Poetry Potpourri

by Suzanne Saporito (guest blogger) Surrealism…. The free mind capturing the moment without strings, either through art or the thought frame of the poetic soul. Some say the surrealist movement came during the inter-war years, through a cultural movement known as Dadaism or Dada (1916 -1920) involving visual arts and literature (poetry, art theory), etc. and mostly concentrating in anti war political works of art, or in reaction to the changes of the world around them. The Dada movement...Read Full Story

June 19, 2009 by versifier Enjoy A Poetry Reading! Posted in Poetry Audio | Tagged Poem , Poetry , Poetry Audio | No Comments Yet Leave a ReplyRead Full Story

Here it is! Here is our brand new digital version of Ruminations for your enjoyment. Members of World of Poets are featured throughout the new quarterly. Ruminations is the online Poetry Journal of World of Poets, my online poetry community. Ruminations has undergone many transformations since late 2006, and I am particularly proud of this new version. My eventual goal is to produce Ruminations as a full-fledged printed quarterly journal. We mostly feature our members, poetry by our...Read Full Story

Each poet has his or her own way of composing poetry. Here are six interesting poetic m.o.’s: *The Roman poet Virgil was said to walk through his gardens all day long, and by sunset, if he’d had a good day at work, he had produced…a single line. *Elizabethan and Jacobean poet Ben Jonson said he would write out a prose paragraph stating the poem’s content, and then sit down and write the poem. Now that’s discipline! *Renaissance English poet John Milton went blind in 1651, yet he didn’t...Read Full Story

If a diamond is forever, then love is the San Francisco treat. Just a little dab’ll do ya so be all that you can be. It’s the cheesiest, so just do it you can have it your way. So reach out and touch someone it’s the best part of waking up. And, like a good neighbor, there’s love and no more tears. Once you pop, you can’t stop for nobody does it like Sara Lee. She lets her fingers do the walking promise her anything, but give her love. She’s come a long way baby and brings...Read Full Story