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Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

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Twitter Poems Top 10 Poetic Tweets

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

Take Your Poet to Work: Robert Frost

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Robert Frost

We continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration. This week we welcome Robert Frost to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: poetry, Robert Frost, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Maya Angelou

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

As we continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration, this week we welcome Maya Angelou to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Maya Angelou, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

The Best in Poetry Top Ten Poetic Picks

How awe makes us more generous, how rhythm can help dyslexic kids read, and how reading Ginsberg might get you fired. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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

Take Your Poet to Work: William Shakespeare

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

William Shakespeare

We kick off the release of our 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poets collection with the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Top Ten ‘Princess Bride’ Quotes

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Top Ten Princess Bride Quotes Buttercup Field

It’s the sort of book you read and film you watch multiple times, each time pocketing a new quotable line. Here are ten great Princess Bride quotes.

Filed Under: Fairytales, Quotes

Common Core Picture Poems: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

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Common Core Picture Poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost featured

Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. Today we consider Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.”

Filed Under: Common Core Poems, English Teaching Resources, poetry teaching resources, Robert Frost

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines (3)

We’ve been taking a daily “dip into poetry” sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter. Come discover the power of a single line.

Filed Under: Blog, Dip into Poetry, Every Day Poems, poetry

How We Celebrated Poem on Your Pillow Day

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Poem on Your Pillow Day

We celebrated the first annual Poem on Your Pillow Day this week, complete with guest pillows, poetic pillow cases and untamed shrieks of glee.

Filed Under: Blog, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry, Poetry at Home

Pillow History You Never Knew—Perfect for Poem on Your Pillow Day!

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poem on Your Pillow Day

It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day! Learn the pillow’s history and the connection between hope, feathers, and pillows and celebrate sweet poetry dreams with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry

This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top Ten Poetic Picks

Former teen poet becomes President. Poetry is dead, again? Elastic ekphrastics and the challenges of diversity in publishing. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

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Twitter Poems Top 10 Poetic Tweets

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

Top 10 Reasons to Re-Read ‘Rumors of Water’

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Top Ten Reasons to Read Rumors of Water

What’s your favorite writing book? LW Lindquist says it’s time to re-read Rumors of Water and has 10 great quotes to tell you why.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Rumors of Water, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 104 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 104

The Shakespeare Files is a collection of annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. Today, it’s Shakespeare’s Sonnet 104.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Top 10 Best Chicken Poems

By Will Willingham

Top 10 Chicken Poems

If Google search is any indication, the world is looking for chicken poetry. Here are 10 chicken poems to make the search easier. (Or at least more fun.)

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, National Poetry Month, National Poultry Month, poetry

A More Beautiful Question: Taking the Brain Off High Alert

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

A More Beautiful Question Book Club (2)

What if we took our brains off ‘high alert’ and thought long enough to develop an original idea? Our discussion of A More Beautiful Question concludes today.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, Blog, book club, Creativity

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

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

the best in poetry

Writing conferences pert’near South Dakota, making carrots into clarinets, art you can’t see unless it’s raining. It has to be our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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

A More Beautiful Question: Improving the Questions We Ask

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

A More Beautiful Question book club

In this week’s book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question, ‘ we consider how to improve our questions before we jump to answer them.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, Blog, book club, Creativity

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Twitter Poems

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

A More Beautiful Question: What If You Sleep On It? (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Think you can do your work in your sleep? Warren Berger suggests that we might do our best creative thinking when we’re asleep. Join us for our A More Beautiful Question book club discussion.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Creativity

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