Description:Write a poem about a famous painting. Use vivid imagery in order to capture both what the painting looks like and what you think the artist is trying to convey.

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

Objectives:Have fun and practice imagery

Subject matter:Choose a famous painting to write about. Can be free verse or western classic but a minimum of 100 words.

How Judged: By single anonymous judge

Description: Post your first ever or earliest poem

Leader: Jess (weirdelf)
Moderator(s): Wesley

Objectives: Just for curiosity, to see where we've come from.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Most of these poems will be polished or not actively editing. This is not really a workshop but more 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' of our earliest works.

Most important:- Remember when posting your first poem to scroll down to 'Workshop' dropdown and select 'Poets first poems'.

Description: A participant driven shop dealing with most aspects of imagery in poetry

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

Objectives: To get poets more comfortable with using imagery to improve on poetry

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: We will practice using differing imagery starting with a single line then building up to entire poems. There will be a discussion to begin with and toward the end examine known poetry with imagery remove to show how great the difference can be

Description: A free verse poem not to exceed 28 lines (not counting stanza breaks) about somebody who changed history

Sponsor(s): scribbler, Geezer and Pugilist

Objectives: to have fun and stretch wings

Subject matter: Historical figures

How Judged: Very important to put (June Contest) in the title and submit to the Stream

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Description:Any poem about spring

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

Objectives:Just to get creative juices flowing and have fun

Subject matter:Spring....either straight forward or metaphorical

How Judged:

Description: A workshop concerning basic meter.

Leader: Wesley Snow
Moderator(s): Keith Logan, Jane210660
Sound Tech: weirdelf

Objectives: To aid in explaining basic meter in such a way as it may be used in continued poetry.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Meter vs. Rhythm, the four most common metric structures, exercises to practice what we learn. The importance of meter as the most important poetic structure.

Workshop: Collaborative Poetry Writing (Renga)

Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to read, learn and write collaboratively poetry. In this workshop you will learn to write (4) four forms of Japanese poetry.
Poets would also come together and co write any poem of their choosing.

1. Haiku three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
2. Senyru three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
3. Tanka five lines of poetry written with 5/7/5/7/7 syllables
4. Renga a string of tanka poems from two or more poets.

Objectives: To practice giving constructive feedback.

Level of expertise: Open to all, especially newcomers learning to give constructive feedback.

Subject matter: This is widely regarded as one of the worst poems of all time. For this workshop simply pretend that it a Neopoet member's first poem and write a critique. Keep it reasonably short, we can't all write a thesis on everyone's poems.
We will then critique each others critiques.

Workshop: Collaborative Poetry Writing (Renga)

Description: This is a meeting place for all poets on Neopoet to read, learn and write collaboratively poetry. In this workshop you will learn to write (4) four forms of Japanese poetry.
Poets would also come together and co write any poem of their choosing.

1. Haiku three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
2. Senyru three lines of poetry written with 5/7/5 syllables
3. Tanka five lines of poetry written with 5/7/5/7/7 syllables
4. Renga a string of tanka poems from two or more poets.