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5 Reasons Why Your Poems Get Declined (and what to do about it)
How to Get Your Poems Published (tips from a bestselling poet)
How Conflict Avoidant Are You? (tips for writing Question Poems)
How to Revise Your Poems (5 top tips from our best selling book)
How to Write a Catalog Poem (examples included)
How to Write a Ghazal Poem (examples included)
Make Your Own Poetry Club (10 great tips)
Meet Me in a Minimalist Poem (unique tips for choosing your best poem form)

SERIES 1: The Yellow Wallpaper

Prompt 1: Out of One Window I Can See

Prompt 2: I Would Say a Haunted

Prompt 3: It Is Stripped

Prompt 4: I Used to Think

Prompt 5: And Before Morning

SERIES 2: Awe & Wonder Journal

Introduction to the Series

Awe & Wonder Journal-1: Whitman’s Morning Glories

Awe & Wonder Journal-2: Darwish’s Slow Coffee

Awe & Wonder Journal-3: The Forest Elixir

Awe & Wonder Journal-4: The Wordsworth Effect

SERIES 3: The Golden Dress

Series BONUS: The Golden Dress—Free Book!

Prompt 1: Stars on the Darkest Night

Prompt 2: An Unexpected Gift

Prompt 3: Unusual Youth

Prompt 4: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Prompt 5: Heart Secret

SERIES 4: On Being a Writer

Prompt 1: Make that Change

Prompt 2: Take Note

Prompt 3: Set an Easy Goal

Prompt 4: Find Your Places

Prompt 5: Your Ideal Day

SERIES 5: Happy Ideas

Prompt 1: Duchamp in the Kitchen

Prompt 2: Suspense

SERIES 6: Twirl

Prompt 1: The Pause Between

Prompt 2: Compass

Prompt 3: The Possible Both

Prompt 4: Once Upon a Perfect

Prompt 5: Walking Back in Time

SERIES 7: poemcrazy

Book Club 1: Cherry Jazz & Sea Mirrors

Book Club 2: Closets & Doors

Book Club 3: Peach Shells & Blue Marbles

Book Club 4: Meeting in Dreams

Book Club 5: Vikings & Longhand Writing

Club 5 includes an Exclusive Video Interview with Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge! (paid content)

SERIES 8: Journey to Wellness

a series on finding your best life…

Prompt 1: Joy

Prompt 2: See

Prompt 3: Box

Prompt 4: Interlude

Prompt 5: Path

Series 9: The Write to Poetry

love letters to Poetry…

Prompt 1: Dear Poetry

Prompt 2: First Time

Prompt 3: Mirror & Looking Glass

Series 10: Ordinary Genius

Book Club 1: Entering Poetry

Book Club 2: Entering Poetry: Part the Second

Book Club 3: Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Book Club 4: Myths & Fairy Tales

Book Club 5: Rhythm & Rhyme

Series 11: The Poetry Getaway

Introduction

The Poetry Getaway 1: Waking

The Poetry Getaway 2: Secret

The Poetry Getaway 3: Summer Reads

The Poetry Getaway 4: Sunrise

The Poetry Getaway 5: Escape

Series 12: Inktober

Inktober: Take 1

Inktober: Take 2

Inktober: Take 3

Inktober: Take 4

Inktober: Take 5