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Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

It is time to bring the April Poetry Month to a close, and I would never forgive myself if I featured long poetical works worth reading and did not give the spotlight to Chaucer. While most people have likely heard of The Canterbury Tales, and perhaps even read some of it (in a modern translation) […]

Think Like a Poet for Description

As we are bringing the National Poetry Month to a close, it seemed prudent to dedicate the final Writer’s Toolbox installment toward how a fiction, or even a non-fiction, writer can enhance their writing through poetry. The main area in which you can enhance your writing comes through description. Because a poem is typically trying […]

Book Review: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

This post is a part of a Blog Giveaway Hop by Stuck in Books. Be sure to enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway at the bottom for a chance to win a copy of this book. Then check out the other great blogs participating in this giveaway! Title: The Warded Man: Book One of the Demon Cycle […]

Scholarly Saturday: Beowulf

Welcome to another edition of Scholarly Saturdays. Each Saturday in April I am covering a major poetic work that I highly recommend reading, along with a shorter work to read and enjoy that has some sort of connection to the longer poem. Sometimes the connection is based on time period, like today’s shorter poem. Other […]

Poetic Form: Villanelle

For this week’s Writer’s Toolbox post I am going to be looking at one of the poetic forms out there that is rarely seen, but I find that its repetition offers a wonderful format for a poem. So to begin, we must dive in to what a villanelle is. The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem […]

Guest Post: The Second Coming of Arthur

Two weeks ago I had Josh Brown, one of the authors in the King of Ages anthology, contribute a guest post where he discussed the indie author movement in writing and why authors should choose to do what is right for them. Today another author in the same anthology, Alex Ness, is discussing the work […]

Paradise Lost by John Milton

**Note: King of Ages: A King Arthur Anthology is on sale this weekend. It is completely free on the Kindle for this weekend only so grab a copy, read these 13 short stories set across various time periods (including my own set in Medieval Iceland), and leave a review! Welcome back to another Scholarly Saturday […]

Bonus Post: Eye to the Telescope

Because it is National Poetry Month, which means we should all try to read at least a little poetry, I thought it would be appropriate to share this. A few weeks ago Josh Brown wrote a guest post where he mentioned he was editing the next issue of Eye to the Telescope. For those who […]

Perfecting Your Poetry

I’ve been writing poetry off and on since 1999. During these seventeen years I’ve taken English classes, creative writing classes, read poetry books, read poetry essays, written poetry essays, and written a poem a day for a month. My greatest time of growth as a poet came while taking a graduate-level poetry writing course a […]

Book Review: Journey to Aviad by Allison D. Reid

Title: Journey to Aviad by Allison D. Reid Book One of the Wind Rider Chronicles Published on November 28, 2011 282 Pages (eBook) Book Blurb: Threatening clouds and fierce storms besiege the city of Tyroc. More frequent and powerful than ordinary storms, young Elowyn, a weaver’s daughter living in the outskirts of the city, senses […]