More often than not, it seems, fiction arises out of real events. In this short piece by 13-year-old Sonia Joie, we find the fictional diary entry that could just as well have been written by an actual soldier in the field one day back in 1914.

Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It's poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

The pantoum is a metaphor, an artistic expression of cooperation, and the perfect poetic medium for artistic collaboration. Seth Haines invites you to join with other poets in a collaborative pantoum in the comments.

Poetic forms can bring an explorative freedom to the poet. Seth Haines explores the pantoum form, and offers a writing prompt.

The beverage wars are on. This week's poetry prompt pits coffee against soft drinks (or any other drink, really) in a duel to the death.

We round up the month's posts from our WordCandy 100 Sweet Bloggers.

Holiday favorite "A Christmas Story" provides a backdrop for this week's holiday haiku poetry prompt with Seth Haines. Careful. You'll shoot your eye out.

Sara Barkat retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the style of a graphic novel. Can you find a poem in the images?

Last week I received my shiny, colorfully bird-laden copy of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. Books like this don’t usually show up at my house: I’m a poet, through and through. But I’ve also had this little fling with fiction on the side since attending the Midwest Writers’ Conference, where I practically skipped out [...]

tribes save me from the little tribes the us and them tribes that say who can’t marry who that make you take up a gun to defend them give me those sisters and brothers in the bigger family to link arms with to cluck and strut together to head off somewhere not knowing precisely where [...]

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Lyla Lindquist. 1 Art What would you do if a mystery artist left exquisite sculptures on literary doorsteps all over your city? Well, if you’re Edinburgh, City of Literature, you put them all on display in a national tour. Last year, an unknown artist crafted [...]