Borders Open-Door Poetry Q&A with PATRICIA SMITH, 4-Time National Individual Slam Champion and award-winning author
Borders Open-Door Poetry invites you to submit your writing question (as text or video) for a chance to have it answered in a video response from 4-Time National Individual Slam Champion, Pushcart and Patterson Poetry Prize-winning author, Patricia Smith.
Q&A Details
Question submissions will carry over from each consecutive Q&A series so you needn’t resubmit the same.
You can submit as many questions as you’d like, but please submit each one separately by clicking the button below. A pop-up form will appear for your entry.
Questions will be chosen based on originality and benefit to writers and readers.
Questions may be submitted as text or video in any common format not exceeding 12MB. If you submit video, please also submit the text of your video within the same entry form.
You must be over 13 years of age to submit a question.
Patricia Smith welcomes you to submit your writing questions
Get Writing Advice with Paul Muldoon
Paul answers the top 3 writing questions sent in by the Borders Open-Door Poetry Community
Elizabeth F. Asks: “The more I change a poem the better it reads to me, so my editing process never ends. How do you know when a poem is finished and editing should stop?”
Geneva S. Asks: “Assuming that there are no set "rules" in writing poetry, what are some good general guidelines that one might adhere to when writing a poem?”
Elizabeth W. Asks: “What suggestions do you have to create strong line breaks? Do you have a particular formula (for example, ending on a noun, using punctuation, listening to oral inflection of the poem read aloud)?”
Poetry contest submissions for our 2nd contest being judged by Billy Collins are open through September 30, 2008.
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Patricia Smith
Watch Paul’s answers to the top 3 writing questions sent in by the Borders Open-Door Poetry Community Watch
Gather & Write with Anthony Tedesco
Welcome to the world’s first glimpse at 3 new poems by 3 top poets: Billy Collins, Patricia Smith and Franz Wright. It’s: Episode 4 of Borders Open-Door Poetry. Less a sneak peek and more a premonition, a presaging of auspicious poetry en route. All are graciously due out in forthcoming books, including two books already available for precursory doting. Also available for doting: You. The writer. The writer in you. It doesn’t take a soothsayer to say: You’ll feel anew after even just a one-minute freewrite...at opendoorpoetry.gather.com.
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