Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to come and post verses of poetry to "Eternal Renga" So, come as a group or individual and post your verses anytime. This is an ongoing collaborative effort that could go on for hundreds of verses. A truly Neopoet group effort. Let's co-operate to create a truly Neopoet poem.

Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s):

Objectives: To have everyone at Neopoet collaborating a Renga poem.

Level of expertise: Open to all.

Description: Critiquing is a learned skill and so is not always done properly. Unfortunately, because the word “critique” has the same root as “critical”, many people think they need to focus their comments on what they see as weaknesses in the writing. This means the overall effect of the critique is destructive rather than constructive.

Critique is not criticism. Criticism is destructive. Critique should be honest and use constructive tools.

Description: We're going to explore how rhyme patterns can be used to add a more natural sound to rhyming poetry

Leader: stan holliday
Moderator(s): wierdelf

Objectives: To familiarize both beginning and long time rhyme poets with the way rhyme patterns can change the sound of poetry to a more "modern" form of speech

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:
rhyming poetry

Description: Writing Haiku, Senyru, Tanka, and Renga poetry.

Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s):

Objectives: Better understand these four types of Japanese poetry.

Level of expertise: Splash Pool

Subject : Each participant will write 4 haikus, 2 senryu, 1 tanka and the
renga will be a round robin effort. Please remember to put Japanese Poetry Workshop in your title. The poems appear in the Stream and this will remind those non-participants that it is part of the workshop.

Description: This workshop’s goals are three fold.

The first will be to expose the participant to the wide array of rhyme types available to the poet beyond that known as “proper rhyme” (which will be described fully in the workshop’s first essay). Each day of the first two weeks I will introduce and describe one of the more esoteric rhyme types for discussion in preparation for part three.

Description:First we'll discuss the difference between prose and poetry.We will then all write 3-4 paragraphs of simple prose. Each paragraph will have maximum of 5 lines. Can be on any subject. After all prose is submitted I'll pick which writer will use which prose post. He/she then will turn the assigned prose into a poem. May pick whatever type poetry you prefer. Poems will be posted on stream and open for comment.

Program description/goal:

Description: Grasping basic METER in poetry and verse

Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s): Jess Tapper, Wesley Snow

Objectives: Write a short poem using IAMBIC PENTAMETER in English poetry.
In the end, absolute beginners should be more adept with METER in poetry and verse.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: What is METER, IAMBIC, TROCHAIC, and PENTAMETER?

Description: A workshop exploring the different types of and uses of imagery

Leader: Stan Holliday (scribbler)
Moderator(s):

Objectives: To get used to using all types imagery effectively

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:
We will define, discuss and use all types imagery

Description: We will examine the poetic devices of assonance and consonance

Leader: Weirdelf

Objectives: To learn to use assonance and consonance in the context of free or structured verse

Level of expertise: Shark Pool, theoretically, but anyone interested will be able to grasp the concepts, probably more easily than meter.

Subject matter: We will define the terms in discussion then each attempt to write a really good poem using elements of both assonance and consonance avoiding alliteration where possible.

Description: To explore and use the 4 most common story structure components.

Leader: Wesley
Moderator(s):

Objectives: To write a narrative or dramatic poem of moderate size.

Level of expertise: Open to all