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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 6/11/25 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 6/11/25

Why Discomfort in Drafting might Help your Poems

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Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 5/11/25 Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 5/11/25

How Chance Methods can enhance your poetry—with (lots of) examples

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 4/10/25 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 4/10/25

Beating Intermediate Poet’s Block: Toss Out the “Perfect”

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Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 3/11/25 Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 3/11/25

The Power of the Messy First Draft

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 2/17/25 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 2/17/25

The Key to Extended Metaphor

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 1/16/25 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 1/16/25

Why is Poetry So Hard? (Or Is It?)

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 12/17/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 12/17/24

What is Assonance?

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Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 11/14/24 Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 11/14/24

Why We’re All Beginners—and that’s Good!

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 10/16/24 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 10/16/24

How Growth Mindset helps you Create—for Life

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 9/18/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 9/18/24

How (and why) to write a Cento

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 8/8/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 8/8/24

Taking a “Turn”: what a turn is and why your poems need one

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Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 7/16/24 Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 7/16/24

When is a poem done?

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 6/7/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 6/7/24

How to write a Villanelle

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 5/8/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 5/8/24

What can Voice do in poetry?

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 4/11/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 4/11/24

What makes Voice in poetry?

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Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 3/13/24 Drafting Brian Evans-Jones 3/13/24

How to beat Reviser’s Block

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Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 2/8/24 Forms and Techniques Brian Evans-Jones 2/8/24

How to Write a Sestina

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 1/17/24 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 1/17/24

Breaks That Don’t Break You

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 12/11/23 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 12/11/23

How Meditation Helps Poetry

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Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 11/20/23 Creativity Brian Evans-Jones 11/20/23

Your Own Poem Prompts: Tools for Endless Ideas

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