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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

Take Your Poet to Work: Pablo Neruda

By Will Willingham 43 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Pablo Neruda cover

Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring poet Pablo Neruda.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

top ten poetry picks

Apps that analyze your writing voice, your poetry, your reading preferences. It’s all in the math and science of This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Wheat Berries and Writing

By Megan Willome 23 Comments

writing and wheat berries

Megan Willome talks about writing fiction and about wheat berries, how after you grind them to smithereens, you can make the most amazing whole wheat bread.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Writing Tips

Journey into Poetry: Marjorie Maddox

By Marjorie Maddox 13 Comments

journey into poetry marjorie maddox

Marjorie Maddox was always a bookworm—as a child reading in the branches of trees, upside down on a couch, and, of course, in bed with a flashlight. Follow her Journey into Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, journey into poetry, poetry

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Interview

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

I was part of an interview team, talking individually with four candidates for a communication research job. Human Resources had provided us with a set of “behavioral interview” questions, which meant we would be asking things like “What’s the biggest failure you’ve ever experienced?” and “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” We followed […]

Filed Under: article, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work 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

“Some Kiss We Want”, by Rumi, Video by Daniel Austin Sperry

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

Some Kiss We Want Poem Shareable Graphic

Rumi: Some Kiss We Want. Spoken word poetry and cello.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Rumi Poems, Spoken Word Poems, Videos

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

top ten poetry picks

The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry Review: The Submerged Depths of Lapse Americana

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Lapse Americana poetry

A review of Lapse Americana: Poems by Benjamin Myers, a poetry volume focused on memory, childhood and understanding.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, article, Books, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Train poems

Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January

By Daniel Bowman 16 Comments

Poetry Ashes

Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.

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

Poetry Comics: The Poetry Industry

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Poetry Industrial Park Comic by Lyla Willingham Lindquist

Did you know? The Poetry Industry has its own park.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry humor

The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

shakespeare files

Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files, Sonnets

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Celebrities set in Renaissance masterpieces, poetry as therapy, poetic computation, trading words for images. It’s a new week of our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Read, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day. Why should kids have all the fun? Your poet wants to go to work with you too.

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

Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 3

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Twitter poetry

Poetry Classroom: Directions

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Poetry Compass by Walt Stoneburner

Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.

Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

The Opalescent Swallow (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 1 Comment

opalescent swallow poetry

Join Seth Haines for a new poetry prompt on the swallow, from this month’s Swan, Swallow, the Phoenix theme.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, poetry, Swans Swallows Phoenix, writing prompts

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poetry Feather bowl

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

3 Star Trek Poems: Into Darkness

By Sara Barkat and Sonia Joie 3 Comments

Star Trek poems

In honor of the 2013 Trekkies high holy day (the debut of the new movie Into Darkness, opens May 16th), we’re featuring Star Trek poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Star Trek Poems, Student Writing, Villanelles, writing prompts

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