A Guide To Writing is hosting a poetry competetion with a deadline of August 29th.

Theme- Memories.

For details, click here.

Jigsaw Poem Time.

To play along all you do is donate a word in the comments section for other poets to use in a poem. When we have ten words then we can start writing our poems. Send to poetswhoblog@yahoo.com:

your jigsaw poem
the name you want used in your post
a link to your blog.

Have fun, poets!

Check out Poetry Daily news, links to articles about poetry, by clicking here.

Congrats to John Barthel!

John Barthel, who posts at Freedom Melodies , has published a book of his poetry. You can buy She is Joy at Amazon. com byclicking here.

Have you stopped by and checked out the Matinee Muse prompt site yet?

Two prompts are offered each week. The first is inspired by a current film. The second one is inspired by a classic film.

A poet sent in a link to their work for everyone to check out. Click here if you would like to read the work of Dr. Sudha Iyer, poet and philosopher. Author of the collections Evening Bells, Twilight Rhythms, and On the Edge.

Our youngest poet, Milou, has started doing podcasts. Stop by and check them out. Click here to visit Poetry 4 Kids.

PWB Another Business Post

As you probably noticed the blogroll changed earlier this month.

Please double check the blogroll and make sure :

that your blog is still on there
that the title is spelled right and is the title you want
that the link works.

I can't check them all cause it takes too long.

I am still working on moving more poems down to the Poetry and Life section and I am thinking of moving dormant blogs (that have not been updated in six months or that went private) to the Supporters of PWB section. I really want people who click on the Poetry Blog section to find sites that have new poems on them. It really seems like false advertising to me otherwise and it makes the blogroll less useful, I would think. But its taking me a while to get it organized the way I want.

One good change about updating to the newer version of Blogger is that I've been loving using the Featured Blogs Today section. Have you clicked on any of those blogs? Its fun to feature different ones but I'm not doing it for the thrill of clicking and pasting those links in every day or two, so I'll only keep going if it actually brings new readers to those sites. Let me know.


Thanks!

Your Blog Manager,

Sara

You can join an International Poetry Link exchange being offered at A World of Words. Click here to read details.

Send poetry to a sick kid

There is an organazation that is looking for people to send greeting cards to sick children. I was thinking it would be wonderful if poetry bloggers sent greeting cards and included age appropriate poems within them. Wouldn't that be a nice way to spread the love of poetry in the world?

Click here to check out the Make a Child Smile website. Let me know if anyone takes on this challenge. Make sure your poem is child friendly, though, if you do.

A poet sent in a link to their work for everyone to check out. Click here if you would like to read the work of Dr. Sudha

Welcome back, Patchwork Poetry!

Today Patchwork Poem is back, after a short vacation. Why not stop in and check them out? I have found that crafting centos really stretch your writing muscles.

Anyone on Neopoet? Its a poetry community where you post your work and ask for critiques.

Congrats, Sandra Beasley!

PWB sends out congratulations to Sandra Beasley, Washington D.C. poet, and winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize for her first collection of poems Theories of Falling.


Click here to learn more about Sandra Beasley.

Planning to be out of town? You can still blog.

Anyone using the schedule blog post feature in blogger? Its keeping me sane this month. I love it! And its also a great way to keep your poetry updating when you go on vacation.