Description:This month's contest will be about an EARLY Spring, not just Spring, but an early Spring. It should be thirty lines or less, (one or two more will be allowed). Any form, it must be about anticipated, wished for or actual. From any viewpoint; yours, children, animals, ect. Prewritten poems are allowed but must conform too parameters.

Sponsor(s):scribbler, Geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: To have some fun writing about longing for Spring

Subject matter:

How Judged:

Description: To explore rhythm and meter in Free Verse and Classical Forms and to explore and write poetry that fulfils the criteria of the discussion topics.
Leader: samary
Moderator: weirdelf

Objectives:To explore Rhythm and Metre in Poetry
Consider syllables language and word stress
To revisit the theory around word stress
Briefly consider Meter types
To explore Syllabic Meter and look at poems in syllabic meter..
To  write a poem in syllabic meter

Description: An introduction to critique for new members and a reminder to long time members that critique is what Neopoet is all about, join in!

Leader: weirdelf
Moderator: c lynn brooks

Objectives: To help poets help each other through constructive feedback. To help redefine the meaning of 'critique' if it has negative connotations for you.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Description:Since it is a new year let's write about either the beginning of the new year or the end of the old. Must be in quatrains but doesn't have any other restriction other than length. Please keep poem under 9 quatrains

Sponsor(s):scribbler and Geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives:Welcoming in the new year or ushering out the old

Subject matter:New year or year just passed

How Judged:By volunteer anonymous judge

Description: Any style, any length (but please have a heart as to length as the judge likely has limited time)

Sponsor(s):Scribbler, geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives: Giving a peek into author's life and how he/she came to be what they are today

Subject matter: Life's ups and downs

How Judged:

Description: To review the history and philosophy of "prose-poems" related to poetry. After sharing examples of critical opinions and literary criticism, we will share our favorites. In the last part of the workshop we will write a poem and a prose poem with the same basic content to see the value of each.

Leader:
Moderator(s): Eumolpus

Description:Fairly simple: write a sonnet, any type, any subject

Sponsor(s):scribbler, geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives:Just to have some fun writing a sonnet

Subject matter:Any subject

How Judged:

Description:The October contest is four quatrains of rhyme
featuring what October means to you. It can be about
Halloween or Autumn weather. For those who are having
Spring or Summer weather or don't celebrate Halloween
you might make it about ghosts or monsters. Good

Sponsor(s):scribbler and geezer
Judge(s):anonymous

Objectives:just to have some fun writing about the month of falling leaves

Subject matter: What October means to you

How Judged:By anonymous volunteer

Description:Exploring the effective use of imagery to draw the reader into the poem

Leader: scribbler
Moderator(s): Mark

Objectives:Learning how to "show" instead of "tell"

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:Imagery in immersion

Description:We are going to explore the effective use of imagery to draw the reader into the poem.We will use both discussion and exercises to do this.

Leader: scribbler
Moderator(s): Mark

Objectives:Learning how to use imagery to "show" instead of "tell".

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:We will use both member and classic poetry in the shop in order to explore an important use of imagery.