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Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish

By Sandra Heska King 22 Comments

Darwish Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

In her first Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King wonders if Darwish is writing about a person or place, a man or woman, himself or someone else.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetic Voices: Molly Fisk and Miriam Bird Greenberg

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Imagery is a critical aspect of poetry, and using it well, as Molly Fisk and Miriam Bird Greenberg do, significantly enhances the strength of the writing.

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

Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poetic Tweets birds on rail

Looking for poetry on Twitter? Look no further than our Top 10 Poetic Tweets, featuring some of our favorite Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Dip Into Poetry

We began a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to take a dip into poetry with us. Discover the power of a single line.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, poetry

Poetic Voices: Paula Marie Coomer and Donna Vorreyer

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Poets Donna Vorreyer and Paula Marie Coomer write about their lives, showing us that poetry is work and it is like windows into the soul.

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

Top 10 Best Cheese Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Cheese Poems

Chesterton started a rumor about a mysterious silence created by poets about cheese. Our list of Top 10 Cheese Poems says Chesterton was full of havarti.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry

Mahmoud Darwish and the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poetry Dare Butterfly's Burden Mahmoud Darwish Photo Susan Etole

We’ve challenged Sandra Heska King to a brand new adventure, the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare with the dream-like poetry of Mahmoud Darwish at the center. Come along and follow your dream? We dare you.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Sheep from the Back Fun Photo Poetic Picks

Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetic Voices: Megan Fernandes and Sandra Marchetti

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Two poets – Megan Fernandes and Sandra Marchetti – write words that linger in the memory long after the books are closed.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Walt Whitman cover

We round out the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poet collection with today’s release of America’s poet, Walt Whitman.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Walt Whitman

Oh, Baby: Top 10 Best Baby Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Baby Poems

Babies could use a little more nuance. They definitely could use more poems. Enjoy this collection of 10 great baby poems.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, Blog, Christina Rossetti, Poems, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: Wisława Szymborska

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Wisława Szymborska cover

Meet Polish poet Wisława Szymborska as we continue our preparations for celebrating Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 15.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Wislawa Szymborska

Poetic Voices: Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

In recent collections Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs deal with the sense of place – contemporary Israel and the places of childhood and imagination.

Filed Under: book reviews, Childhood Poems, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Anna Akhmatova

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Anna Akhmatova Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 15. This week, we add Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova to our collection.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Twitter Party: Slivers of Plum at Midnight

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry’s most recent Twitter party resulted in ten poems about lemonade, lightning, bread, gears, a locomotive, and an equation — of bees.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, love poems, Moon poems, Night Poems, Plum Poems, Poems, poetry, Short Poems, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Twitter Poems Top 10 Poetic Tweets

Looking for poetry on Twitter? Look no further than our latest Top Ten Poetic Tweets, featuring some of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: Robert Frost

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Robert Frost

We continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration. This week we welcome Robert Frost to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: poetry, Robert Frost, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Poetic Voices: Jehanne Dubrow and Sally Kindred

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Jehanne Dubrow uses form and substance for the poems of “The Arranged Marriage, ” while Sally Rosen Kindred uses the metaphor of flowers in Book of Asters.

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

Take Your Poet to Work: Maya Angelou

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

As we continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration, this week we welcome Maya Angelou to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Maya Angelou, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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