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Poets and Poems: Four Collections by Erin Murphy, Part 2
“Fluent in Blue” and “Human Resources,” the most recent collections by Erin Murphy, continue her focus on form and order.
A Creativity Recess Kit
Do you need a Recess Kit to help sustain or reignite your creativity? Bethany Rohde has some double-Dutch delightful ideas.
Poets and Poems: Four Collections by Erin Murphy, Part 1
Two collections, “Taxonomies” and “Fields of Ache,” by poet Erin Murphy reveal a focus on form, order, and classification.
5 Fun Ways to Play with Language!
Splashing around in words of any kind can help you form as a poet. Here are five easy ways to get splashing in a foreign language. Plus a poetry prompt!
Visitors to the Ce-ment Pond: The Poetry of Birds
A birdbath in the kitchen garden led to an interest in birds, which led to an interest in what the poets have said about birds.
Top 10 Dip into Poetry
It’s time to see what your community loved in recent Every Day Poems. Come be surprised (and maybe add some lines of your own!)
Poets and Poems: Wendell Berry and “Another Day”
In “Another Day: Sabbath Poems,” Wendell Berry continues his focus on community, land, landscape, people, and a sense of place.
Poets and Poems: Jeffrey Bilbro and “Exile’s Journey”
“Exile’s Journey” by Jeffrey Bilbro is a poetry collection about community, landscape, people, and what makes us human.