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Amazing San Francisco Street Art. What’s Your Expression?

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

San Francisco Street Art Guatemalan

Walk with us through the streets of San Francisco. See the amazing street art. And choose your expression.

Filed Under: Art, Expressions, Literary Tour

Mischief Cafe: Seattle, Washington

By L.L. Barkat 24 Comments

Dandelion in Fall Mischief Cafe

The 11-day Mischief Cafe tour begins, and the defining quality will be surprise (with plenty of hilarity to go along with it).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

twitter poems top 10 poetic tweets

Looking for poetry on Twitter? We’ve made it easy for you, with this roundup of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in the past few weeks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

An Evening with Billy Collins

By Glynn Young 25 Comments

Poet Billy Collins read from his new volume, “Aimless Love, ” in St. Louis County, Missouri on Nov. 1; more than 800 people came for an intimate evening.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Dog Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

Whittles and Wood Prompt: Photo Play 2

By Heather Eure 41 Comments

Whittles and Wood 2

Join us for a walk in the woods and a little leaf-peeping. Explore the Photo Play contributions from our community & share your poetry with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Whittles & Wood Poems, writing prompts

Literary Tours: Muir Woods National Monument, San Francisco

By Dolly Lee 8 Comments

Muir Woods literary tour

In today’s literary tour, hike the Muir Woods National Monument in northern California with Dolly Lee.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Tour

Get Your Free Official 2015 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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This year’s official Poetry at Work Day poster, suitable for hanging in your workplace (or framing in your kitchen, which may even be your workplace), is now available.

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

Everyone Has Imagination: Interview with Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison (Part 3)

By Maureen Doallas 4 Comments

interview colorado poet laureate joseph hutchison part 3

Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison doesn’t want poets to make a living writing poetry. Find out why in Maureen Doallas’s final interview segment.

Filed Under: Blog, Interviews, poetry teaching resources

The World War I Poets in the War

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Max Egremont’s “Some Desperate Glory” combines history, biography and poetry to describe the World War I that the war poets experienced.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Poems, poetry, Poets, war poems

Whittles and Wood: Photo Play and Prompt

By Heather Eure 37 Comments

whittles and wood

The grand flourish of Autumn trees signal the final act before winter’s arrival. Join us for Photo Play as we capture the dramatic stagecraft of nature.

Filed Under: Blog, Photo Play, Photography prompts, Themed Writing Projects, Whittles & Wood Poems, writing prompts

The Office of Poetry Grievances

By Charity Singleton Craig 19 Comments

Office of Poetry Grievances

Do you have a grievance to file against poetry? Charity Singleton Craig is staffing the Office of Poetry Grievances today.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Top Ten #DipIntoPoetry Lines from Every Day Poems

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Top 10 Dip into Poetry Lines

We’ve been taking a daily “dip into poetry” with Every Day Poems. Come discover the power of a line in our Top Ten Dip into Poetry Lines.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, poetry

Let Go of What You Mean to Say: Interview with Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison (Part 2)

By Maureen Doallas 6 Comments

interview colorado poet laureate joseph hutchison

“Most adults have suffered from ‘imaginal abuse, ‘” says Joseph Hutchison. Read more on poetic imagination in Part 2 of Maureen Doallas’s interview with the Colorado poet laureate.

Filed Under: Blog, Interviews, poetry teaching resources

Poets and Poems: Siegfried Sassoon and “The War Poems”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

TSP Dover lighthouse

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived World War I and went on to a successful literary career, but he is best remembered for “the War Poems.”

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, war poems

Whittles & Wood: Poetry Prompt and Playlist

By Heather Eure 34 Comments

Wood and Whittles

We’ve searched far & wide to find just the right songs for you in our latest poetry prompt & playlist. Listen along & sharpen your poetic carving skills.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Whittles & Wood Poems, writing prompts

Memoir Notebook: The Worst Kind of Luck

By Darrelyn Saloom 60 Comments

memoir notebook darrelyn saloom

Darrelyn Saloom recalls her mother, Billie Burnside and the Circle Inn lounge in this poignant entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

The Mischief Cafe: Basking Ridge, New Jersey

By L.L. Barkat 19 Comments

Mischief Cafe Cinnamon Toast

The very first Mischief Cafe had everything one might expect: tea, toast, poetry. And not a few unexpected moments (and black feathers).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, poetry teaching resources

Top 10 Quotes from ‘On Being a Writer’!

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

On Being a Writer by Kroeker and Craig

Ten great quotes from the new (surprise!) release from T.S. Poetry Press: “On Being a Writer by Ann Kroeker and Charity Singleton Craig.

Filed Under: Books, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources

Why Teach Poetry? Interview with Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison (Part 1)

By Maureen Doallas 10 Comments

why teach poetry poet laureate joseph hutchison

“If we taught poetry as a way of knowing, students wouldn’t have to ask why they should study it.” Maureen Doallas interviews Colorado poet laureate Joseph Hutchison.

Filed Under: Blog, Interviews, poetry

The Poems the Soldiers Read in World War I

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

World War I was a conflict made for poetry, and it made a lot of it. But what did the soldiers themselves read?

Filed Under: Courage Poems, Humanity Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets, war poems

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