Poet a Day Blog

World Class Poetry Blog is maintained and written by Allan Taylor, a Pennsylvania poet who has been writing poetry for over twenty years. His approach to poetry - and to poetry blogs - is practical and plain spoken. Unlike many other poet’s blogs, Taylor’s World Class Poetry Blog doesn’t feature his poetry often - he does often feature the poetry of others, and musings about the world of poetry as well as tidbits of news about poetry and practical advice about how to get published, where to get published and why and how you should revise your poetry.In an entry about poetry contests, Taylor quotes poet and Writer’s Digest poetry columnist Robert Lee Brewer on poetry -and adds that it fits his own feelings about poetry. He says,

All the while, I’ve thought poets and those who love poetry should embrace the whole durned thing–from the teenage boy writing a poem for his unrequited love to the post-grad scholar constructing an anagrammatic series of sestinas that incorporate mythological interpretations of the meaning of pop culture references in the 1980s (hey, whatever floats yer boat).

Taylor’s feelings about poetry show in his blog. He’s as likely to post a critique on the Petrarchan sonnet form as videos of slam poetry off youtube. Throw in a hefty helping of newsworthy stories about awards being handed out, markets that publish poetry and whatever happens to strike his mind that has to do with poetry. He’s easy to read without being dumbed down - accessible writing about poetry that’s actually worth reading. What a concept.

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