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10 Poetry Notebooks is a weekly poetry and craft publication offering layered prompts, literary reflection, and a thoughtful space for writers committed to the practice of making poems.
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Field Notes From a Writing Life: A Little Dirt Under Its Nails (opens the original)
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“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”— Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”Recently, a poet whose judgment I trust suggested that some of my poems might benefit from being a little less polished. She wanted me to roughen up the language, to let more of the speaker enter the poem. I knew what she meant. At least I thought I did.Then I began thinking about what she was actually asking me to do. I have spent years learning to make poems more precise. I listen for unnecessary
Pen & Page Prompt #33 (opens the original)
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#Pen & Page: Before / AfterA prompt about two moments separated by an event we don’t include in the draft<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IM10!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
The Accidental Door: A Guided Poetry Exploration (opens the original)
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#Field NotesWe begin with intention. We rarely approach the page with nothing. There is usually a hint of something: an image, a memory, a phrase (often), an experience, perhaps even a firm idea of where the poem is headed. Intention matters. It gets us onto the page. The poem begins to gather momentum. Then something happens. A detail appears that wasn’t part of the plan. It might be a recalled detail, a suggestive word. The tone shifts or the line seems to belong to another poem. Our reasonabl
Field Notes from a Writing Life: The Smallest Unit (opens the original)
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary OliverFor most of my writing life, I believed in making room for the work. Protect the hours. Show up. Keep the appointment. And, especially, put something on the page. But what happens when there simply isn’t more room to make?I’ve been writing less lately. Not because I have less to say or because writing matters less to me. There are simply periods when other things require the hours we thought belonged to us. It has made me wond
Pen & Page Prompt #32 (opens the original)
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#Pen & Page: The Visible SeamA prompt about discovering what connects two fragmentsLet’s look to our notebooks. The place where all the odd thoughts live. What happens to those fragments we save because we are just not ready to let them go? A single line. An image recalled. A sentence that never found what came next. “I think there is something pleasantly irrational to the metaphor—you look at (or hear or smell, etc.), two utterly different and unrelated things, and suddenly there is a spark of
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