HuffPo’s Oddball Poetry Contest
Jason Linkins, over at Huffington Post, challenges us to write poetry using an odd combination of words: FUN FACT: Our blog software has four alternate suggestions for the word “tchotchkes,” which it...
View ArticleHappy National Punctuation Day — Two Days Late
Somehow I managed to miss National Punctuation Day on Sept 24th. “Shame on me!” Oh my — I just used an exclamation point! And I did it again! As you can tell from my limerick, I’m not a big fan of the...
View ArticleA Limerick Loser’s Lament
Congratulations to all the Washington Post Style Invitational limerick contest winners! (This is the contest I mentioned previously, where B-rhyme lines were provided.) No, I didn’t win anything or...
View ArticleDear Emily Dickinson, Please Forgive Me
As part of its National Poetry Month and Poem In Your Pocket Day “Envelope Project” celebrations, New York City is running an Emily Dickinson related poetry contest. Basically, it involves writing your...
View ArticleQueasy About Quaterns
Every once in a while I like to experiment with a new (to me) form. Today, it’s the quatern. Writer’s Digest’s Poetic Asides Blog, which is holding a quatern contest, describes the form as follows:...
View ArticleWhat NOT To Say To A Limerick Contest Judge (Limerick)
There are some things you should NEVER say to someone who’s judging a limerick (or other poetry) contest. So I was amused to read that Pat Myers (who presides over the weekly Washington Post Style...
View ArticleFitting A Limerick On Twitter Ain’t Easy!
Oy! The contortions I had to go through to fit a meta-limerick about NPR’s poetry-tweet contest into a tweet! I HATE the 140-character (including hashtag) limit! GRRR! This limerick looked perfectly...
View ArticleLimerick-Off Monday – Rhyme Word: SCENE or SEEN or OBSCENE at the end of any...
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a...
View ArticleLimerick-Off Monday – Rhyme Word: BEAR or BARE at the end of any one line...
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a...
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