Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a quick poem based on Kim Addonizio’s “My Heart.” Her heart is a Mississippi chicken shack. What’s yours?
Beautiful Spaces: Interview with Poet Claire Coenen
Meet poet Claire Coenen, and enter the spaces she cultivates, as well as the spaces that the poets she loves have cultivated for her.
Poetry Prompt: Sink or Swim
How do you learn best in life? Maybe you prefer to be pushed into a sink or swim situation. Or maybe you prefer a choice (and a gentle approach). Let’s poem our way into sink or swim!
Poet Laura: Chocolate Elemental
This month Michelle Rinaldi Ortega, our Poet Laura, explores flower-infused dark chocolate and writes chocolate poems.
Poetry Club: Notebook It
You needn’t always be taking big steps to develop a meaningful, life-altering poetry practice. That’s why we love this simplest of ideas.
Once Upon a Poet: An Interview with Laurie Klein
The seeds of poetry saved Laurie Klein. And now she’s counting doors in ways you’ll want to hear about.
Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—6: Trust
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The Poetry Club: Bookmark It
In this month’s poetry club, we’re saving the “possibility” from poems. On our very own bookmarks—to keep or give away!
A Taste of Honey, Poetry & Love—An Interview with Laura Boggess
Author Laura Boggess tells us the secret of where her story of honey, poetry, and love came from. She also shares her thoughts on “Why love?”
Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—5: How Not to Drown
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Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—4: Lilt
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Poet Laura: The Tapestry of Poetry
In this month’s Poet Laura, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega visits the Met Cloisters and invites readers to pen a Mixtape poem.
Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Threshold
In this poetry club tea date, we encounter a threshold. What will we find there? What will you find at your own threshold—that you can put in a poem?
Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—3:Flashbacks
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Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—2: Meet Kid Larkin
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Poetry Prompt: Color Palette & Aestheticism
What is aestheticism? Learn a little about this movement in art and literature. Then call on color to create a beautiful poem of your own.
Poet Laura: Moon Landing
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega continues her Poet Laura journey, taking us on a lunar flyby writing and sharing some moon poems.
Poems to Listen By: Buoyancies—1: Casting Off
Laurie Klein reads “Everything Begins in Water” in a new audio series, Buoyancies, featuring work from her new collection, House of 49 Doors: Entries in a Life.
Poetry Prompt: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Do you remember the “how does your garden grow” line from the nursery rhyme? Come write a poem and plant what you want in it.
Poems to Listen By: Earth Song—9: But You Thought You Knew
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