The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog

I’ve heard it called “Some Kind of Language Poetry,” “Neo-Poetry,” “Out Poetry,” “That Tripe Younger Poets Are Writi...

Years ago, when I was a teenager living home with my parents, there was always a card table set up in a corner of our sun po...

As summer draws to a close and autumn begins, there’s a familiar feeling of seasonal change in the air. That turned my thinking to cha...

  As poets, we’ve all experienced the routines that become ruts in our writing—we become stuck in a bog of repeated subjects, themes, ...

             This week let’s take a look at blame. We all feel guilty at one point or another, and we all accept or assign bl...

Sometimes prompt ideas evolve in the most unexpected ways. I was reading Diane Lockward’s new book, The Crafty Poet A Portable Workshop...

The process of writing a poem is a process of reflection. Many, if not most, poems are reflections on one subject or another. This ...