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This week: Take Care of YOU - Poetry Your Way Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
Jean Cocteau
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Take Care of YOU, Too – Poetry Your Way
12 greeting cards
11 lawn decorations
10 batches of cookies
9 gifts for family
8 photos of the feast
7 holiday parties
6 stocking stuffers
5 strands of lights
4 kinds of pie
3 cookies for Santa
2 sore feet
1 glass of milk for Santa
This time of year, there’s a lot to do—and usually, you’re doing for others. This is not a bad thing, in fact, it’s a wonderful thing anytime. What I want you to also do, is to make sure you do for you, too!
So, start thinking about what you want to do with poetry. Is it exploration? Is it cathartic poetry? Is it silly poetry? What gives you joy when writing poetry? Do that.
Here’s a poetry form to work with while you bask in that joy.
Epistle poetry form
What drew me to this form is that, with the dawn of the computer age that brought with it email and texting, the letter is almost a dying art in and of itself. So, I—who have always hated to write letters—am oddly interested in writing a letter poem.
BRIEF HISTORY
This form is around twenty-one hundred years old (New Princeton, 1351). The name comes from Latin origins. “Epistola is the Latin word for letter” (Padgett, 69).
MUST HAVES
--It must be a letter. That’s it.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, syllables, or length.
--Any rhyme or meter.
--Use “Dear __________” as part of the poem, or not—it’s your choice. You can write it to anyone (or anything, for that matter), and by anyone.
SOURCE NOTES:
Padgett, Ron. The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. 2nd. NY: T & W Books, 2000.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
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Theme: Epistle poetry
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Inspired by the Apostle Paul’s epistles and his final days in prison
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Comments on last month's newsletter:
From: Monty 
Comment: The least is to get rhythm in all forms, easier when lines rhyme.
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