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How to Write an Epic Poem: Infographic

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Epic Infographic featured image

Help our noble hero fight good and evil with an epic poem. Our colorful epic poetry infographic will show you how. (And maybe make you laugh along the way.)

Filed Under: Blog, Epic Poetry, Infographics, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

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Looking for poetry on Twitter? Look no further than our latest Top Ten Poetic Tweets, featuring some of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

On Being a Writer—Tell Us Your Story!

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

On Being a Writer by Kroeker and Craig

Join us for our newest book club offering, a three-week community discussion of On Being a Writer by Ann Kroeker and Charity Singleton Craig.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Life

Top 10 Best Fishing Poems

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Top 10 Fishing Poems

We’ve netted 10 best fishing poems for you to enjoy on a day when you’d rather be fishing. The best part? No one needs to bait your hook.

Filed Under: Blog, Fishing Poems, poetry

How to Write a Poem in Every Classroom!

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Green Apple How to Write a Poem Billy Collins Tania Runyan

We’re on a mission to get How to Write a Poem (and How to Read a Poem) into classrooms in every state. Join the challenge!

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Poem, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poetic Tweets birds on rail

Looking for poetry on Twitter? Look no further than our Top 10 Poetic Tweets, featuring some of our favorite Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets

Adjustments: The Series

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

The Adjuster Open Road

Is it true that claim adjusters tell the best stories? Find out for yourself with our subscriber-only fiction series, Adjustments.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Dip Into Poetry

We began a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to take a dip into poetry with us. Discover the power of a single line.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, poetry

Top 10 Best Cheese Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Cheese Poems

Chesterton started a rumor about a mysterious silence created by poets about cheese. Our list of Top 10 Cheese Poems says Chesterton was full of havarti.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry

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

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Sheep from the Back Fun Photo Poetic Picks

Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

An Adjuster’s Letter to John Keats

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

The Adjuster's Letter to John Keats

An adjuster writes a letter to John Keats, hoping to understand mystery and negative capability in a world where truth matters less than what you can prove.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

Top 10 Places in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Top 10 Places in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry takes a trek across the length of England. Here are our Top 10 stops along the way.

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Riding a Bicycle on an Unlikely Pilgrimage with Harold Fry

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Riding a Bicycle with Harold Fry

Would it have mattered if Harold Fry sped up his walking journey, to keep Queenie Hennessy alive? A take on The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by bicycle.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Emily Dickinson - Sylvia Plath - WB Yeats with coffee

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day. Check out coffee shop GIF winner and learn 3 great ways to celebrate with your poet at work today.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee Poems, Emily Dickinson, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Walt Whitman cover

We round out the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poet collection with today’s release of America’s poet, Walt Whitman.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Walt Whitman

Oh, Baby: Top 10 Best Baby Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Baby Poems

Babies could use a little more nuance. They definitely could use more poems. Enjoy this collection of 10 great baby poems.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, Blog, Christina Rossetti, Poems, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: Wisława Szymborska

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Wisława Szymborska cover

Meet Polish poet Wisława Szymborska as we continue our preparations for celebrating Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 15.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Wislawa Szymborska

Take Your Poet to Work: Anna Akhmatova

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Anna Akhmatova Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 15. This week, we add Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova to our collection.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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