This article was co-authored by Adrienne Raphel and by wikiHow staff writer, Bailey Cho. Adrienne Raphel is a writer and crossword puzzle expert based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press, 2020), named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review; What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017), winner of the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize; and, most recently, Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022). She is currently on the English faculty at CUNY-Baruch College. She also teaches graduate-level poetry and nonfiction with the Mountainview MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University, the Writer's Foundry MFA program of St. Joseph's University, and the Berlin Writers' Workshop. Her essays and poetry appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, and many other publications. Raphel has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship from the American Library in Paris and named a James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence; she has been a featured speaker at events such as the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress and the Edinburgh Book Festival. She serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective. Raphel holds a PhD in English from Harvard University, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and an AB from Princeton University.
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QuestionHow do you write a simple rhyme?Alicia CookAlicia Cook is a Professional Writer based in Newark, New Jersey. With over 12 years of experience, Alicia specializes in poetry and uses her platform to advocate for families affected by addiction and to fight for breaking the stigma against addiction and mental illness. She holds a BA in English and Journalism from Georgian Court University and an MBA from Saint Peter’s University. Alicia is a bestselling poet with Andrews McMeel Publishing and her work has been featured in numerous media outlets including the NY Post, CNN, USA Today, the HuffPost, the LA Times, American Songwriter Magazine, and Bustle. She was named by Teen Vogue as one of the 10 social media poets to know and her poetry mixtape, “Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately” was a finalist in the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards.
Professional WriterI would start broadly with the concept. So, what do you want your poem to be about? Then, you start shaping the words to fit that poem. A good resource for finding words that rhyme is a rhyming dictionary. You basically type in the word you want to use and it brings up all the other rhymes and near rhymes, which are words that sound to the ear like they rhyme even though they don't really.
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