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Look Up, (and Don’t Blush)

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Could you find a poem by looking up?

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Baptizing a Cup

By L.L. Barkat 9 Comments

Baptism by coffee? See our featured poem for Random Acts of Poetry.

Filed Under: random acts of poetry

Secret Poetry Love Notes

By L.L. Barkat Leave a Comment

Today I received so many little love notes, I just had to let you know.

Filed Under: Every Day Poems

Waking the Poet: Cures for Writers Block

By L.L. Barkat 36 Comments

Ocean Sunrise Writers Block tweetspeakpoetry.com

Got writer’s block? Lower your standards. Stop refusing your fortune. It’s a start.

Filed Under: poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

What is Poetry: Last Word (at least for now)

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

Daisy Black and white what is poetry

What is poetry? A shot in some dark, a walk in some woods, a maker’s feel for the material at hand, an intuition of what is needed?

Filed Under: poetry teaching resources

Coming of Age: The Stolen Child

By L.L. Barkat 3 Comments

Can you see how the poem “The Stolen Child” embodies a struggle to grow up?

Filed Under: Every Day Poems, poems about writing

Twitter Party Tonight: Write with Anne Overstreet

By L.L. Barkat Leave a Comment

Tonight, September 20, at 9 pm EST, please join us for an evening of improv poetry with Anne M. Doe Overstreet. Here is our standard explanation of a Twitter poetry party 🙂 : The rules are simple because there aren’t any. Well, maybe one (the hashtag). We announce a Twitter Party date and time; party […]

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Rust, Corrosion and Chrome: A Random Acts of Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

What is poetry? Maybe rust, oxygen, or chrome.

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Where to Find Words

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

Is Twitter really mindless for the writer?

Filed Under: article, writer's group resources

What is Poetry?

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Poetry is, of course, art put into lines.

Filed Under: Every Day Poems

Taking Poetry from the Young

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

Where does poetry come from? Anywhere we allow ourselves to find it.

Filed Under: random acts of poetry

Slip into the Prada of Poems?

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

While I think it’s important to discipline myself to try on the shoes of various poem forms, I understand that personality and brain-wiring somehow play a part.

Filed Under: poems about writing, poetry teaching resources

Sonnets Born in Closets and Cheetos Bags

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Never one to miss an opportunity, James Cummins wrote me a sonnet I am fondly calling the “Closet Cheetos Poem.”

Filed Under: Every Day Poems

Get Historical in Pictures

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

If you want to join us, write a poem that focuses on a personal history—yours, an object’s, or another person’s.

Filed Under: random acts of poetry

Twitter Party TONIGHT, Tuesday, 9 pm EST

By L.L. Barkat 3 Comments

At this month’s Twitter poetry party, you’ll get the chance to write with poet John Estes.

Filed Under: poetry

What They Saw by the Sea

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

I love technical facility in poetry, but I do not publish poems that trot it out and forget the human touch.

Filed Under: Every Day Poems

The Village Watched: A Random Act of Poetry

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

There were so many great conversations, visual and verbal, offered up for this month’s collaborative prompt between The High Calling’s PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, random acts of poetry

Waiting for the Every Day

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

I love these little notes I get behind the scenes, about Every Day Poems.

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Let’s Talk in Pictures

By L.L. Barkat 15 Comments

The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.

Filed Under: poetry, random acts of poetry

Pick Up Six—Or How One Poet Teases Another

By L.L. Barkat 3 Comments

I met him by email, and before I knew what was happening, James Cummins had challenged me to a game of six. Six words he chose, which I was charged to use as end-words in a sestina.

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