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WoPoWriMo – World Poetry Writing Month

This site is for those taking part in WoPoWriMo, a place where they can put up their poems, ask for feedback (if they want it!) or just hang around reading other’s works!

Anyone can join and your poems do not have to be public, so if you just want to put them up here so we can see that you’ve achieved your goal, that’s fine 🙂 Others may just wish to add links to their own poetry archives. There is also a password setting so only your friends can see the poems.

To prevent nasties abusing the site we are afraid that posts have to go through a review process before they appear on the site.

So what actually is WoPoWriMo?

WoPoWriMo is a poetry writing feast along the lines of NaNoWriMo! For each day of February participants write one poem. The poem can be raw and unedited – the point of the exercise is to get the bones or concept of the poem down onto the page or screen or restaurant napkin. Making it into a smooth shiny monster can happen later on!

So, next question: what are we considering a poem?

We are including all poetic forms including the prose poem, haikus, sonnets, pentameter and anything else that could arguably be called a poem. We are also including song lyrics, as the distinction between lyrical poetry and actual song lyrics is indeed a very blurry thing. Street poetry and rap are as welcome as the floaty Byrons of the 21 century. VisPo (visual poetry), the new and upcoming wave of poetry so far relegated to the edges of the poetry world, is also welcomed – and indeed encouraged!

Performance, kids, even limericks – the idea is to get you writing those poems as a creative expression.

You can mix and match form, or if you wish to write an epic poem along the lines of the Illiad and Odysseys (the first European Literary efforts were indeed very long poems!) then we suggest setting yourself a target of 40 lines a day.

And, yes, we are aware that poems are technically composed and not written, but WoPoCoMo was just too hard to say!

And here is where you can put the poems you have been working so hard on!

You can find out more about WoPoWriMo and find a myriad of resources over on the WoPoWriMo site.

We hope you will join us 🙂