The workshop is to support and assist new poets to Neopoet. A place where they can interact with other new members and receive supportive feedback and ideas from the Moderators/Leader. Main purpose of workshop is to help the attendees improve their own poetry and help them with offering critique and navigating the site.
This is a video resource only workshop. Click below for various videos to explain features of neopoet.
Description:
As an official welcome to Neopoet, we encourage all new members to join this workshop. Every new member is welcome. Completing the activities in this workshop will teach you how to navigate and use Neopoet effectively.
Leader: swamp-witch (Kelsey)
Moderator(s): Paul, Geezer, Mark, Rula, RoseBlack
Objectives:
Every member that completes this workshop – according to a checklist completed by a moderator – will receive one month of premium membership for free.
Description: As an official welcome to Neopoet, we encourage all new members to join this workshop. Every new member is welcome. Completing the activities in this workshop will teach you how to navigate and use Neopoet effectively.
Leader: swamp-witch (Kelsey)
Moderator(s): Mark, Rula, RoseBlack, Geezer
Objectives: This workshop consists of ten tasks that will help users understand the basics of using Neopoet and will help familiarize users with the major features of the community.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Description:
An opportunity to join a unique experiment, likely for the first time in the history of humanity --
We will explore poetry in the age of AI, how the world responses to human and computer creativity, and learn from each other what poets feel about AI -- what we are excited about, what we fear, and the ways we anticipate the world will change (or stay the same).
Write a poem from this Title Prompt: Jealousy
Objectives: Write any style poem from the title prompt. Select the Idle Time Poetry workshop on your submit poem page to send it down the stream. See what fellow neopoet members think of your poem! As a new feature to this series we ask our participants to rate the poems 1 to 3. This rating is not meant to criticize a poet but to see how one can write about said topic . 1 would be good 2. Is would be better 3. would be high praise.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Title Prompt: Inner War
Objectives: Write any style poem from the title prompt. Select the Idle Time Poetry workshop on your submit poem page to send it down the stream. See what fellow neopoet members think of your poem!
Level of expertise: Open to all
Description:We will be exploring the power of titles in getting a poem read as well as their use in making a poem understood. This will be accomplished by continuous discussions as well as exercises
Leader: scribbler (Stan)
Moderator(s): undetermined
Objectives:Titles are often an afterthought. This shop will hopefully lead folks to giving titles more thought
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter:Titles, their effects and uses
Description: Modern Day Renga Poetry
Leader: Barbara Writes
Moderator(s): raj
Objectives: To bring Neopoets together to sharpen their poetic skill, share their poems, and critique Poetry of others. It is a place to interact and co-write Poetry together.
Level of expertise: Open to all
Subject matter: Renga Theme: Rain/Raindrops is to be written in Japanese format. Haiku 5/7/5, senyru 5/7/5, tanka 5/7/5/7/7 and Renga (Eternal string of tanka)
Description: Short form appeals to a reader's imagination and goes across cultural barriers.
It disciplines the poet and requires the most precise choice of words in the same time leaving a good degree of pleasant ambiguity.
How to use a poetic toolbox – personification, extended metaphor, allusions, alliteration, repetition, rhyme, meter – in short form? Without a doubt it is a difficult question, however, it is well recognized that structure and patterns make a short poem esthetically pleasing.