Unleash the Poem Within: How Reading and Writing Poetry Can Liberate Your Creative Spirit

by Wendy Nyemaster

Unleash the Poem Within is about friendship, self-reflection and learning something new. It is, quite simply, about how the power of creativity can change your life.
This book shows women how to liberate their creative spirit and use it not only as a means of self-expression, but as a way to find more calm, peace and an enhanced ability to see the value in each present moment.
Wendy Nyemaster is the founder of the Poetry Posse, a group of ordinary women committed to writing and sharing their creativity as a way to enhance their lives. She guides the reader through twelve different poems and how to write them, and how doing so can unlock their inner power.
Unleash the Poem Within shows women that by experimenting with creativity, they can find their voice and live their lives to the fullest.

Genres: Poetry, Writing, Nonfiction

303 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book for women who want or need a nudge to start writing poetry. Nyemaster's goal with this book is to get women to see poetry as a form for self-expression, like journal-writing. She introduces readers to several forms of poetry and suggests ways to use them, for example, writing a sonnet to explore an emotional matter, writing a sestina to capture a memory, or writing a ghazal to let yourself daydream. I thought this was a wonderful addition to the world of books on writing poetry and a welcome change from all the books out there meant to help you get poems ready for publication. This would be a good book for a woman who's interested in the idea of poetry, but who hasn't written a line in her life.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a priviliged member of the posse, the journey we took with Wendy while making this book was cathartic, eye-opening, and chuckle-worthy! I don't know that I think any of my writings are good enough for publishing, but I enjoyed the heck out of learning how to write in the different styles and seeing what my mind could create that was beyond the angst-ridden poems I'd written in my youth. I'm so proud of Wendy for getting this book out there and hope that many people will learn how to 'Unleash the Poem Within!'

[Apoorva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Her obsession with motherhood and bloody CLOTHES was rather annoying, but otherwise a decent book. Makes you want to write (crap) poetry without worrying about the audience.