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WALL OF FAME
We are currently in the process of programming your new Wall of Fame! We want to immortalize you hard working poets with your own section of the site.
MY ACHIEVEMENTS
We are currently building your "My Achievements" page! This page will highlight your individual achievements on the site.
POET HOME PAGE
We are working on updating your home page look and feel. There will be a new area below your picture to highlight your time onsite, your Poet and Reviewer status (new).
We will also be updating your poem listing appearance to match the rest of the site colors and tables.
Read More on Experience Levels Here!
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| Members of the Month |
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Congratulations November Winners! |
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Congratulations Poets! You've earned well-deserved praise.
POET OF THE MONTH:
DONNA G. FOWLER
TOP PERFORMER:
CRJ147
TOP REVIEWER:
ALMA
TOP RATED POET:
ENCOURAGER
All of our winners this month are long standing supporters of our site who earned the right to call themselves "Members of the Month"
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| Featured Site Tool |
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Great Poetry |
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Our Great Poetry section is where we have over 300 of the most beloved poems. Simply select the poet you want to read, and you will be brought to a page featuring representative works.
We have worked very hard at bringing you a great selection of poets to enjoy and to read. However, if there is a poet you would like us to add to our Great Poetry section, please do not hesitate to Contact Us.
Be sure to include the name of the poet you want us to add, and even the poems you'd like us to include. We list up to 3 poems per poet that we represent online.
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| Poetically Speaking |
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Dramatic Monologue |
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A poem representing itself as a speech made by one person to a silent listener, usually not the reader. The term is now mainly used for a poetic form developed and brought to a high standard by Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
A dramatic monologue in this sense has a speaker who is not the poet and who delivers the poem in a clearly defined communication situation. The speaker can be a historical or a fictive person.
The "listener" can be another character who does not speak (as in Browning's "My Last Duchess" , a group of characters (as in that poet's Fra Lippo Lippi), the speaker himself (as in Tennyson's Ulysses), or the reader (as in Browning's Porphyria's Lover).
Listen to another great Dramatic Monologue, T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" , or enjoy the "cousin" of the Dramatic Monologue, the soliloquy.
Trying to change your "voice", by utilizing Dramatic Monologue in your poetry, is a great way to gain insight into other ways you can write your poems. This is a really fun exercise in poetic creativity. Give it a try!
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| Poets Learning Poetry |
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Dream Exercise |
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Many people have recurring dreams - of flying, of being chased, of being in a particular location or situation. Write a poem about such a dream that uses repetition to capture its obsessive nature.
Try to repeat fragments rather than simply initial words or complete sentences; let the repetition interrupt the flow of the dream-story.
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| Poets In Profile |
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Gregory Djanikian |
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Gregory Djanikian was born in 1949 in Alexandria, Egypt, of Armenian parentage. When he was 8 years old, he and his family to Pennsylvania, where he still lives outside of Philadelphia.
Djanikian is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1983. He has published five books poetry: "The Man in the Middle" (1984); "Falling Deeply into America" (1989); "About Distance" (1995); "Years Later" (2000); and "So I Will Till the Ground" (2007).
He is the winner of numerous awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eunice Tietjens Prize and Friends of Literature Award from Poetry magazine and the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center of Columbia University.
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| Site Challenge: Dec. 3 |
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Write An Ecopoem |
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Ecopoetry goes beyond traditional nature poetry to take on distinctly contemporary issues, recognising the interdependence of all life on earth, the wildness and otherness of nature, and the irresponsibility of our attempts to tame and plunder nature.
An Eco poem can dramatise the dangers and poverty of a modern world perilously cut off from nature and ruled by technology, self-interest and economic power, another can take on a range of topics such as: the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe) or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests.
Other poems celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink.
We currently have no Ecopoetry on site...
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