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Poetry Comics: The Poetry Industry

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Poetry Industrial Park Comic by Lyla Willingham Lindquist

Did you know? The Poetry Industry has its own park.

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The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files, Sonnets

Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day. Why should kids have all the fun? Your poet wants to go to work with you too.

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

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poetry Feather bowl

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.

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WordCandy Sweet Bloggers Roundup: Truffles

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Our WordCandy Sweet Bloggers have lifted another collection of chocolate truffles from the beautiful quote box.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Quotes, WordCandy

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It’s poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: lights and mysteries

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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Join us as we wrap up our discussion of ‘poemcrazy’ with woolly mammoth, vikings, and writing to save your life.

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National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Open the Window

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

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Poems and dreams gather fragments of our days and piece them back together in whimsical, even frightening ways. Join us for our latest ‘poemcrazy’ discussion.

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10 Fun Shakespeare Resources Online

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shakespeare Resources

In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, enjoy this fun collection of Shakespeare resources from around the web.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, writer's group resources

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.

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National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Hi There Stars

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

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Sometimes poetry is just begging not to be understood. In this week’s ‘poemcrazy’ book club installment, we’re invited to ‘not think, not understand.’

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National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Listening to Ourselves

By Will Willingham 31 Comments

We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together at Tweetspeak for National Poetry Month. This week, we talk about listening to ourselves.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poemcrazy, poetry, writer's group resources

Artist Date: Suds

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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Take an Artist Date in the frigid early spring air above a spillway pulsating with rich white foam.

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WordCandy Sweet Bloggers: Spring Sugar Peeps

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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We’re enjoying our new Spring Sugar Peeps at WordCandy. We hear they’re good frozen. Stop by this month’s Sweet Blogger roundup for sweet poetry and quotes.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Quotes, WordCandy

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: following words

By Will Willingham 50 Comments

national poetry month poemcrazy

We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together this month at Tweetspeak. Are you reading along?

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The Poetics of Learning (and Loving) Language

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

The earthy poetry of Pablo Neruda hands me words I’ve never heard, but that make perfect and instant sense, words I was looking for without knowing.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry

How to Write a Pantoum Infographic: Pantoum of the Opera

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

Writing a pantoum doesn’t have to be like being dragged to the catacombs. Just follow Erik and Christine’s helpful pantoum infographic and you’ll be out of the dungeon in no time.

Filed Under: Blog, Infographics, Pantoum, Pantoum Poems, poetry teaching resources

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Artist Date: Freezing Rain

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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Freezing rain and an ice storm in progress provided a sensory treat for an unexpected Artist Date.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog, Creativity

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