Poet's Classroom
In August 2008, we posted our first installment of the Poet's Classroom series. Violet Nesdoly was our first paid columnist, providing us with monthly columns until June 2010. In August 2010, Susan Plett took up the post of monthly columnist, continuing until August 2011. As of September 2011, we are unsure of the future of this series.
The Poet's Classroom columns were provided exclusively for Utmost Christian Writers, and are made available freely for online reading.
These columns may not be used elsewhere without the written consent of the copyright holders.
Poet's Classroom Sessions:
Finding Your Voice: Part 2 August 1, 2011
Finding Your Voice: Part 1 July 2011
Making Music With Your Words June 2011
Lean Into the Heat May 2011
Lose Your Favorite Lines April 2011
Whatever Gets You to the Page March 2011
Dinner With a Poet February 2011
The Power of the Sustained Metaphor January 2011
You Can't Teach Poetry? December 2010
Add to the Beauty November 2010
Present Tense and the Poet October 2010
Your Reader is Your Creative Partner September 2010
Titling Your Work August 2010
Capture Your Summer with an Ode June 2010
Inject New Life Into Poems of Faith May 2010
Writing Poetry of the Spirit April 2010
Pantoum—A Dance With Words March 2010
The Sonnet—a little marvel of poetry February 2010
Shorter, Shortest January 2010
Short December 2009
The Villanelle November 2009
The Sound of a Poem October 2009
Assigned Reading for Poets September 2009
Handcraft Those Lines August 2009
Nature Poetry July 2009
How to Find the Poetry Contest that is Best for You June 2009
Poems for Mom May 2009
Read Me a Poem April 2009
Transform Your Stories into Poems March 2009
Poetic Voice Lessons: Lesson Two February 2009
Poetic Voice Lessons: Lesson One January 2009
Write a Christmas Poem December 2008
Give Poetry for Christmas November 2008
Research: Dietary Supplement for your Poems October 2008
Accessible Poetry and Poets September 2008
Who'd Want to Read Your Poems? August 2008