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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Holy Land”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Beard Falls Holy Land ODonnell

For poet Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, “Holy Land” has many definitions, encompassing not only the geographic but also those of lived experience.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Dear Dante”

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Steps O'Donnell Dante

“Dear Dante” by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is both a conversation with and a tribute to “The Divine Comedy,” the great poetic work by Dante.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Love in the Time of Coronavirus”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

“Love in the Time of Coronavirus” by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is the poet’s journal of the pandemic year and its change and upheaval.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Andalusian Hours”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

In “Andalusian Hours,” poet and writer Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has created a tribute to Flannery O’Connor, one of the 20th century’s most original writers.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Still Pilgrim”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Girl in Woods Still Pilgrim

“Still Pilgrim” by poet Angela Alaimo O’Donnell tells us that both the major events of our lives and the everyday are but steps in a pilgrimage.

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Poetry: Mirroring the Unseen

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 3 Comments

mirror poetry

Both poems and mirrors “Tell all the Truth, ” as Emily Dickinson insisted, but they “tell it slant.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell talks poetry and mirrors.

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Make Time for Wine and Poetry

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 6 Comments

wine and poetry

In the hands of the poets, wine is poetry and poetry is wine. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, together with wine and poetry, invites you to the Feast of Life.

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Poetry Prompt: Being a Pilgrim and a Martha Stewart Homemaker

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join Callie Feyen and her journey into a 744 page book from Martha Stewart Homemaker. Then find yourself reflecting on what it means to be a pilgrim who alternately breaks myths and embraces them.

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Every Day Poems ✨ The Poetry Club Room

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Dear Every Day Poems Readers, Thank you for sharing your favorite lines with us for the poetry club! This is a way, if you aren’t with us on Instagram or Twitter, to see what has touched each other’s hearts, minds, and souls, month by month. Enjoy. ✨ P.S.: You can also join the poetry club […]

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines (3)

We’ve been taking a daily “dip into poetry” sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter. Come discover the power of a single line.

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Top 10 ‘Dip Into Poetry’ Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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We’ve been taking a daily “dip into poetry” sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter. Come discover the power of a single line.

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Top 10 Best Fairy Tale Poems

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

Top 10 Fairy Tale Poems

From Cinderella to Midas, Rumpelstiltskin to Red Riding Hood, we’ve gathered up a basket full of 10 best Fairy Tale Poems to skip through the woods with.

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Write Your Own Shakespearean Sonnets: Juliet’s Aubade

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

write Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare sonnet

Sonnet about Romeo and Juliet? This is one you simply won’t want to miss. Then maybe try your hand at one of your own.

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Re-Inventing the Ode

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 31 Comments

re-inventing the ode

Creating a traditional ode allows the poet to use her outdoor voice. It is a profoundly public medium, daring to speak to and for everyone.

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Top 10 Poems with Make-or-Break Titles

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

top ten poem titles

Your poem title sets the tone. We show how changing a title can create an entirely different poem. Plus 9 poems with make-or-break titles!

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Our Favorites from the 2012 Poetry Themes

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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Every month, we arrange the way we play poetry around a particular theme. You’ll see it in the artful content from our contributing writers, hear it in our inspiring thematic Spotify playlists, put your hands on it in the Monday morning poetry prompts, or experience it in the daily offerings from Every Day Poems. Here are our favorites from 2012.

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Haiku: Pierced by Beauty

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 10 Comments

Haiku forbids excess. The poet has 17 syllables (or fewer) in which to say, not the un-sayable, but what can be said. There is no room for explanation, only impression. Angela O’Donnell on the way haiku gives the fleet glimpse instead of exposition, a quick picture in place of a thousand words.

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Poet’s Penance (Part 2)

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 5 Comments

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell concludes the essay she began last week, seeking to answer the question, “What is a poet?“ My Many-Minded-Ness, or “One of These Things is Not Like the Other” Poets are many and multiple, each unique in his or her own peculiar ways. No two of them are alike—so much so that there […]

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Poet’s Penance (Part 1)

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 8 Comments

Poet:                Bless me, Father, for I am a poet,                            and I have no idea what that means. Priest:             I absolve you from your sin.           […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 15 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art Mandy Kahn creates community poetry installations. For art galleries. At least, that’s the dream. It’s sort of like improv comedy using lines of poetry, only a lot more lyrical. Al Black used to travel the roads of Florida selling paintings […]

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