"I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee..."

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PS : sponsor poetry visit Poetry Sponsors TRINA STOLEC has over 200 poems published in over 50 zines. She is front-person for the performance art band Logic Alley whose second CD of spoken word tunes, "Diabolical Songs" is currently available on our website and at CD Baby!

TRINA STOLEC Oh I could have said I'm sorry it didn't work out; there'll be a hole in the spot where you stood; nights will be quiet without your laugh; I'll miss the way you looked at me the lights dim, the refrigerator hum keeping beat for us. I could have said I'll miss you, but you didn't want to hear a lie.

"Poetry endangers the established order in the soul."

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Advertise on poetryREpairs A former book publisher and magazine columnist, STEPHEN L. NELSON has authored more than 150 books (including more than two dozen bestselling “… For Dummies” books). In total, his titles have sold more than 4,000,000 copies in English and have been translated into more than a dozen other languages. His most recent writing project is the popular Limited Liability Company Explained web site. KEN KNABB, translator 'The Culimination of Separation' PS: sponsor poetry visit Poetry Sponsors

STEPHEN NELSON Teaching a Teenager to Write: Five Suggestions from a Best-selling Author I’ve been helping my two teenage daughters with their high school writing assignments. No, I haven’t been writing their papers for them. Rather, I’ve been trying to provide them with instruction, tricks and techniques that will allow them to write well… Here’s what I’ve been telling them: Tip #1: Start with a List of Topic Sentences Young writers should religiously outline the structure of their papers before beginning to write. And the way to do this is by making a list of the topic sentences. For starters, at this stage the content of a paper can be easily compared to the teacher’s grading rubric. But working from an outline based on topic sentences makes sense for another reason, too. With a starter list of topic sentences—the typical high school paper won’t require more than a half dozen—the student’s research and writing becomes well defined. Tip #2: Write in Active Voice Writing in an active makes one’s prose easier to read—which is reason enough to forgo the passive sentences. But I observe another problem with using lots of passive sentences. Passive sentences easily become a smokescreen for inadequate research and sloppy thinking. The popular word processing programs like Microsoft Word include grammar-checking tools, which calculate the passive sentences percentage. Use those tools to measure the passive sentences in writing and one greatly improves one’s writing. (Shoot for zero passive sentences!) Tip #3: Write in a Consistent Tense Another observation: Kids (and any inexperienced writer for that matter) tend to mix up their verb tenses. Some sentences use present tense, some use past tense, and so on. But mix and match doesn’t work. Mix and match confuse the reader. Using a single, consistent tense makes your writing easier to read. If you have a choice, I suggest you use present tense. A present tense style often works really well—even when you’re talking about past historical events. Tip #4: Vary Sentence Length A good writer varies sentence length. Sometimes she uses long sentences. Sometimes she uses small sentences—even one word sentences. Varying sentence length makes writing more enjoyable to read. tip #5: Ruthlessly Edit No one, even a professional, writes so well the first time that his or her prose can’t be improved by cutting the fluff, the tangential comments, and the redundancies. Young writers especially need to confidently cut words, phrases, sentences and even whole paragraphs that don’t merit inclusion in the final manuscript. In a sense, good writing comes not just from what you write but also from what you don’t write. ©2007 poetryREpairs material is published under first electronic publication rights; all rights revert to or are retained by the author/poet of the works published). page design ©2007 by poetryrepairs and JohnHorvathJr.

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BARBARA BLATNER -playwright, poet and composer-has enjoys wide acceptance of her work. Her verse play for Epiphany, NO STAR SHINES SHARPER, produced for stage and radio by the Mystic Theatre Company and later published in Baker's Plays, aired repeatedly on National Public Radio stations and acquired by New York's Museum of Television and Radio. PS: sponsor poetry visit Poetry Sponsors

BARBARA BLATNER Living with Earthquakes when the personality suffers a certain level of stress it cracks along the same fault line, Freud said, and it's true, always the same fissure, same wasted geologic site, road or mountain signed with stones, piercing sun, darkness-in-brightness that threatens rituals of washing, walking, eating, speaking, what magazine to read for an hour to unbind the day, follow its white twine into bed where I seek "comfortable enough" in the lie of pillows, then switch out the light, sweet accuracy, sink into blind room, whittle breath in darkness setting toward dream, another day ceded above rock rising, plateau lifting, mind coming through its glue

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