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House & Home Poetry Prompt: The Kitchen

By Heather Eure 8 Comments

Kitchen Poetry Stove Top Burner

Come in to our kitchen and let us pour you a cup of coffee while we discuss the heart of the home and create poetry. Join us!

Filed Under: Blog, House&Home, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

A Foolproof Guide to Getting Your Poems Published—While Having Fun!

By Susan Rich 24 Comments

How to Publish Your Poems and Have Fun - Susan Rich - Tweetspeak Poetry

Susan Rich found a way to enjoy the task of submitting poems, playing a form of the license plate game. You, too, can get your poems published and have fun.

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Getting Published, Writing Life

Top 10 Dip into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Dip Into Poetry

We enjoy a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to dip into poetry with us. Check our our favorite 10 lines from the last few months.

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

2016 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Poetry at Work Day poster without ID jpeg

As we prepare for this year’s Poetry at Work Day, we are delighted to offer you our new Poetry at Work Day poster for 2016.

Filed Under: poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day

Poets and Poems: Dave Harrity and “These Intricacies”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Dave Harrity Poems Barn in Sunrise Fog

In his new collection of poems, Dave Harrity tells stories with simplicity and clarity, firmly planted in his Kentucky landscape.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

House & Home Playlist and Prompt

By Heather Eure 15 Comments

house-and-home

Get cozy in your favorite chair and enjoy some new tunes and a brand-new theme. This week’s prompt is all about a place called home.

Filed Under: Blog, House&Home, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

And the Book, Tea & Panera Winners Are!

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Everything that Makes You Mom Wings

Who won the most amazing tea and a lovely gift book for mom? Stop in and see.

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Strolling through Watership Down: Richard Adams

By Heather Eure 4 Comments

A Stroll through the Downs: Richard Adams

Meeting the author of a favorite childhood book, Watership Down, a young Heather Eure is inspired in her own quest to be a writer.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Classic Books

Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes—The Whopper Edition

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes

Can you put a little poetry into the NASDAQ? Give it a try with a found poem line or poem starter from an issue of Forbes.

Filed Under: Blog, Forbes Found Poems, Found Poems, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry prompt

The Heart’s Affections: On Loving Pearl Jenkins

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Fiction Character Pearl Jenkins

In fiction, are characters there to make the plot happen, or does it work the other way around? Adjustments’ Pearl Jenkins gives us a clue.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

A Month with Keats: Keats and Wentworth House

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Our Keats Walk finally takes us to Wentworth House, now known as Keats House, where John Keats wrote some of his greatest poems.

Filed Under: Blog, John Keats, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, Poets

Math, Science, Technology Prompt: My Devices

By Heather Eure 7 Comments

Girl Waiting for Train Tokyo Cell Phone

The connection we share with our electronic devices is a bond few can break. This week’s poetry prompt explores the love of technology.

Filed Under: Blog, Math-Science-Technology, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Book, Tea & Panera Certificate Giveaway!

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Everything that Makes You Mom Thanksgiving Giveaway

We’re wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving with a beautiful book, tea, and toast Thanksgiving giveaway!

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Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Twitter Poems Top 10 Poetic Tweets (2)

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, Twitter poetry

Harvey Dunn and the Strong Women of the Prairie

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Harvey Dunn The Prairie is My Garden (Image courtesy of South Dakota Art Museum)

A cross-artistic collaboration celebrates the work of Harvey Dunn through poetry, dance, music, drama and animation at South Dakota State University.

Filed Under: Art Education & Theory, Blog, Poems, Prairie Poems, South Dakota

A Month of Keats: Keats and Hampstead Heath

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The poet John Keats is intimately connected with Hampstead Heath, and our Keats Walk in Hampstead in north London traces many of the paths he followed.

Filed Under: Blog, John Keats, Nature Poems, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

Math, Science, & Technology Poetry Prompt: Wider Than the Sky

By Heather Eure 13 Comments

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Will a computer ever surpass the capacity of the brain? This week’s poetry prompt invites you to consider the binary mind.

Filed Under: Blog, Math-Science-Technology, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Regional Tour: Homestead National Monument, Beatrice, Nebraska

By Michelle DeRusha 1 Comment

Michelle DeRusha visits Homestead National Monument in Nebraska and wonders about the pioneers who came to the west and those who were forced to leave.

Filed Under: Blog, Regional Tour

Top 10 Fall Poems

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top 10 Fall Poems

Welcome Autumn (and make it last a little longer) with this great collection of Fall poems from Shakespeare to Keats to Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Fall Poems, Poems

From Delphi to Camden: James Whitcomb Riley

By Charity Singleton Craig 9 Comments

James Whitcomb Riley From Dephi to Camden

Charity Singleton Craig reflects on following the ghost of James Whitcomb Riley through Hoosier country.

Filed Under: Blog, Indiana Tour, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, Regional Tour, Train poems

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