by joannezc | May 20, 2018 | Reading poetry
Through my junior high and high school years, my poems were very religious, reflecting my strict Catholic upbringing. My senior year creative writing teacher pointed that fact out to me after reviewing my portfolio. She also ridiculed one of my religious poems in...
by joannezc | May 18, 2018 | Thoughts
Forget for a moment the rules of prosody and other constraints placed upon the poets of the past. Forget that Shakespeare composed 154 sonnets predominately in iambic pentameter. Forget that the Romanticists used rhyme in their lofty odes. Just think! Do your thoughts...
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