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Breaking for Holiday
Friends, poets, bartenders dVerse is now taking a two week’s break and will be preparing for next year. As a matter of fact why don’t you sit down and look back on the past year together with me. This...
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Bartalk – Unwritten sheets
Hello poets, friends and followers. The library at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1 January 1965 By Joseph Brodsky The Wise Men will unlearn your name. Above your head no star will flame. One weary sound will...
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Pubtalk: Hellos, Goodbyes and Finding Time to Write
Hello, dear fellow poets and pub-goers, both regulars and newcomers. Marina Sofia here with you tonight. Come in, relax, let me mix you your favourite tipple and tell me about all your plans and hopes...
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Japanese Poetry Forms: Twins part I
Hello. Toni (Kanzensakura) here. I am happy today to talk with you all about Japanese poetic forms. I originally was going to discuss four forms but have gone instead with just two. Perhaps at...
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Some words at closingtime
Hello dear poets, tonight we have no prompt, but I will be here and tidy up a bit. In the mean time we have a little happy hour, and it would be nice with some chats. But first of all a few...
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It’s closing time
Yes, we need to clean a bit, rest a bit, unwind and get ready for a new year. At a time like this, it’s good to look back a bit. There has been new poets joining, there have been new ones joining....
View ArticlePub Talk – Constructive Feedback
Hello all, For those of you who have visited dVerse throughout the years you might remember the pubtalk. A place to go and talk poetry or other topic… maybe to improve our writing, to discuss new ideas...
View ArticlePub Talk – Lost in translation
In today’s pubtalk I would like to talk about the translation of poetry. Some of you (like me) know poems in a second (or first language) and for others you might read poems in translation. A few weeks...
View ArticlePubtalk – Form or free or both
Hello all and welcome to the third pubtalk since we (re)started this feature… I’m so grateful for all the great discussions we have had on the first two subjects for our chats. Today I think we could...
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Pubtalk: Identity and Perspective
Today I thought we should discuss a bit on poetry and yourself. I think we can all agree that we pour part of ourselves into the words we write. Even when writing fiction, we tend to include our fears...
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Pub Talk – Telling stories
Last time we discussed the identity and perspective in poetry. Answering the question on who you are in your poem. Today I wanted to discuss a little bit about what we write about. Poetry is an...
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Poetry and political provocations
Hello poets. If we go back to the subject of my topics so far it circle around the fact that poetry has grown into a fringe part of art expression. I wanted to discuss how we can make poetry more...
View ArticlePubTalk – Humor in poetry
Hello all, Today the topic is very simple. How about having fun in poetry Sometimes I feel that humor in poetry is both the hardest and the easiest to read. When we are kids we are exposed to nursery...
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Pubtalk – on the subject of resting
Hello all, I just came back from a week of vacation and at today’s pubtalk I would like to talk about how to rest. When vacations was originally introduced it was often seen as a way of resting tired...
View ArticlePubtalk – becoming relevant
Hello friends and poets, Today is the last of our pubtalk in a while. It has been fun to participate in the lively discussions, but I have been running dry on subjects. In four weeks time this feature...
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