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How To Poetry Collaborate

Hello Poetteers, I write my own poems. At the end of last year, I started collaborating with other poets. In poetry collaborations, it all depends on the person and the topic. Whether your writing style is similar or different, is there compatibility? It's good if they write similar to you. It makes things easier. But there should be enough difference to challenge your writing. It makes you step out of your comfort zone, to write something else. With the poem collaborations I've done, I've seen you don't need full sentences. Most of the people I worked with wrote longer pieces and it challenged me to write long pieces. I usually keep my poems short. Other people keep their poems short, too, so I'm not alone. I got to see how a longer poem can make a story fuller and more personable. The typical go to when collaborating on a poem is that I write one part of a poem and the other person will the other half. You don’t always have to write like that. Maybe w...

Week Long Poetry Challenge

Hello Poetteers, I’m coming back from my hiatus a week earlier. I have a new set of prompts for you. There is another change to the poetry prompts. It’s phrases instead of words because with the poem a day challenge I saw how much I loved the challenge of having to include a specific phrase in a poem. I hope you enjoy the phrase prompts, too. Share your poems using #ShapeOfBeautiful . Get the Shape of Beautiful prompt bundle . Stay inspired, Fida