DID YOU KNOW?
Poets are the best writers of stories for children aged 2- 8 ?
Yup, and songwriters are poets too!
Mainstream Poetry Types
ABC / AcrosticBallad / Ballade / Blank verse/ Bio / Burlesque Carpe diem / Cinquain / Classicism /Couplet Dramatic monologueElegy / Epic / Epigram / Epitaph / Epithalamium Free verse (vers libre) Ghazal / Haiku / Horatian ode Iambic pentameter / Idyll (Idyl)Irregular (Pseudo-Pindaric or Cowleyan) odeItalian sonnet Lay / Limerick / List / LyricMemoriam stanza Name / Narrative OdePastoral / Petrarchan / Pindaric ode QuatrainRhyme / Rhyme royal / Romanticism / RondeauSenryu / Sestina / Shakespearean / Shape / Sonnet Tanka / Terza Rima Verse / Villanelle
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Contests
http://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca
http://www.canauthorsniagara.org
http://www.ocl.net/projects/poetrycontest/
http://www.utmostchristianwriters.com/
http://www.utmostchristianwriters.ca/poetry-contest/poetry-contest.php
Submission calls at:
Rhythm Poetry Magazine
2 River
ARC Poetry magazine
Why are we not in Paradise
Flex your poetry muscles
What type of poetry do you think this falls under?
POET PLACES
Toolkit for Poets PoeWar American Poets Org Canadian Federation of Poets Canadian Poetry Association League of Canadian Poets http://www.poemhunter.com/poets/http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/index.html http://www.musesmuse.com/berkleemusic-songwriting.html http://www.musesmuse.com
Toolkit for Poets
PoeWar
American Poets Org
Canadian Federation of Poets
Canadian Poetry Association
League of Canadian Poets
http://www.poemhunter.com/poets/http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/index.html
http://www.musesmuse.com/berkleemusic-songwriting.html
http://www.musesmuse.com
Contact Donna Blanke at dunnvilleareawritersgroup@gmail.com if you would like to be invited to a poetry meeting.