The object that outlived the person
Write twelve lines about a possession that stayed behind. No abstract nouns for feeling — let the object carry it.
Community
Writing alone works better with a deadline and a room. Here is the shared calendar: a prompt every week, a form challenge every month, and a reading circle working through the library.
Weekly prompts
A poem in one sentence
One grammatical sentence, at least eight lines, broken so that each line could almost stand alone.
Rewrite a cliché
Take 'time heals' and prove it wrong in a haiku. Seventeen syllables, no argument, one image.
Monthly challenges
Sonnet month
Fourteen lines, volta at line nine, and a couplet that changes jurisdiction rather than summarising.
Ten haiku in ten days
One perception per day, recorded within an hour of noticing it. No revision until day eleven.
The refrain challenge
A poem with a repeated line that means something different each time it returns.
Upcoming events
End-symposium on elegy
A three-session reading circle on the elegy form, from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' to contemporary examples.
Translation workshop
Bring a poem in a language you don't write in. Work in pairs to produce a translation that honours both the original and the English.
First-book bootcamp
Four weeks on chapbook and first-book structure: how to order poems, how to title, how to submit to journals.
Reading circle
We read one poem from the library each week and discuss it against the analysis published here — agreeing with it is optional and disagreeing is more useful.
Code of Conduct
This is a small, quiet community. We ask that you:
- Be generous with your attention and your criticism. Address the poem, not the person.
- Disagree with ideas freely; do not attack writers for holding them.
- Credit sources. If a line came from a poem or a person, say so.
- No spam, no self-promotion, no attempts to manipulate rankings or engagement.
- Report problems to [email protected] — we respond within seven business days.
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