Poetry+Writing+Exercises

==Introduction to Poetry == Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

Think of poetry not as a puzzle you have to decipher, but as a new and exciting way to express your self!

Here are some useful links: [|Five Poetry Writing Exercises] [|Glossary of Poetic Terms]