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Write the Best Essays, for Profit or Pleasure—Starts Aug 31!

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

Pen in Book Write the Best Essays Workshop

Now you can write the best essays, for pleasure or profit, with the guidance of a professional author and essay writer. Great workshop opportunity!

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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.

Filed Under: Blog, Books

How to Write a Poetry Review

By Glynn Young 16 Comments

Horse Shoes How to Write a Poetry Review

One approach for how to write a poetry review is to follow the “Five Ws and One H” that flowed from the journalism philosophy of Walter Lippman.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, How to Write a Review, poetry reviews, poetry teaching resources

Ship, Sail, Boat: Build a Boat of Poetry

By Heather Eure 14 Comments

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This week, we explore a poem by T.S. Eliot prize-winner, Philip Gross, “The Boat Made of Poems.” Gather your tools & craft a boat of your poetry with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Boat Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poems about writing, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Sail, Ship, Ship-Sail-Boat, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Memoir Notebook: Too Close for Comfort

By Darrelyn Saloom 25 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry - Memoir Notebook Too Close for Comfort Darrelyn Saloom little girl blonde hair blue eyes

Darrelyn Saloom reveals childhood fears, both macro–the Cold War–and micro–her stepfather’s anger–in this entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

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

Poets and Poems: Susan Lewis

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Poet Susan Lewis asks how we can fully understand each other, and she does it within the frameworks of both prose poetry and the more familiar verse form.

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

Ship, Sail, Boat: Ship Of the Old School Poetry & Photo Prompt

By Heather Eure 24 Comments

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In this week’s poetry prompt, we take a closer look at the intricacies of boats and ships. Are they monuments of history or do they seem a bit more human?

Filed Under: Blog, Boat Poems, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Sail, Sea Poems, Ship, Ship-Sail-Boat, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Win $100 with Your Poet at a Coffee Shop GIF!

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

Win-100-Coffee-Shop-Take-Your-Poet-to-Work-GIF

Can you make a GIF? Then you could win $100 for going to your favorite coffee shop with your poet, and making a GIF by Tuesday, July 14, 2015.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Regional Tours: Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, Denton, Nebraska

By Michelle DeRusha 15 Comments

Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center cone flower

Explore the subtle beauty of the Nebraska prairie in Michelle DeRusha’s literary tour to Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, Denton, Nebraska.

Filed Under: Blog, Regional Tour

Creativity Inside the Box: The Freedom of Constraint

By Charity Singleton Craig 12 Comments

Creativity inside the box blue park benches

Would imposing constraints help or hinder your creativity? Charity Singleton Craig explores both sides of working inside and thinking outside the box.

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

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

The 6 Most Overused Words in Poetry Reviews

By Glynn Young 63 Comments

Six words are nominated for the “Most Overused Words in Poetry Reviews Hall of Fame.” And three more are contenders.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry humor, poetry reviews, poetry teaching resources

Ship, Sail, Boat: Playlist & Prompt

By Heather Eure 25 Comments

Ship Sail Boat Songs Playlist Colorful Painted Boats

Listen along with us to this month’s playlist. It features dozens of songs that will help you lose sight of the shore. Be sure to join us for a poetry prompt while we learn a little about structure through the poem, Sea Fever by John Masefield.

Filed Under: Blog, Boat Poems, Playlist, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Sea Poems, Ship-Sail-Boat, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Casual (The E-book is Here!)

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

Casual Jeans Susan Etole

You wanted us to publish your work in an e-book. We listened. Casual: A Little Book of Jeans Poem and Photos is here!

Filed Under: Blog, E-books

The Windhover, by Hopkins: Sound, Image, Meaning

By Sara Barkat 6 Comments

Gold Vermilion Feathers The Windhover Essay Gerard Manley Hopkins

What does The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins, mean? Closer to myth than allegory, the possibilities are layered.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Analysis

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

Poetic Voices: Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

In recent collections Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs deal with the sense of place – contemporary Israel and the places of childhood and imagination.

Filed Under: book reviews, Childhood Poems, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

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