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	<description>Online tools for better poetry</description>
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		<title>Figures of Speech: Schemes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write a poem paying very close attention to the schemes that you use. Maybe focus on a particular set.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/Schemes.htm]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2010/05/17/figures-of-speech-schemes/</link>
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		<title>Listen for Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write a poem based on a reading of poem. The poem can be about hearing the words, a specific word or sound of a word, about sound in general, or about listening. Just make sure sound is a strong part of the poem.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2010/02/24/listen-for-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Art is Autobiographical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write a poem that indirectly deals with something from your past that isn't in the first person and isn't narrative. This way you can focus on the effects of the event, without falling into the "trap of what happened."]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2010/02/06/art-is-autobiographical/</link>
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		<title>Strong Verse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.strongverse.org/
An online Literary Journal I regularly read that has the aesthetic statement that &#8220;poetry is meant to understood, not decoded.&#8221;
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		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2010/01/15/strong-verse/</link>
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		<title>Charles Simic on Writing Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't tell the readers what they already know about life. Some of the greatest poems in the language are sonnets and poems not many lines longer than that, so don't overwrite.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2010/01/01/charles-simic-on-writing-poetry/</link>
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		<title>The Angel of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write a poem about a person's encounter with  The Angel of Death/the Grim Reaper.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2009/10/24/the-angel-of-death/</link>
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		<title>Tattoo &#8211; Ted Kooser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What once was meant to be a statement—
a dripping dagger held in the fist
of a shuddering heart—is now just a bruise]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2009/08/30/tattoo-ted-kooser/</link>
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		<title>Gate C22 &#8211; Ellen Bass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At gate C22 in the Portland airport
a man in a broad-band leather hat kissed
a woman arriving from Orange County.
They kissed and kissed and kissed. Long after
the other passengers clicked the handles of their carry-ons
and wheeled briskly toward short-term parking,
the couple stood there, arms wrapped around each other
like he'd just staggered off the boat at Ellis Island,
like she'd been released at last from ICU, snapped
out of a coma, survived bone cancer, made it down
from Annapurna in only the clothes she was wearing.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2009/08/17/gate-c22/</link>
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		<title>The Specific Becomes Universal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://bigthink.com/robertpinsky2/re-when-does-the-specific-become-universal

After watching the video, write a poem about a specific experience or object that also has a universal meaning. Attempt to use the object or experience as a “doorway” to the universal. Make sure to choose something so natural and remarkable to you that writing about it is natural.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2009/08/17/specific-becomes-universal/</link>
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		<title>Forum Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The forum is completely operational now.]]></description>
		<link>http://poemworkshop.com/2009/08/11/forum-works/</link>
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