPoWriMo it's back to business. This year I enrolled or rather clubbed three challenges- the A to Z Challenge, Blogchatter's A2Z and NaPoWriMo. It was a bad idea. I did not have the time and energy to read blogs from all three challenges and I was mostly looking for …
On Poets and Poetry
It's Day Thirty! Elated at having written every single day of April. Thankful to Maureen Thorson for the spirit of NaPWriMo. The final (but still optional!) prompt is to write a cento. This is a poem that is made up of lines taken from other poems. If you’d like to dig into an in-depth example, …
a gift is a ZINGY thing!
Day Twenty-nine at NaPoWriMo. The prompt for the day is to write a poem in which you muse on the gifts you received at birth — whether they are actual presents, like a teddy bear, or talents – like a good singing voice – or circumstances – like a kind older brother, as well as …
A Hundred Quills 