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A Live Tweetspeak Poetry Party with Sara Teasdale, Part 2

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Five additional poems resulted from the Tweetspeak Poetry retreat, with “Flame and Shadow” by Sara Teasdale providing the prompts.

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Flame and Shadow: A Live Tweetspeak Poetry Party with Sara Teasdale, Part 1

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Autumn Blooms Flame and Shadow

In August, Tweetspeak Poetry hosted a retreat and undertook the first Tweetspeak Twitter Poetry Party without Twitter. Sara Teasdale provided the prompts.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, Poets, Sara Teasdale, Twitter poetry

The Yellow Wallpaper Film: Interview with Kevin Pontuti & Alexandra Loreth

By Sara Barkat 1 Comment

Yellow Wall-Paper white flowers in sun

Illustrator Sara Barkat interviews the creative forces behind a new film version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper.

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Why She Created ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Graphic Novel

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Sara Barkat

Megan Willome reviews Sara Barkat’s new graphic novel adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and explores the power of *writing,* to keep the soul steady.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Graphic Novel, Interview, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Year of Wisdom

The Art of the Handwritten Letter: A (Typed) Letter on Handwriting

By Sara Barkat 4 Comments

Pen Cup Handwritten Letter

Sara Barkat writes about the power of handwriting, where paper and ink let a single word grow to fill a line, or fold itself up small.

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A Way With Words: Faze and Phase

By Sara Barkat 1 Comment

words that are not the same faze and phase

In today’s A Way With Words, Sara Barkat teaches (and amuses) us with the difference between the homophones faze and phase.

Filed Under: A Way With Words, Vocabulary

A Way With Words: Canon and Cannon

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homophones canon and cannon

In today’s A Way With Words, Sara Barkat amuses us with the difference between the homophones canon and cannon.

Filed Under: A Way With Words, Vocabulary

Poets & Writers Toolkit: 5 Invaluable Word Tools

By Sara Barkat 15 Comments

Dictionary and word tools

Stuck on a word? There is hope for your writing project with the perfect dictionary to fit your precise need. Sara Barkat has 5 word tools for poets.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, Wordsmith Secrets, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

Make Your Own SAT Questions

By Sara Barkat 4 Comments

Desert Island Make Your Own SAT Question

SAT questions should test creativity and sense of humor. This one from Sara Barkat certainly does.

Filed Under: Blog, Education Humor, English Teaching Resources, Student Writing

Poem Analysis: Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach

By Sara Barkat 15 Comments

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An evocative poem analysis focusing on the imagery in Dover Beach. Insightful and intriguing, from student writer Sara Barkat.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Grief Poems, Humanity Poems, Poem Analysis, Sea Poems, Student Writing

Poem Analysis: Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”

By Sara Barkat 15 Comments

Anne Sexton Her Kind

An evocative, insightful analysis of Sexton’s “Her Kind, ” from student writer Sara Barkat. Hold on to your hat!

Filed Under: Blog, Poem Analysis, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Student Writing, Woman Poems

Little Red Riding Hood: A Graphic Novel

By Sara Barkat 15 Comments

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?

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Fairytales, Graphic Novel, poetry

The Yellow Wallpaper Characters

The Yellow Wallpaper Weir Mitchell

full list of every character in The Yellow Wallpaper & who they are — narrator, John, Jennie, Jane, Mary, baby, brother, mother, cousins & Weir Mitchell! go here if you just want a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper Unnamed Protagonist & Narrator: Our unnamed protagonist is the narrator of the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper,” a […]

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

Summary of the Yellow Wallpaper In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman is persuaded by her husband, John, to take the rest cure from an ambiguous nervous breakdown (possibly linked to post-partum depression). The house they go to is old, broken-down, and, our unnamed narrator and main character thinks, quite possibly haunted—at […]

The Yellow Wall-Paper Sanity Journal

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To the “creative gift journal” genre comes a witty, wise, and wonderful illustrated journal based on The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel. Funny, surprising, thoughtful, mischievous (and sometimes melodramatic) prompts throughout.

“The Chimney Sweeper” (from “Songs of Experience”) by William Blake

blake the chimney sweeper experience

< Return to William Blake Poems “The Chimney Sweeper” (from “Songs of Experience”) A little black thing among the snow: Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe! Where are thy father & mother? say? They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil’d among the […]

How to Do Literary Analysis: An Experimental Reflection Based on The Yellow Wall-Paper

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Ocean Literary Analysis as Conversation The Yellow Wall-Paper

How do you do literary analysis? You might begin by treating it as a conversation between you, the reader, and the writer’s words. After all, the story wants to be heard. Let’s start with The Yellow-Wallpaper.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Analysis, The Yellow Wall-Paper

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Divinest Sense

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense–’ as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, book reviews, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Tell It Slant

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Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant–’ as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: The Thing With Feathers

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

graphic novel Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” using Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers–” as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, book reviews, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Writing

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