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Circus and Carnival Prompt: A Kids-Eye-View
This week, ignore any suggestions to “grow up.” Join us as we explore the circus & carnival with a kids-eye-view. Writing your poem in crayon is optional. After you share your poem with us, feel free to put it on your fridge.
Circus & Carnival Poetry and Photo Prompt: Run Away With the Circus
This week, our prompt encourages you to run away with the circus. You can be a lion tamer, an acrobat, anything! Write a poem about your new adventure.
Circus & Carnival Prompt: Circus Animals
Behold the spectacle of exotic animals from the four corners of the world. Join us under the big top for this week’s poetry prompt about circus animals.
Circus & Carnival Poetry Prompt: Deep Fried and On a Stick
This week’s Circus & Carnival poetry prompt celebrates a guilty pleasure: Carnival food. Where else can you write a poem about corn dogs?
Circus & Carnival: Playlist and Prompt
This month’s playlist and prompt features the excitement of the circus & carnival. Click play and join the wild ride. Admission is always free.
Ship, Sail, Boat: The Age of Sea Shanties Poetry Prompt
Step back to the age of sailing & learn about the folk style of sea shanties. Join us & write one of your own. Here’s an opportunity to complain about work!
How to Write a Poetry Review
One approach for how to write a poetry review is to follow the “Five Ws and One H” that flowed from the journalism philosophy of Walter Lippman.
Ship, Sail, Boat: Build a Boat of Poetry
This week, we explore a poem by T.S. Eliot prize-winner, Philip Gross, “The Boat Made of Poems.” Gather your tools & craft a boat of your poetry with us.
Ship, Sail, Boat: Ship Of the Old School Poetry & Photo Prompt
In this week’s poetry prompt, we take a closer look at the intricacies of boats and ships. Are they monuments of history or do they seem a bit more human?
The 6 Most Overused Words in Poetry Reviews
Six words are nominated for the “Most Overused Words in Poetry Reviews Hall of Fame.” And three more are contenders.
Ship, Sail, Boat: Playlist & Prompt
Listen along with us to this month’s playlist. It features dozens of songs that will help you lose sight of the shore. Be sure to join us for a poetry prompt while we learn a little about structure through the poem, Sea Fever by John Masefield.
Shakespeare and Company: Playing the Fool Poetry Prompt
This week’s poetry prompt is for Fools. Put on your Jester hat and join us for some poetic and witty commentary in the style of the Shakespearean Fool.
Shakespeare & Company: Write Me a Melody Poetry Prompt
Come write with us for a ballad poetry prompt or a sonnet poetry prompt, with Shakespeare as our guide.
Shakespeare & Company: This One Doesn’t Belong Photo & Poetry Prompt
Strangeness arrests. It can cause inquiry, new vision, fear, a will to act (or not act). Let’s harness the power of strangeness in this week’s prompt.
Shakespeare & Company: Dream a Little Dream Prompt
Dream a little dream with us, in this Shakespeare poetry prompt. You can deny what the poem means, if anything at all. That’s the beauty of a dream.
Shakespeare & Company: Playlist and Prompt
From Natalie Merchant to Duke Ellington, we’ve got a Shakespeare playlist that brings to life the famous playwright and poet, plus a few unexpected tunes.
Common Core Picture Poems: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”
Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. Today we consider Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.”
Heroes and Villains Poetry Prompt: Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Flies has strong villains and heroes, including the landscape itself. Use it as a source for your next poem?
Photo Play 2: Heroes and Villains
We’re dancing between light & shadow, heroes & villains. Explore the Photo Play contributions from our community. Come write a poem & share it with us.