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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

Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 2

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

The next six poems edited from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter Poetry jam, with the prompts from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”

Filed Under: article, poetry, Twitter poetry

Poetry Classroom: April Poem

By Daniel Bowman 13 Comments

poetry fog by gmeaders_ch

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.

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

Honk if You Were a Teenage Swan (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 4 Comments

Write a coming-of-age poem inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” in this week’s poetry prompt from Seth Haines.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Fairytales, poetry

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 3 Comments

top ten poetry

Tattoos as art, trading guns for art, pigs writing poetry, and taking poetry into outer space. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

WordCandy Sweet Bloggers Roundup: Truffles

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

wordcandy truffles

Our WordCandy Sweet Bloggers have lifted another collection of chocolate truffles from the beautiful quote box.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Quotes, WordCandy

Poetry at Work: The Airport Security Check-In

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

A random selection of people in an airport security line becomes the occasion for two strangers to create a poem of chance, understanding, and meaning.

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

Poetry Classroom: The Wait

By Daniel Bowman 11 Comments

Poetry Hair

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with poet Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing plum-haired November.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom

Swans, Swallows, and the Phoenix (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 8 Comments

Seth Haines kicks off the month of May with a new poetic playlist on our Swans, Swallow, Phoenix theme, and a brand new poetry prompt to boot.

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

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

top ten poetry picks

Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It’s poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

You Put Poetry on the Map!

By L.L. Barkat 16 Comments

Poetry on the Map Truett

From the Arabian peninsula to Seattle, we put poetry on the map this National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poems, poetry, visual poetry

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