Owning to a family emergency, I was unable to attend the prize-giving for this year’s Ver Poets Ten-Liners Poetry Competition. Nonetheless, it was a pleasure to judge the entries, and a delight to discover who-wrote-what upon publication of the anthology (since I judged it blind). What follows is my adjudication report. If this piques your …
St. Albans, our nearest market town here in the English countryside north of London, has been holding a week-long series of events focusing on sustainable living. As part of the proceedings they solicited poems from the local Ver Poets group on an environmental theme. They have been posting a new poem each day, and all …
The following reflections appeared in the recent print edition of the Ver Poets newsletter. “Revision is not cleaning up after the party; revision is the party.” -Source unknown “Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.” -Marvin Bell “You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.” -Stanley …
