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Poet-a-Day: Meet Susan Rothbard

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

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When you think you’re grounded in reality, a form like the sonnet might lead you to the imaginary. It did for Susan Rothbard in her apple poem!

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets

Poets and Poems: James Tweedie and “Mostly Sonnets”

By Glynn Young Leave a Comment

“Mostly Sonnets” by James Tweedie shows how the poetic form can also be used for important subjects other than love.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets

Poet-a-Day: Meet Tom C. Hunley

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

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How can a mashup lead to a sonnet like Tom C. Hunley’s? See the cool exercise that can make it happen.

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets

Poet-a-Day: Meet Ron Wallace

By Tania Runyan 2 Comments

Gold Wheat Provence France-Mrs. Goldwasser teacher poem

When your ode is also a sonnet. Ron Wallace shows how a golden form poem decided to play with expectations (and intentions).

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, Ode Poems, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets

Poet-a-Day: Meet Isaac Willis

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Berlin facade architecture-Sonnet for an Architect Poem

When you begin a poem, do you ever feel like a particular form is calling? Isaac Willis shares why he chose the sonnet for this architect love poem…

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets

Poets and Poems: Brad Lussier and “How Does He Love Me?”

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

The 47 sonnets of “How Does He Love Me?” by Brad Lussier remind us that love is transcendent, eternal and unchanging.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets

Poet-a-Day: Meet David Wright

By Tania Runyan 3 Comments

Louise McKay Los Angeles cellist-Music Poem by David Wright

How can you discover your poetic habits and create new ones that change your poetic music? Poet David Wright’s cello-based sonnet shows the way.

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, Sonnets

An Epic Told in 500 Sonnets: “The Gift of Life” by Amanda Hall

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

In “The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse,” poet Amanda Hall employs some 500 sonnets to tell a story of love amid contemporary life and culture.

Filed Under: article, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets

Poet Laura: Poultry Poetry—Feeding Grapes and Reading Sonnets to Chickens

By Laura Boggess 2 Comments

Water Droplets on grapes

This month, our intrepid Poet Laura visits chickens on a chilly day, bearing delicious grapes and heartfelt sonnets.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, Poet Laura, Shakespeare, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Fiction Prompt: Chapter 3, Snowflake Lights, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Pumpkin-Spiced Whoopee Pies

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Our fall into fiction series continues with snowflake lights, Shakespeare sonnets, and whoopee pies. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 3.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets, writer's group resources

Poetry Prompt: Experience a Sonnet

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen in taking a look at the mysterious and lovely world of the sonnet, and experience one for yourself using a variety of easy tools.

Filed Under: article, Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets, writer's group resources

World War I: Mary Borden – Nurse, Novelist, Poet

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poppies Mary Borden World War I

American Mary Borden married a missionary, financed a hospital in World War I France, had an affair, published novels — and wrote poetry.

Filed Under: article, Blog, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets, war poems

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

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Odds are Shakespeare wrote far more than 154 sonnets. But of the 154 that have survived, here are 10 of the very best Shakespeare sonnets!

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, Shakespeare, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 104 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 104

The Shakespeare Files is a collection of annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. Today, it’s Shakespeare’s Sonnet 104.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Write Your Own Shakespearean Sonnets: Juliet’s Aubade

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

write Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare sonnet

Sonnet about Romeo and Juliet? This is one you simply won’t want to miss. Then maybe try your hand at one of your own.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Common Core Picture Poems: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

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Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. This week we consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.

Filed Under: Blog, Common Core Poems, Picture Poems, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Poetry Date: Sisters Read Tolkien and One Wears Dagger

By L.L. Barkat 21 Comments

Tolkien map color Poetry Dare Tolkien poems

Plan a poetry date with a friend, sibling, co-worker, lover. Choose a poet, a venue, a snack or a drink, and read to each other. Today’s date: Tolkien!

Filed Under: Blog, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Date, Sonnets, Tolkien

Poetry Classroom: Bach Learns to Love the Masses

By David Clark Wright 5 Comments

floral Fugue Poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today, dip into a poetic fugue.

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

The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 14 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

How to Write a Sonnet Infographic: Quatrain Wreck

By Will Willingham 35 Comments

quatrain wreck how to write a sonnet infographic

Want to write a sonnet? Don’t want to write a sonnet, but you have to? Either way, our Sonnet Infographic will help you laugh and write your way through.

Filed Under: Blog, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, Infographics, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Sonnets

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