The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog

One of the things I tell poets in my workshop groups is that it’s a good idea to avoid using “ing” words. This, of cou...

One of the things you’ll hear in poetry workshops is to “cut the clutter” and that too many prepositional phrases can weaken a poem....

I’m happy to introduce you to this week’s guest blogger, Ken Ronkowitz, and to a form of poem called the ronka that he invented....

I'm so happy to share the news that a publication date of  December 7, 2014 has been set for my new book, a collection of 53 prose...

The first time I read William Carlos Williams’ famous poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,”   I thought it was silly. A red wheelbarrow besid...

Today marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Every year on the solstice, I read some o...

Perhaps you’ve heard of “If” poems? These are poems characterized by conditional clauses (“if clauses”). Such clauses can be used to g...