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Owner: Rickie Brown


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Poems In This Collection

    Born in the struggle

    PoetRick Brown

    Stay in motion

    PoetRick Brown

    How much

    PoetRick Brown

    This life chose me

    PoetRick Brown

    Born in the struggle

    PoetRick Brown

    I Walk

    PoetRick Brown

    I'm from a place

    PoetRick Brown

    My life

    PoetRick Brown

    My life

    PoetRick Brown

    Way of life

    PoetRick Brown

    Pray tha lord

    PoetRickie Brown

    Standing ovation

    PoetRickie Brown

    I Walk

    PoetRickie Brown

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  • Editor’s Note

    The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”

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