The Rhyme Doctors are once again teaming up with The Children's Book Insider, this time to present a webinar on writing lyrical picture books called Mastering the Flow. (Our previous best-selling CBI webinar, How to Write Rhyming Picture Books, is also still available!) 

Mastering the Flow is a practical, craft-focused webinar designed to help you create picture book texts that sound beautiful out loud while still delivering a strong, clear story. We'll dig into a plethora of recent lyrical picture book mentor texts to show best-practice techniques. We'll also discuss common pitfalls and how to avoid them. 

Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, rhyme or prose, you’ll come away with tools you can use immediately in your own manuscripts.

We hope you'll join us for this 90 minute webinar! 

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Continuing a series of in-depth posts about Poetry Forms (the overarching structure or pattern of a poem), this month we explore LIST POEMS.
 
What exactly is a list poem? It’s a poetry form which “highlights an intentional catalog of people, places, things, and ideas in relation to each other, evoking an emotion or story” according to the experts at the Academy of American Poets. (Find more about the Academy here.) Generally, in a list poem’s structure, the list section occupies the middle of the poem, with the poem's beginning lines used to set up the list, and the ending section used to summarize or offer an insightful comment about the list. What makes a list poem shine? Using poetic devices such as repetition and parallel structure (see anaphora post) may help create a rhythm or drive home a deeper connection for the reader. And of course, it is an opportunity to explore a topic in more depth.