Knowing how to make money writing poetry is essential if you are a modern day poet. Although poetry these days is not as popular as it was before in ages past, it still has a specific market where you can work upon to earn money and improve your skills.

The fall of poetry started when [...]

Top author and poet Michael Rosen, says that when writing poetry you should write about something that matters to you. Rosen goes on to say: “That does not mean it has to be something very serious or sad – it could be something very funny or very odd or a bit mysterious. As long as [...]

Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. The early 20th-century poets were the first to write what they called “free verse” which allowed them to break from the formula and rigidity of traditional poetry. Philip Hobsbaum identifies three major types of [...]

Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional Japanese poetry.

The Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. The most common form of Haiku comprises three short lines of 17 syllables consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. In English, which has long and [...]

Recently a new member of our writing group complained that she didn’t understand poetry and posed the question ‘what is poetry?’ We all attempted an answer and quite honestly we couldn’t find one. Granted we came up with some basic definations:

“The best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The record of the best [...]

“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” -William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Poetry does have a place in our world, a necessary place. Less and less do we find poetry taught in schools, and many people say poetry doesn’t belong in [...]

Leaf Books invites you to submit poems (max 35 lines) on any subject. All selected entries will be published in an anthology. Leaf Books always used to send every author of the selected entries a free copy of the book but due to general funding crises they will only be sending free copies to the [...]

For me poetry does not come easy, for others it seems to roll of their tongue. These ’select few’ as I like to call them have the natural ability of expressing their thoughts and feelings in a few will chosen lines. However, like all forms of creative writing, if you work at your poetry then [...]