Write & Wrong
Poet Alarie Tennille shares her experiences about the 2024 AWP Writing Conference in Kansas City.
Is Your Brain a Cat or a Dog? (A Poet’s Dilemma)
Poet Alarie Tennille gives tips on how to decide if you are left brain or write brain and tips on how to compile a poetry book.
When Art Inspires Words: Ekphrastic Poetry
Poet Alarie Tennille is a regular contributor to The Ekphrastic Review, and is pleased to have the opportunity to introduce Lorette C. Luzajic, the Review’s editor and founder.
Who’s Talking?
Most writers are known for having a voice, but poet Alarie Tennille believes there are many good reasons to speak as someone else. Please stop by to read her poem, A Seagull Vaguely Remembers.
Dear Writer
Have two or three favorite writers? Poet Alarie Tennille recommends dropping a line to let them them know, but please read her guidelines first.
A License to Lie
Poet Alarie Tennille says writing fiction is the polite way of telling lies. This blog includes her poems At Chesapeake Bay and Favorite Doll. Only one is fiction. Can you tell which is which?
Overcome Stage Fright: Part II
In Part I, Alarie Tennille shared her techniques for coping with stage fright in those days and weeks before your presentation. Now it’s the big day. Alarie suggests ways to calm down and take care of yourself on that day.
Overcome Stage Fright: Part I
Alarie Tennille was shy until middle-age, when she needed to face down stage fright to take her poetry out into the world. She shares her tips on how-to-face-down a microphone and actually come to love performing.
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Poet Alarie Tennille likes to take bold leaps in finding topics for poetry. The ideas don’t fall from the sky, she sails up to find them. Includes her poem Pencil in a Rare Interview.