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  • Writing Activities Re: Write the worst poem you can.

    I've been looking for a place to put this poem. Thy beauty is so beauteous Thy booty is so booty-us When thou art away My heart, it feels so gray ...

    Mar 24, 2021
  • Writing Activities Re: Haiku Train

    they have cost themselves everything; they are indebted to the earth and stars.

    Mar 24, 2021
  • Writing Activities Re: Tanka Train

    dull knife cuts cold plums watch how they divide, sink in-- purple skin bloodies bamboo cutting board, how sweet the juice dribbles from my lips.

    Mar 24, 2021
  • Writing Activities Re: Life by Haiku

    and if there were tears they were not shed over you. like leaves, they just fell.

    Mar 24, 2021
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The Poem of the Week

    On First Seeing a U.S. Forest Service Aerial Photo of Where I Live by James Galvin All those poems I wrote About living in the sky Were wrong. I live ...

    Mar 1, 2021
  • Writer's Market Re: Call for poetry and art submissions! COOP Zine

    Submitting to a zine I'm running? I don't see why not! Username: fortis Title: Halftone Strut Submission: sketch1613531673082.png

    Feb 17, 2021
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The Poem of the Week

    As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us Jane Hirshfield As things grow rarer, they enter the ranges of counting. Remain this many Siberian tigers, that many ...

    Feb 5, 2021
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Short Poems

    Here's a little background: My professor gave us a document of 50 short poems to read. He said collecting those poems was a project that he was working on for ...

    Dec 7, 2020
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The Poem of the Week

    [you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

    Dec 7, 2020
  • Poetry Discussion Re: The Poem of the Week

    Kermes Red by Melissa Range Called crimson, called vermilion—“little worm” in both the Persian and the Latin, red eggs for the carmine dye, the insect’s brood crushed stillborn from her ...

    Nov 30, 2020
  • YWS Re: The YWS Big Book of Records

    @Omnom already said it but yeah, I just wanted to also point out the thing about the numbers because if it was just the highest number pad, this is my ...

    Oct 2, 2020
  • YWS Re: The YWS Big Book of Records

    Most Works Posted on YWS [INFO STILL NEEDED, is anyone over 200?] Source: I have 369, though I'm sure there are people with way more than me? 20201001_224716.jpg

    Oct 2, 2020
  • Lounge, The Re: Favorite simple recipes!

    ok I'm trying to meal plan for the week. this is kinda my first time doing this. Please send me all your simple dinner recipes that will still make me ...

    Aug 28, 2020
  • Research Re: Advice on writing child characters

    I remember thinking that The Lost Island of Tamarind wrote a very, very young child well.

    Jul 29, 2020
  • Lounge, The Re: Junior Moderator Thank You

    Thank you so much, JMs! You do so much for us!

    Jul 11, 2020


If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky