365 Days of Writing at Writing Knights

Azriel Johnson, at Writing Knights, has started a year-long series of exercises for how to write poetry (but also somewhat applicable to other types of creative writing), with a post every day, starting the beginning of May. (The series is also reposted at NEOpoets.org).  So far, the series has gotten to week eight.
If you want to learn poetry-- or if you're already a poet, but might like some exercises as a tune-up-- or if you just like to read about poetry-- check it out.

• Introduction: a Pretentious Attempt at Instruction
• Introduction: Your Own Form
• Week One: Originality
• Week Two: Emotional Content
• Week Three: Habituation
• Week Four: Expression
• Week Five: Form Poetry
• Week Six: Free Verse Poetry
• Week Seven: Enjambment
• Week Eight: Prose Poetry
• Week Nine: Caesura
• Week Ten: Focus and Emphasis
• Week Eleven: Rhyming
• Week Twelve: Alliteration
• Week Thirteen: Assonance
• Week Fourteen: Meter
• Week Fifteen: Showing vs Telling
• Week Sixteen: Using Your Senses
• Week Seventeen: Colors
• Week Eighteen: Actions
• Week Nineteen: Details
• Week Twenty: Using Stronger Words
• Week Twenty-one: Profanity & Slang
• Week Twenty-two: Self-Censorship & Intention
• Week Twenty-three: Metaphor vs Simile
• Week Twenty-four: Academic Poetry
• Week Twenty-five: Nature
• Week Twenty-six: Intellectual Content
• Week Twenty-seven: Internal Editor
• Week Twenty-eight: Underground-Street
• Week Twenty-nine: Lyrics
• Week Thirty: Juxtaposition

Link to the entire series
alternate link (NEOpoets)

New Monthly Poetry Salon

Pudding House Salon

Poetry Workshop in Cleveland

Pudding House Salon brings its dynamic workshop to Cleveland, where intermediate and advanced poets find mutual support, critique and development. Following the longstanding Columbus Pudding House Salon, every month we’ll do read-around, share poetry news, hone mic skills and scout publication opportunities. Afternoon intensive critique focuses on strengths and weaknesses of each poem and asks, has the poet dropped down into the deepest level to which the poem calls?

Pudding House is the largest literary small press in the U.S. with over 1,000 titles in print. Beginning this September, Cleveland Salon runs every second Saturday of the month at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Coventry Village library in Cleveland Heights, from 9:30 a.m. till 4 p.m., facilitated by longtime Columbus Salon member Sammy Greenspan*.

There is a nominal fee for the eleven-month series, (some need-based partial scholarships available). No required degrees or publication list. To determine if this workshop is a good fit, please submit three of your best poems and any questions to:

sammygreenspan@mindspring.com

One word

I love this site -- it's a great 1 minute writing exercise to wake up the mind. No fair cheating and taking more than the ascribed minute. Yesterday's word was SCARF. Below, my response.

Draped about her neck, scrunched up against the cold, colorful silk or wrapped about the hair tying every strand out of sight. What scarf do you wear to go out in the cold? What keeps you warm and tells the world who you are?

http://oneword.com/