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To Kill a Mockingbird’s Boo Radley: A Poetic Secret Message

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

Imagine the secrets of Boo Radley, get creative & put your imagination into a poem. Read a To Kill a Mockingbird poem by Tania Runyan first, to get started!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, To Kill a Mockingbird, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poets and Poems: Laura Reece Hogan and “Litany of Flights”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

“Litany of Flights” by Laura Reece Hogan leaves us with a sense of wonder, the same wonder we feel when we see mountains for the first time.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry Prompt: Poems of Experience

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Let your Took side win, and follow it on an adventure.

“The Hobbit” is more than a book for children. Callie Feyen considers how to learn from Bilbo and write poems of experience.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Living, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Romeo and Juliet, Tolkien, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

How Blogging Works for Writers: Think Seasons

By Megan Willome 10 Comments

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Author Megan Willome shares how blogging works, through seasons, and why she is currently letting the space lie fallow.

Filed Under: Author Websites, Blog, poetry, Writing Life

Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Kissed

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

the tea

Get your favorite steep (or brew) & join us in writing a poem based on a line from “Kissed” by David Malone: “You held my name in your coat.”

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Poetry Club Tea Date, poetry prompt

Generosity with Self: When You’re In The Wrong Story

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Tuscany landscape for Henry VI & Generosity

Callie Feyen reflects on Henry VI and encourages Winchester to be generous enough with himself to leave when he’s in the wrong story.

Filed Under: Blog, Generous, Shakespeare

A Book of Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay Finds Its Way Home

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

A 1927 book of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay finds its way home to the family of the original owner.

Filed Under: article, Books, poetry, Poets

The Generativity of Wild Things: On Rethinking Our Relationship With Money

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Have you ever thought—really thought—about how money works? The wild things have something to teach us. And it starts with sugar.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Generous

Children’s Book Club: ‘Katy and the Big Snow’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

snow storm Mt. Fuji

Read “Katie and the Big Snow” by Virginia Lee Burton, a story of a snow plow named Katie that makes life a little easier during a crisis.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Great Gatsby Fashion: Jay Gatsby Goes to Goodwill

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

The Great Gatsby Fashion Vintage 1920s Party-George Barbier "Au Revoir"

Learn a little about Great Gatsby fashion, then get creative and put your learning into a poem. Read a Gatsby poem by Tania Runyan first, to get started!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, The Great Gatsby, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poets and Poems: Troy Cady and “Featherdusting the Moon”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The 100 poems of “Featherdusting the Moon” by Troy Cady exhibit a sense of play, accompanied by a sense of wisdom and humility.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Play, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry Prompt: ‘Twelfth Night’ and the Fool

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What do you do when reading (or living) a difficult story? Callie Feyen suggests you consider poetry and Shakespeare’s Fool from ‘Twelfth Night.’

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

Book Club Announcement: The Reindeer Chronicles

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Winter sunrise over bare trees for Reindeer Chronicles book club

We start our 2021 book club season with a title to help us work with the language of crisis and stories of possibility in the Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Reindeer Chronicles

Reading Generously: ‘How We Fight for Our Lives’ by Saeed Jones

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Fishermen at Sunset Sandy Hook New Jersey

This month our book review column becomes Reading Generously. We begin with Saeed Jones’ open-handed memoir.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Black Poets, Blog, book reviews, Reading Generously

Pandemic Journal: War is Over (If You Want It)

By Richard Maxson 3 Comments

Pandemic Journal - photo of Mt. Kinabalu above misty clouds

As we enter the new year, Every Day Poems editor Richard Maxson considers how we have persisted in a difficult year, and how we continue, if we want it.

Filed Under: Blog, Pandemic Journal

Poet Laura: The Generosity of the Earth

By Laura Boggess 3 Comments

Poet Laura - bench by water in leafy woods

As we leave 2020, our Poet Laura reflects on the generosity of the earth to her inhabitants, and considers ways to give back to the earth. Earth poetry included!

Filed Under: Blog, Generous, Nature Poems, Poet Laura

How J.R.R. Tolkien Met an Obligation – with Poetry

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

After his childhood friend Geoffrey Bache Smith died in World War I, J.R.R. Tolkien self-imposed an obligation to publish Smith’s poetry.

Filed Under: article, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets, Tolkien

Fiction Prompt: Chapter Four, Into the Gray with Campfire Pies

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Our fiction series continues as Carter moves deeper into the gray, with campfire pies. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 4.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

By Heart: ‘Everything Is Going To Be All Right’ + New W.H. Auden Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Death Valley with sunrise

A pandemic is a perfect time to learn a poem By Heart, especially Derek Mahon’s “Everything Is Going To Be All Right.”

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Pandemic Journal

Books on Writing: A Line of Words

By Rebecca D. Martin Leave a Comment

Bird in wintry tree

Annie Dillard, Madeleine L’Engle, Charity Singleton Craig and Andrew Peterson guide Rebecca D. Martin on a wander through the writing books on her shelf.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

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