She requires a choice with every chapter. Will I sit with the pelicans and snag the easy fish, or let the current take me clear to the ocean?
Eric Roberts on How to Make Book Love
Eric Roberts, on how to make book love and The Whipping Club.
A Vintage Journey I Didn’t Expect
With all the upheaval in the publishing industry because of ebooks, at least one positive development has resulted: we have the opportunity to read things we might not have otherwise. A case in point: my Kindle version of Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy. Kindle price: free, part of the volunteer project to […]
May Play: Stretching
Sometimes we start poetry with a history of strains and tight muscles. For many of us, this month’s May Play felt like therapy, a chance to purge ourselves of some lactic acid and develop more elasticity.
Image-ine: The Meeting
I want her in front of my lens I realise as we drive away. She is poetry in a body.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider
The Artist’s Way: Safety
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by.
The Poet Who Wasn’t
Carlos Fuentes died last week, a writer with a poet’s heart who didn’t write poetry.
May Play: Conversations
Leah wasn’t quite ready to play. Sharing her poetry still felt like a risk.
A few months ago she discovered Every Day Poems and began clicking around. She spent $2.99 on our poetry daily subscription. She found intriguing writing prompts and colorful features. Most importantly, she encountered conversations.
By Any Other Name
My interest in roses took a turn three years ago, however, when Sharon and I lost our home to a wildfire on the outskirts of Santa Barbara and temporarily rented a place in town near the old mission.
Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.
A Simple Rhyme ‘Changed My Life’: Interview with Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry
Interview with Virginia poet laureate Kelly Cherry.
“You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake”
The title suggests a story or a riddle, implying that something is going to happen or unfold, or a challenge or competition is going to begin. I’ve never read a book of poetry quite like ‘You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake’
May Play: Spontaneity
The elementary school and playground which captivated my attention as a child was torn down many years ago. A bench surrounded by flowers is all that remains.
Image-ine: Child Poet
She grew up to be a poet…
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.
The Peace of Wild Things
Could the subtlety of poetry be enough to startle others into hearing?
My “Poem-ography”
Who – what poems – would comprise your “poem-ography?”
May Play: Sharing
Win some chocolate with your Every Day Poems story.
Image-ine: Curves
This feverish afternoon opened my heart to the magnificence of the human form: mostly the beauty of the female curve, the contours of her mountainous landscape. Recently, poetry re-awakened this for me, brought it into my present.