A collection of resources for poets that we add to all the time. Here, you’ll find poetry prompts, revision tips, and other resources to help writers get words on the page, and polish them up in subsequent drafts. We also have an ever-growing collection of interviews with our poetry contributors that offers discussions of craft, and lots of inspiration.
In this series of workshops, explore how creative limits can reroute writing habits, silence the inner critic, and open up new ways of making a poem.
Intro to Creative Constraints, hosted by E. Bedford
Hermit Crab Poetry, hosted by Rayya Liebich
Erasure, hosted by Erin Bedford
The Cento, hosted by Dagne Forrest
Poetic Forms, hosted by Jade Y. Liu
Each session is approximately 90 minutes, including writing time. All five recorded sessions can be accessed with a one-time payment of $25 CAD by e-transfer (within Canada) or PayPal transfer (outside of Canada) to pinholepoetry@gmail.com
Upon payment, you will be provided with the password to access the videos on the following page.
https://pinholepoetry.ca/creative-constraints-workshop-access
- The Time is Now Poetry Prompts
- 28 Short Lectures: Mary Ruefle
- Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments
- Emily Stoddard’s Poetry Bulletin
- Some Notes on Organic Form
- To See the Poem Again: Teaching Revision
- Five Takes on Revision
- Jane Hirshfield on The Fullness of Things
- Naming the Unnameable / ch. 8: Revision
- The Warmth of the Messy Page
- How to Revise without Losing the Initial Spark
- Ada Limon on How to Write a Poetry Collection
- 21 ways to end a poem or leave your lover
- National Poetry Society #NAPOWRIMO Prompts
- Make it Strange: the cut-it-up method