Sage Cohen's Tip A Day: Viva La Virtual Community

Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day.

April 10: Viva la virtual community

Don’t have time or space to attend a live event? Want more contact with more poets around the world? Visit a community site and join the conversation. Three of my favorites are:

• Read Write Poem
• Wild Poetry Forum
• Poetry Speaks

Sites like these can help you stay inspired, hone your skills and share the delight of poetry with likeminded people. Read an article, follow a prompt, listen to a poem, share your own poetry or make a connection with someone. Your poetry will be the better for it.

Sage Cohen is the author of WRITING THE LIFE POETIC: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER: Tips & Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating success (Writer’s Digest Books, forthcoming in 2010) and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Learn more at www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com.

Image credit Poets.org.