30 Days to Your First Poetry Chapbook.
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For better or verse, you've always written poetry. Or dabbled in it.
No one ever took you seriously. But one day (you thought), you could be the next Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou.
Well, you can. And it all starts with your very first chapbook.
This is a month of tips, a trainer at your shoulder, 40 years of writing tips squeezed densely into these pages to walk you through your first poetry chapbook. Stem to stern, from creation of your title, your theme and topics, to polishing and revising your golden words of prose.
Stop dreaming and start writing today!
Vince Iuliano
Freelance writer. Staunch crusader for truth, justice and the American Way..(writes under various names. You could be reading me right now, and not know it!)
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30 Days to Your First Poetry Chapbook. - Vince Iuliano
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The old dictum to ‘write about what you know’ seems never to be more true than ever when you’re creating original poetry. There is a caveat though. When you enter into a poem, you emerge a changed person. Things will occur to you as you add lines, revise your work, move lines around like furniture that never entered your mind with the first germ of an idea.
Too, there are as many ways to write a poem as there are people. None of these is written in stone. You may have found ideas and methods that work beautifully for you that another poet may have discounted as trite or un-workable.
Finally, I set these notes down not because I’m a world –renowned poet or people are clamoring for my work. I set them down because people who have read my work have written to me: I would like to do that.
Where do I start?
What sort of method do you use?
I set these notes down to help in any small way that I can.
Almost 40 years ago I lay in bed reading a book about writing fiction that seemed wild and un probable.
I remember being so furious with the author’s methods that I flung the book across the room (something - as a book lover- I had never done before). The book was an instruction book about writing popular fiction. Its author was Dean Koontz.
I’ve studied thousands of books on writing process since – from poet Judson Jerome and author Nancy Kress , Stephen Vincent Benet, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Lillian Ross, and innumerable