When I read a lot of young poets I read poem after poem that start with ‘I’ or use the familiar pronoun as the subject in the poem. It is almost always easy to associate this ‘I’ with the poet him or herself simply because many of the poems use the same voice, tone, and [...]
Sitting around thinking again, I counted 6 ways that a poet can appeal to a reader through voice. These are what I would call The 6 Voice Appeals:
Emotion – People are, at the core, emotional beings. To appeal to your reader’s emotions, you need only charge your poetry with emotional trigger words or infuse it [...]
I’ve been browsing YouTube for poetry videos for several weeks now. I’ve even subscribed to a few channels when I’ve come across poems that I thought made good videos. But until now, I’ve never seen a poetry video that just made me jump from my seat. But this one did.
I don’t know who this poet [...]