Speak Up Press http://speakuppress.org Mon, 14 May 2012 14:23:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Words, Words, Words http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/14/words-words-words/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/14/words-words-words/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 14:23:52 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=749 Collect words and develop a rich vocabulary...save words for just the right place in your writing...be patient, this process will take years.

]]> http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/14/words-words-words/feed/ 0 Writing Challenge http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/08/writing-challenge-2/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/08/writing-challenge-2/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 13:10:55 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=745 Continue reading →]]> Write only the first sentence of a short story. The challenge is to make the sentence so compelling that the reader has to go on. What's the most important word? The verb? A noun? An adjective? Share your process with us.

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]]> http://speakuppress.org/2012/05/01/sonnet-for-spring/feed/ 0 Last Poetry Month Post http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/26/last-poetry-month-post/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/26/last-poetry-month-post/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:11:17 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=737 As National Poetry Month comes to a close...try this idea from the Academy of American Poets: "select a poem you love, carry it with you, then share it with co-workers, family, and friends".

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a spring nap
downstream cherry trees
in bud"
From HAIKU TECHNIQUES by Jane Reichhold in THE NEW WRITER'S HANDBOOK 2007 edited by Philip Martin

]]> http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/18/practice-haiku/feed/ 0 National Poetry Month http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/10/national-poetry-month/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/10/national-poetry-month/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:23:46 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=729 Celebrate National Poetry Month! Check out this global poem for change...

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]]> http://speakuppress.org/2012/04/03/watch-for-new-edition/feed/ 0 In Poetry http://speakuppress.org/2012/03/27/in-poetry/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/03/27/in-poetry/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:38:36 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=706 Check out this great interview with Kevin Prufer in the Kenyon Review.
    Interview with Kevin Prufer

One of his core beliefs..."In poetry: something ought to be happening in the white space."

]]> http://speakuppress.org/2012/03/27/in-poetry/feed/ 0 A Refuge http://speakuppress.org/2012/03/20/a-refuge/ http://speakuppress.org/2012/03/20/a-refuge/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:36:08 +0000 gbryant http://speakuppress.org/?p=703 "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." W. Somerset Maugham

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