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National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and a Stolen Earth + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Tony Hoagland Real Estate

Tony Hoagland writes words he cannot find, and plays to our baser instincts to call us to greater things in search of a stolen earth.

Filed Under: Blog, Ecopoetry, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and the Body + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

National Poetry Month Tony Hoagland golden boat

Poems, perhaps more especially now the ones that talk about bodies, have the means to calm and they make me grateful, like Hoagland, “for the lives I / never have to live again.”

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

Poetry Dare: How to Commit Prufrock

By Sandra Heska King 26 Comments

Poetry Dare How to Commit Prufrock orange cat

Sandra Heska King introduces her plan to commit Prufrock (to memory) and introduces our Barista Badges so you can join the fun and celebrate your progress.

Filed Under: Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Committing Prufrock: A New Poetry Dare

By Sandra Heska King 41 Comments

Poetry Dare Committing Prufrock - two white northern gannet

Sandra Heska King gets nabbed while under cover in the poet’s protection program and agrees to commit Prufrock in the latest Poetry Dare scheme.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 3)

By Sandra Heska King 11 Comments

Poetry Dare Dreaming with Darwish Part 3

Sandra Heska King concludes her “Dreaming with Darwish” poetry dare, reflecting on the ways the dreams, and poems, will stay with her.

Filed Under: Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 2)

By Sandra Heska King 29 Comments

Poetry Dare Mahmoud Darwish

In her second Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King considers how Darwish used poetry and beauty to resist violence and siege.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish

By Sandra Heska King 22 Comments

Darwish Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

In her first Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King wonders if Darwish is writing about a person or place, a man or woman, himself or someone else.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Mahmoud Darwish and the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poetry Dare Butterfly's Burden Mahmoud Darwish Photo Susan Etole

We’ve challenged Sandra Heska King to a brand new adventure, the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare with the dream-like poetry of Mahmoud Darwish at the center. Come along and follow your dream? We dare you.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare

A Poetry Dare. I Really Don’t Care.

By Ed Cyzewski 17 Comments

Light Switch Poetry Dare

We’ve extended a poetry dare. And the subject is not quite willing. What will happen to Ed over the next 30 days?

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry Dare

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “Interview with a Child”

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Wisława Szymborska Interview with a Child

The young Master in Wisława Szymborska’s “Interview with a Child” challenges us to reject the idea that things are only as they seem.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “A Speech at the Lost and Found”

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

umbrella Wisława Szymborska speech at the lost-and-found

When contemplating infinity, it’s helpful to have a small thing that can fit in our hand. Wisława Szymborska places a blue umbrella alongside the universe.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “Could Have”

By Will Willingham 22 Comments

Wisława Szymborska Could Have

It’s difficult to explain good fortune, though that didn’t stop Wisława Szymborska from trying in her poem “Could Have.”

Filed Under: Blog, Catalog Poems, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “Conversation with a Stone”

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Wisława Szymborska's Conversation with a Stone

Wisława Szymborska’s “Conversation with a Stone” evokes the infuriating sense of talking to a rock. That’s a good reason to love the poem.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, poetry, Wislawa Szymborska

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “Vocabulary”

By Will Willingham 38 Comments

wislawa szymborska vocabulary

Join us for Week #1 of our National Poetry Month Poetry Dare. We’re looking at “Vocabulary” and “An Effort” by Wisława Szymborska. What did you read?

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska, writer's group resources

A Poetry Dare for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 128 Comments

Poetry Dare standing on the wall

Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining in our first ever large group Poetry Dare. Read a poem a day with us, with the daily offerings from Every Day Poems or a choose a poet to read for the month.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: What Tangled Webs T. S. Eliot Weaves

By Sandra Heska King 33 Comments

t s eliot poetry dare

Sandra Heska King’s poetry dare continues, while she suspends herself in the web woven by T. S. Eliot’s marvelous collection of words.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: Do I Dare to Do a Dare with T.S. Eliot?

By Sandra Heska King 54 Comments

poetry dare t s eliot

Would you read T.S. Eliot every day for 30 days? Sandra Heska King couldn’t resist a double-dog Poetry Dare.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare

Operation Poetry Dare: The Conclusion of the Matter

By Nancy Franson 31 Comments

poetry dare conclusion

Nancy Franson completes the Poetry Dare and says, “I officially love poetry!” So was it just a stunt, or was this a true poetry-avoidant conversion?

Filed Under: Blog, poems every day, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources

A Poetry Dare for Will Oldham, the Anti-Poetry Guy

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

will oldham poetry dare

Will Oldham’s June 1, 2012 column in Poetry magazine from the Poetry Foundation has sparked a lot of controversy. It’s actually pretty poetic.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems about poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare

Operation Poetry Dare: Poetry Brain

By Nancy Franson 23 Comments

Operation Poetry Dare

Can everyone write poetry? Or only those with a poetry brain? Looks like Nancy Franson is trying to talk herself out of writing a poem as her Poetry Dare continues.

Filed Under: poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry humor

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