It may not seem so, but in their early days of writing, all writers were builders.
Archives for March 2013
Image-ine: Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen
Maureen Doallas pairs her poem ‘A Ladder Our Boat’ with Holly Friesen’s ‘Warrior Canoe’ in our latest Image-ine feature.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Poetry for doctors, music for Yeats, portraits from shredded letters for your love. Seth Haines has this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy (Book Club Announcement)
Join us for our next book club title, ‘poemcrazy’ by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, just in time for National Poetry Month.
Leaving Books
Books are who I am–I am the sum total of every book I have read. Charity Singleton Craig reflects on parting with her book collection.
The Artist Date How-To
The artist date is a play date you plan with yourself, by yourself. Go to the river, build a snowman, run your hands over paper and paints at a funky supply store.
Artist Date: Back Room, Meininger’s
The Artist Date is a dream-child of Julia Cameron. Come along on this one, to a back store room at Meininger’s.
Poetry at Work: How to Recognize a Poet at Work
A secretary at work once stopped me outside my office. “People are worried about you, ” she said. “Me?” I asked. “Why?” “You’re walking the hallways, mumbling to yourself. People are noticing.” I stared for a moment, and then I understood. “I’m writing a speech, ” I said. “It’s a restless activity for me. I […]
Poetry Classroom: The Goldfish Pond
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan. Up today, the innocence and wisdom of the goldfish pond.
Personal Pantoum Fest (A Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines tried his hand at this month’s theme. Writing a pantoum was an exercise in discipline, sticking to the strictures of a poetry form. And like it or not, the poetic form assisted in maintaining and conveying the chaotic sense of the story.
Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel
“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Poets & Writers Toolkit: Mind Mapping
You can use mind mapping software to tap into your creative ideas and structure them visually
Poetry Classroom: Life Outside
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan, author of A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight.
World Read Aloud Day: 6 Benefits of Reading Aloud to Your Children
On this World Read Aloud Day, Kimberlee Conway Ireton give us 6 great benefits of reading aloud to our children.
Memoir Workshop: Let It Make All the Difference
Looking to get your memoir published? Or explore memoir techniques, as a form of personal journey? This might be the workshop for you.
Disturbed? Every Writer Should Be
Do you realize what a rare opportunity you have? And do you see what the world would never know if it wasn’t for you as a writer, and you alone?
WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup on the Prairie
We round up another month of WordCandy quotes, poetry, photos with our Sweet Bloggers.
Poetry at Work: Beauty in the Workplace
Few associate our work with beauty. It’s one of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, we fail to see poetry at work. No beauty, no poetry.
5 Great Ways for How to Write a Pantoum
Here are five great ways to write a pantoum. You weren’t looking for anything but great ways, right?