Could you find a poem by looking up?
Baptizing a Cup
Baptism by coffee? See our featured poem for Random Acts of Poetry.
Secret Poetry Love Notes
Today I received so many little love notes, I just had to let you know.
Waking the Poet: Cures for Writers Block
Got writer’s block? Lower your standards. Stop refusing your fortune. It’s a start.
What is Poetry: Last Word (at least for now)
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?
Coming of Age: The Stolen Child
Can you see how the poem “The Stolen Child” embodies a struggle to grow up?
Twitter Party Tonight: Write with Anne Overstreet
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 […]
Rust, Corrosion and Chrome: A Random Acts of Poetry Prompt
What is poetry? Maybe rust, oxygen, or chrome.
Where to Find Words
Is Twitter really mindless for the writer?
What is Poetry?
Poetry is, of course, art put into lines.
Taking Poetry from the Young
Where does poetry come from? Anywhere we allow ourselves to find it.
Slip into the Prada of Poems?
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.
Sonnets Born in Closets and Cheetos Bags
Never one to miss an opportunity, James Cummins wrote me a sonnet I am fondly calling the “Closet Cheetos Poem.”
Get Historical in Pictures
If you want to join us, write a poem that focuses on a personal history—yours, an object’s, or another person’s.
Twitter Party TONIGHT, Tuesday, 9 pm EST
At this month’s Twitter poetry party, you’ll get the chance to write with poet John Estes.
What They Saw by the Sea
I love technical facility in poetry, but I do not publish poems that trot it out and forget the human touch.
The Village Watched: A Random Act of Poetry
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.
Waiting for the Every Day
I love these little notes I get behind the scenes, about Every Day Poems.
Let’s Talk in Pictures
The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.
Pick Up Six—Or How One Poet Teases Another
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.