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A Year-of-the-Monarch Confession: I am a Milkweed Eraser
Tweetspeak Poetry’s Year of the Monarch called for planting milkweed. No one knew that I was secretly the Milkweed Eraser.
Poet Laura: Message in a Bottle
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega drops a message in a bottle for Random Acts of Poetry Day and passes the feather to our new Poet Laura.
Poets and Poems: Joseph Bottum and “Spending the Winter”
“Spending the Winter” by Joseph Bottum contains both free verse and New Formalist poems that are all strikingly beautiful.
Text & Image: Interview with Ellen Kombiyil
From beginnings to writer’s block, from ambles to art-making—check out this interview with poet Ellen Kombiyil!
Poems to Listen By: Yondering—1: H. G. Who?
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Poets and Poems: Jules Jacob & Sonja Johanson and “Rappaccini’s Garden: Poisonous Poetry”
In “Rappaccini’s Garden: Poisonous Poetry,” Jules Jacob and Sonja Johanson have visualized the plants of a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story.
Poets and Poems: Ellen Kombiyil and “Love as Invasive Species”
In “Love as an Invasive Species,” poet Ellen Kombiyil takes us out of comfort zones to tells stories of women who face and survive adversity.
Spirals & Seasons: An Interview with Katharine Whitcomb
Poet Katharine Whitcomb has a beautiful spirit. Come listen in to our chat with her—poet, artist, educator!