poetry exercises – Chris Bevens

On Writing Poems – part 3 – stealing

[Originally posted December 2021, shared here again for National Poetry Month 2024; also including mention of fundraising for suicide prevention.] Stealing. In part one I wrote about poetry as a practice, and touched on using your body as an instrument in that practice. Part two was about facing the blank page, and using a simpleContinue reading “On Writing Poems – part 3 – stealing”

On Writing Poems – part 4 – Copying

I’ve already proposed you should steal. Now I’m going to encourage you to copy. A lesson I think is quite valuable to keep in mind when attempting to write poetry is to look at other crafts, other arts, and other pursuits for inspiration in regards to systems and ways of thinking, and of process. Let’sContinue reading “On Writing Poems – part 4 – Copying”