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Poets and Poems: Mark Burrows and “The Chance for Home”

By Glynn Young Leave a Comment

cranes Mark Burrows and the Chance for Home

To read “The Chance for Home” by Mark Burrows is to immerse oneself in the quiet beauty of memory, experience, reflection, and, ultimately, hope.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Athena Kildegaard and “Course”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Birds Athena Kildegaard and Course

The poems of “Course” by Athena Kildegaard provide a kind of natural sanctuary, where one comes to watch and to listen to what the landscape has to say.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Birthdays & Birthstones Poetry Prompt: A Rossetti List Poem

By Kortney Garrison 16 Comments

Rossetti Catalog Poem: Balloons

Come write poetry inspired by Christina Rossetti’s list poem “The Months” and see if you like how she describes your birthday month.

Filed Under: Birthdays and Birth Stones, Blog, Nature Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner: Maria A. Esguerra

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Poetry for Life scholarship - mountain landscape

We announce the winner of this year’s Poetry for Life Scholarship, Maria A. Esguerra.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poetry for Life

Regional Tour: Of Alligators and Everglades

By Sandra Heska King 7 Comments

Alligator evergladesAlligator everglades

Sandra Heska King has all the adventure—and alligators—she could ever want right in her own backyard, in the Everglades.

Filed Under: Blog, nature, Nature Poems, Regional Tour

Poets and Poems: Michelle Menting and “Leaves Surface Like Skin”

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Red Maple Leaf Michelle Menting

The poems of ‘Leaves Surface Like Skin” by Michelle Menting use the images and metaphors of nature to explore and explain the human condition.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

The First Poetry for Children: “Divine Emblems” by John Bunyan

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Boy kneeling Divine Emblems

In 1686, the English Puritan minister and writer John Bunyan published what we know today as “Divine Emblems,” the first book of poetry for children.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Childhood Poems, children, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Regional Tour: Borrowed Time at the Maui Ocean Center

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Maui Ocean Center

A trip to Maui Ocean Center’s vast aquarium offers opportunity for Laurie Klein to contemplate how a place can envelop as well as imprint itself on the soul.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Regional Tour, Sea Poems

Poetic Voices: Susan Lewis and Shanna Powlus Wheeler

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Frosty leaves Poetic Voices Lewis Wheeler

Susan Lewis develops a theme of uncertainty in “Heisenberg’s Salon”; Shanna Powlus Wheeler interprets childhood and memory in “Lo & Behold.”

Filed Under: article, Childhood Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Science Poems

Jen Karetnick: Pondering the Often Invisible

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Seashore Jen Karetnick

In two new poetry collections, poet Jen Karetnick asks us to consider the reality behind what is often invisible, be it illness or climate change.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Fishing Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets, Sea Poems

Coloring Page Poems: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Longfellow The Tide Rises coloring page - boat by seaside

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.”

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, Sea Poems

Norman Nicholson: Poetry of Landscape and the Environment

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Norman Nicholson

British poet Norman Nicholson deserves to be remembered for his beautiful poems of the Cumbrian and western Lake District landscape.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Nature Poems, Poems, Poets

Profile of Photographer Pai-Shih Lee

By Charity Singleton Craig 8 Comments

Learn more about the man behind the camera of some of the most breathtaking images you’ll see featured at Tweetspeak Poetry, Taiwanese photographer Pai-Shih Lee.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Photographer, Nature Poems

Take Your Poet to Work: Seamus Heaney

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Seamus Heaney cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Seamus Heaney, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Top 10 Garden Poems

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Top 10 Garden poems - red maple leaf in green ferns

While you wait for your flowers to bloom and your garden to produce its fruit, enjoy this collection of 10 great garden poems.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, Blog, Flower Poems, Garden Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: William Wordsworth

By Will Willingham 19 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - William Wordsworth Featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! We kick off the release of this year’s poet collection with English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

Filed Under: Blog, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, William Wordsworth

Be Our Poetry Buddy: “Moonrise” by D. H. Lawrence

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

D. H. Lawrence Moonrise

Extend the Joy of Poetry by being our Poetry Buddy. This week, we’re reading “Moonrise” by D. H. Lawrence together. Join us?

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, The Joy of Poetry

Top 10 Night Poems

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Top 10 Night Poems silver grass against night sky

Poets have forever been writing about the night, both those things that go bump and the things that delight. Enjoy a sampling in this collection of 10 great night poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Dream Poems, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Night Poems, Poems, poetry

Top 10 Poems About Wood

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poems About Wood rough fence post with wire

How many poems would a woodchuck write if a woodchuck could write poems? We have ten great poems about wood to make any woodchuck smile.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Tree Poems

Coloring Page Poems: The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Coloring Page Poems The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush.”

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources

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