Poet to Watch: Richie Hofmann
On today’s Poet to Watch, Richie Hofmann is up to show us how the lyrical mode in poetry is done. Many critics have called his work “elegant“, which is pretty…
Picking the Right Mentor
Picking the right mentor can be a difficult task. You don’t want to offend certain people that have worked with you on their own by not asking them to be…
Poet To Watch: Alysia Harris
Poet to Watch: Alysia Harris… …is not new to the game. A member of the spoken word collective The Strivers Row Poets, Harris performs poetry with her fellow members Joshua Bennett…
Resisting Internet Arguments
Resisting internet arguments seems like such a difficult thing to do nowadays. Let’s be honest; anger is real. Frustration and exhaustion are real. But if you cannot transform that…
Failure Cures Failure Just In Case You Did Not Know
If someone whom you respected walked up to you and said: “Failure cures failure” how would you react? It seems backwards, right? How can failure, not success, be what…
Working With Purpose
What does “working with purpose” mean? I suppose the answer to that is another question: what are your responsibilities to what you love? I asked several emerging poets what they…
Living For The Money Can Create Dark Times
Learning from dark times means, for me, looking at a point in my life where I wanted something very important to me in a way that was unhealthy for me….
What Advice Is Right For Me?
Have you ever asked yourself “What Advice Is Right For Me?” after asking a few trusted sources and getting very different answers from each source? The Hard Choice: Knowing who…
Developing a Writing Community
When developing a writing community for yourself, it is most important to remember that it takes great relationships with other people to build that network. Here I will explore a…