EXERCISE LIBRARY

Getting Started

• Why Write Poetry?

  Exercise: Why Write?

  Guidelines for Critique

• Getting Started

  Exercise: Getting Started, Step 1

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Getting Started, Step 2

• Keeping Going (Habits)

• On Critiquing

Word Play and Other Warmups

• Word Play: Lists

  Exercise: The List Poem

  Guidelines for Critique

• Word Play: Big Words

  Exercise: Big Words

  Guidelines for Critique

• Word Play: Crazy Words

  Exercise: Made-Up Words

  Guidelines for Critique

• Word Play: Loaded Words

  Exercise: Loaded Words

  Guidelines for Critique

• Dream Poetry

• Chants

  Exercise: Basic Chant

  Exercise: Intermediate Chant

  Exercise: Advanced Chant

• Concrete Poetry

  Exercise: Concrete Poetry

  Guidelines for Critique

• Limericks

  Exercise: Limerick

  Guidelines for Critique

• Limeraiku

• Simple Words

Basics

• Rhyme Time

  Exercise: Rhyme 1

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Rhyme 2

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Rhyme 3

  Guidelines for Critique

• Other Echoes

  Exercise: Basic Alliteration

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Advanced Alliteration

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Basic Assonance & Consonance

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Advanced Assonance & Consonance

  Guidelines for Critique

• Echoes, Again

  Exercise: Repeated Words

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Polyptoton

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Repeated Phrases

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Refrain

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Parallelism

  Guidelines for Critique

• Focus on Image

  Exercise: Basic Image

  Exercise: Advanced Image

  Guidelines for Critique

• What's a Meta Phor?

  Exercise: Similes

  Exercise: Basic Simile Poem

  Exercise: Advanced Simile Poem

  Exercise: Basic Metaphor

  Exercise: Advanced Metaphor

• We've Got Rhythm

  Exercise: Basic Iambic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Intermediate Iambic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Basic Trochaic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Intermediate Trochaic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Basic Anapestic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Intermediate Anapestic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Basic Dactylic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Intermediate Dactylic

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Basic Spondees

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Intermediate Spondees

  Guidelines for Critique

  Final Exercise: Rhythm

  Guidelines for Critique

• More on Rhythm

  Exercise: Stress Variations

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Syllable Length

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Sentence Length

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Inflection

  Guidelines for Critique

• POV in Poetry (This is a combination exercise: fiction for StreetWrites, poetry for Kalliope)

  Exercise: POV 1

  Exercise: POV 2

  Exercise: POV 3 External

  Exercise: POV 3 Limited

  Exercise: Omniscient

  Guidelines for Critique

• Allusion

  Exercise: Analysis 1

  Exercise: From One End

  Exercise: From the Other End

  Guidelines for Critique

Forms

• Pantoum

• Tanka/Pantoum

• Haiku in Low Places

• Welsh Verse Forms

• Worker Poets

  Exercise: Poetry & Life

  Exercise: Rewrite it Right

  Guidelines for Critique

  Exercise: Audience Need?

  Exercise: Marching Song

  Guidelines for Critique

• Lune Calls

  Exercise: Lune

  Guidelines for Critique

• Cinquains

  Exercise: Syllable Count Cinquain

  Guidelines for Critique

• Cinquain Reprise

  Exercise: Word Count Cinquain

  Guidelines for Critique

• Ghazals (Urdu Poetry)

  Exercise: Ghazals

  Guidelines for Critique

Creating Exercises

• What's An Exercise Outline?

• Critiquing the Exercises

Related Exercises

• StreetWrites Workshop Exercises

Post Your Poems

• On the Kalliope Members Board
• To the Kalliope Email Workshop
• At the Unicorn Pen