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Happy National Poetry Month!

4/1/2016

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    There are often a lot of conflicting emotions and opinions surrounding poetry. Poetry can indeed be for everyone. Maybe you think a poem always has to have a certain rhyme scheme--it does not. Perhaps you think a poem has to be less than a page long to get attention--try telling that to Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey), Dante Alighieri (Divine Comedy--consisting of the three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), John Milton (Paradise Lost), Edmund Spenser (The Faerie Queen), and Ezra Pound (The Cantos), just to name a few.

As with the above-mentioned works (epic poems), poetry can be longer than most novels or super short like William Carlos Williams' The Red Wheelbarrow. Poems can cover every subject or personal thought, idea, or emotion that a writer chooses to put to paper. A poem can be funny, serious, morbid, political, breezy, musical, etc. A poem can be composed specifically for public consumption, or written for completely selfish reasons: a window into the soul of a person who never thought their writing would even bee seen by the eyes of anyone else except them.

   You don't have to be a master of interpreting poetry to enjoy it. You do not have to be a literary master to write a poem; all you have to do is be willing to put pen to paper, or tap a few keys to create your personal art. Find your ideal poem in a book or in your own head, just don't think poetry is beyond your reach. Read it, write it, or do a little bit of both for good measure!

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~Danielle G.


Shakespeare's Nursery

          Roses are red--
          but so is the blood spilled

​          from Juliet's happy dagger.

     ~Danielle Grace


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    Danielle Grace was born in Washington, D.C. In addition to being a novelist, Grace is also a poet and entrepreneur. Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and resides in the state of Maryland with her family. As the child of a federal police officer and a Speech Pathologist in the public school systems of Washington, D.C. and the outer suburbs of Maryland, she was raised to be fair in her treatment of all people and inquisitive about the world around her.

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