Welcome to our poetry classroom with Marjorie Maddox Hafer. Today we’re discussing the relief in a storm.
“Some Kiss We Want”, by Rumi, Video by Daniel Austin Sperry
Rumi: Some Kiss We Want. Spoken word poetry and cello.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic 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.
Poetry Review: The Submerged Depths of Lapse Americana
A review of Lapse Americana: Poems by Benjamin Myers, a poetry volume focused on memory, childhood and understanding.
Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January
Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.
Poetry Comics: The Poetry Industry
Did you know? The Poetry Industry has its own park.
The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)
Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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.
Take Your Poet to Work Day
Take Your Poet to Work Day. Why should kids have all the fun? Your poet wants to go to work with you too.
Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 3
Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”
Poetry Classroom: Directions
Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.
The Opalescent Swallow (A Poetry Prompt)
Join Seth Haines for a new poetry prompt on the swallow, from this month’s Swan, Swallow, the Phoenix theme.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.
3 Star Trek Poems: Into Darkness
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.
Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 2
The next six poems edited from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter Poetry jam, with the prompts from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”
Poetry Classroom: April Poem
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.
Honk if You Were a Teenage Swan (A Poetry Prompt)
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.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
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.
WordCandy Sweet Bloggers Roundup: Truffles
Our WordCandy Sweet Bloggers have lifted another collection of chocolate truffles from the beautiful quote box.
Poetry at Work: The Airport Security Check-In
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.