5 Top Places to Write Poetry on WEbook

Fact: 59 out of 63 WEbookers write at least one poem every year. Of those poet-WEbookers, 27% write a poem every few days. Popular topics include love, nature, loneliness, youth, old age, and disco ninjas. 97% of all WEbook poems include the word “the.”

Okay, I made all that up. But here’s one true statistic: As of today, there are over 1500 poetry projects in progress on WEbook. Holy Longfellows!

If you write poetry, you’re in great company on WEbook. But if you start your own poetry project, it can be hard to get the attention and feedback you want in the sea of other WEbook work. What’s a WEpoet to do?

Easy! Contribute poems and feedback to an active project in progress. Many WEbook projects accept poems from any WEbooker brave enough to hit the submit button. These projects already have an active community of folks reading and writing, so your poem will be sure to get a few extra hits right away.

“Sounds good, Melissa! But how can I find the right projects to get involved with?”

That’s where I come in! With the help of WEbook intern saraelizabeth, I scoured the 100+ pages of WEbook poetry and came up with 5 great projects open to each and every WEbooker.  Before you submit your poem, be sure to take a few minutes to read some of the other submissions and familiarize yourself with what your fellow poets are up to! If you leave feedback, you’ll be much more likely to get comments on your own poems.

Note: This list is by no means definitive! I was not able to read all 1500+ projects, so I’m sure I missed a few good ones. Feel free to add your favorite open poetry projects to the comments field.

Top 5 Open WEbook Poetry Projects:

Moveable Musings. I love magnetic poetry – and now there’s a place where you can post your best ever magnetic compositions. Project Leader soloeagle gives these guidelines to potential participants: “Use Magnetic Poetry tiles to compose a haiku, ode, or sonnet. Go freestyle or pentameter. Just write restricted to the words on the tiles.”

Quaquaversal Poetry. According to the project overview, by Project Leader Zen_Driver, “Quaquaversal means, literally, ‘turned wheresoever.’  This project thrives off of dynamism.  If it doesn't spread and expand and gather and propagate new ideas and images, then it simply cannot be quaquaversal.”

Months and Weekdays. In this project, poets describe a month or day of the week in 6 words or less. Project Leader brigidmarie writes, “I enjoy trying to put as much meaning into six words as possible. I feel like months and days have a lot of feelings attached to them. July feels different from October, just as Monday feels different from Saturday.”

Dead Roses. This project gives WEbookers a place to express their feelings about the loss of a loved one. Project Leader JonasCullen suggests a broad interpretation of the project’s theme – contributors can write about “a break-up, a death, a friend moving,” or any other loss.

Soundtrack of My Mind. For WEpoets of a more general bent, Soundtrack of My Mind offers the opportunity to post a poem on absolutely any topic. Led by WEbooker Karleigh.

Bonus: Poetry Reading List

If you’re not in the mood to write, don’t fret. WEbook offers plenty of poetry to read and review. You can browse the afore-mentioned 1500+ projects, or you can start with a few staff favorites.

HalfMoon showcases  WEbooker HalfMoon’s variation on the etheree, a little-known type of poetry created by Etheree Taylor Armstrong in 1970.

Harrow_Lennox’s Eating Bugs, and Kissing the Moon includes “Poems about nature mostly, but also about the night, and things we want, and the things we don’t.”

Finally, check out The Groovy Ninja and Other Amazing Poems, in which Kermitgroupie writes about clever Martians, redneck rabbits, and, of course, the eponymous groovy ninja.

Write on!

-- Melissa

Comments

[wolffe]

Here is a couple of poetry groups to keep your eye on.

1. Poetry Styles by Alla. This group is public and accepts most poetry styles. A good place to meet and greet some rising poets.

2. Time 4 us 2 be Heard poets group by owlbaby1. A very relaxed group for frustrated poets and new poets to cross mingle with one another with their creative efforts.

There is several other groups that offers support and encouragement but I felt these groups here are top off the line and worth checking out, rather if your a beginner or a career poet.

Wolffe

[igshan jones]

i would like to submit my poems from time to time I have quie a number of them as I have been writing for a good number of years