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Poetic Voices: Chelsea Rathburn and Kristina Marie Darling

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Two recent collections by Chelsea Rathburn and Kristina Marie Darling both deal with grief, but it is a grief different from that over physical death.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Grief Poems, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

The Poetry of World War I

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

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Tim Kendall’s anthology “Poetry of the First World War” explains how poetry came to be so connected with “the war to end all wars.”

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

Poem Analysis: Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach

By Sara Barkat 16 Comments

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“The sea is calm tonight…” An evocative poem analysis focusing on the imagery in Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. Insightful and helpful…

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Grief Poems, Humanity Poems, Poem Analysis, Sea Poems, Student Writing

Interview with Poet Patty Paine (Part 2): Poetry Can Save You

By Maureen Doallas 7 Comments

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Poet Patty Paine confides that “poetry, the reading and the writing of it, has saved my life.”

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Interview, poetry, Poets

The Poetry of Walking, History and Houses

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Poetry of walking, houses

A stroll, even in familiar neighborhoods, can prompt reflection, imagination, discovery, and insight. Perhaps it could be called the poetry of walking.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets, Writing in Place

Coming Home to Scotland and Scottish Poetry

By Ann Kroeker 39 Comments

Castle Clouds Scotland Scottish Poetry

Surprised by Scotland, a writer finds herself taken by her past, her present with Scottish poets, and maybe (who knows) her future.

Filed Under: Blog, George MacDonald, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Poetry

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Regime Change

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

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There is poetry at work in the most convulsive of organizational upheavals, often called regime change. Charles Bukowski’s poem helps understanding.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Grief Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poets

Poets and Poems: Grace Schulman’s “Without a Claim”

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

Poets and Poems Grace Schulman Without a Claim

Grace Schulman’s new collection of poems “Without a Claim” creates quiet repose in the face of discontinuity. Can poets and poems make sense of this?

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

Night Poetry: Darkness and Villanelle Poems

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

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Try your hand at a night poem that easily captures the ambiguity of darkness, simply by virtue of its form.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Poems, Father Poems, Grief Poems, love poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects

Poets and Poems: R.S. Thomas’s “Poems to Elsi”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Poets and Poems: Poems to Elsi by R.S. Thomas

Poets and Poems looks at “Poems to Elsi” by R.S. Thomas, which provides insight into the Thomas marriage of more than 50 years.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poets

Poets and Poems: Jean Sprackland’s “Sleeping Keys”

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Jean Sprackland’s “Sleeping Keys” quietly underscores the importance of what lies unrecognized and forgotten—a thoughtful selection for Poets and Poems.

Filed Under: article, Blog, Books, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Ghazal Poetry: Sing the Old Songs

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Ghazal Poetry Oryx in Desert

Ghazal poetry was traditionally a sung form, invoking other traditional symbols like the gazelle. Invoke an old song image for your own?

Filed Under: Blog, Ghazal Poems, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects

Tattoo Poetry: Inked with an Author Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

Tattoo Poetry

Get inked with your author; give us a poem that tells the tale.

Filed Under: Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Blue Suede Shoes

By T.S. Poetry 10 Comments

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What kinda shoes rock you? Put ’em in a poem, and rock us too.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock and Roll, Rock Song Poems, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Poetry Classroom: After

By Marjorie Maddox 10 Comments

Dandelion Grief Poetry

Want a great poetry discussion? Start with simple breathing.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems

Poetry Classroom: Meteorology

By Marjorie Maddox 17 Comments

Poetry Storm Clouds

Welcome to our poetry classroom with Marjorie Maddox Hafer. Today we’re discussing the relief in a storm.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Weather Poems

Poetry for Isaac and Ishmael

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

This is not the poetry of Mideast politics but the poetry of people – peoples – caught up in Mideast politics, whether the scene is set in the Auschwitz death camp or the Aida refugee camp.

Filed Under: article, Blog, book reviews, Family Poems, Father Poems, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Short Poems, Spiritual Poems

I See You in There: the Villanelle

By David K Wheeler 20 Comments

Red Feathers How to Write a Villanelle

Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange

Filed Under: Grief Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Villanelles, writer's group resources

Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]

Filed Under: article, Blog, book reviews, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, School Poems

National Poetry Month: Edgar Allan Poe

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Edgar Allan Poe published his 1st poetry collection in 1827, at 18 years old. A tendency to run up debts & gamble kept him in constant state of reinvention.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry, Sea Poems

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