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May Play: Results

By Matthew Kreider 8 Comments

May Play began with a chance conversation with the owner of a candy shop.

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June Jazz: Improv

By Matthew Kreider 25 Comments

Light pours through the west end and floods the wooden floors of our home. James is in the front room, dancing. His clunky, horse-like heels stomp to a syncopated rhythm, following the dizzy-eyed direction of his four-year-old vision, rather than my music.

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May Play: Stretching

By Matthew Kreider 20 Comments

Sometimes we start poetry with a history of strains and tight muscles. For many of us, this month’s May Play felt like therapy, a chance to purge ourselves of some lactic acid and develop more elasticity.

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May Play: Conversations

By Matthew Kreider 37 Comments

Leah wasn’t quite ready to play. Sharing her poetry still felt like a risk.

A few months ago she discovered Every Day Poems and began clicking around. She spent $2.99 on our poetry daily subscription. She found intriguing writing prompts and colorful features. Most importantly, she encountered conversations.

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May Play: Spontaneity

By Matthew Kreider 17 Comments

The elementary school and playground which captivated my attention as a child was torn down many years ago. A bench surrounded by flowers is all that remains.

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My “Poem-ography”

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Who – what poems – would comprise your “poem-ography?”

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May Play: Sharing

By Matthew Kreider 20 Comments

Win some chocolate with your Every Day Poems story.

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Image-ine: Curves

By Claire Haidar 10 Comments

This feverish afternoon opened my heart to the magnificence of the human form: mostly the beauty of the female curve, the contours of her mountainous landscape. Recently, poetry re-awakened this for me, brought it into my present.

Filed Under: Every Day Poems, Image-ine, poetry

May Play: Invitation

By Matthew Kreider 14 Comments

We’ll read your tweets and feature some plates of your weekly play each week. There’s nothing sweeter than sharing.

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Journey into Poetry: Reno K. Lawrence

By Reno K. Lawrence 14 Comments

For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing poetry, brainstorming lines. I imagine the right-brained play is overflowing into my creative process on the job.

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Writing Prompt: Red #9

By L.L. Barkat 3 Comments

Writing prompt: try a fairy tale poem of your own today?

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 12 Comments

Check out our Top 10 poetic picks this week, with Matthew Kreider showing the way.

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Leaving the Radio On, and Other Rituals

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

Maybe could write your own “radio ritual” poem?

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We Made a Word Bowl, Just for You

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

‎If the Super Bowl begs for nachos and dip, the WORD BOWL begs for wine, cheese, and the renegade Cheeto

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Secret Poetry Love Notes

By L.L. Barkat Leave a Comment

Today I received so many little love notes, I just had to let you know.

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Coming of Age: The Stolen Child

By L.L. Barkat 3 Comments

Can you see how the poem “The Stolen Child” embodies a struggle to grow up?

Filed Under: Every Day Poems, poems about writing

What is Poetry?

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Poetry is, of course, art put into lines.

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Sonnets Born in Closets and Cheetos Bags

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Never one to miss an opportunity, James Cummins wrote me a sonnet I am fondly calling the “Closet Cheetos Poem.”

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What They Saw by the Sea

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

I love technical facility in poetry, but I do not publish poems that trot it out and forget the human touch.

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Waiting for the Every Day

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

I love these little notes I get behind the scenes, about Every Day Poems.

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