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Hermit Crab Essay 002: How To Teach Poetry To Seventh Graders

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Teaching poetry to 7th graders begins with vulnerability. Join author Callie Feyen and she walks us through a scene in a middle school classroom.

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By Heart: ‘The Good Life’ + New Wallace Stevens Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

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It’s funny the things we are grateful for, in retrospect. Join us as we learn a poem of gratitude By Heart: “The Good Life” by Tracy K. Smith.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Gratitude

Hermit Crab Essay Series: 001 How to Do A Switch Leap

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Callie Feyen begins a new series: The Hermit Crab Essay. She begins with the how-to of a switch leap and reveals something more vulnerable.

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Poets and Poems: John Martin Finlay and “Dense Poems & Socratic Light”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

“Dense Poems & Socratic Light” by John Martin Finlay is the best collection of the poet’s published and unpublished work available.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 08—Zinfandel

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

The Dunes Golf Course trees on rolling green hills

Laurie Klein concludes her “Heart & Soil” Poems to Listen By podcast series with Jane Mead’s “Where the Zinfandel Pass Their Seasons in Mute Rows.”

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List of The Yellow Wallpaper Articles

The Yellow Wallpaper Flower

This is a list of critical essays and articles for The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that you can read online. The Yellow Wallpaper Characters, or The Yellow Wallpaper Summary. Or, maybe you’d like to read about How to Do Literary Analysis: An Experimental Reflection Based On The Yellow Wall-Paper. “Sara’s stunning, heartbreaking, and […]

“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper?” an essay by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Forerunner Original 1913 October Issue Published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    The following essay is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper. It was first published in The Forerunner in October 1913. Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper? Many and many a reader has asked that. When the story first came out, in the New England Magazine about 1891, a Boston […]

Shakespeare Sonnet XCIII (93): So shall I live, supposing thou art true

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XCIII (93) So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love’s face May still seem love to me, though alter’d new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in […]

30 Days to Richer Writing Workshop—4 part class (only 2 sections available)

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Would you like to stir your creative soul? Find your inspiration? Awaken your best writing voice? All while discovering the key principles to richer writing? You’ve come to a special place where all that is possible, in a format that allows you to take things at your own rate. 30 Days to Richer Writing is […]

How to Like Your Essays, More and More

By Charity Singleton Craig 2 Comments

Levels Tools for The Art of the Essay

If you want to like your essays, more and more, it helps to begin by liking others’ work—and seeing what *makes* it work. Get inspiration for how. Plus prompts! From author Charity Singleton Craig.

Filed Under: Essays, The Art of the Essay, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts, Writing Tips

To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Thresholds, Homecomings & States of Heart

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club; photo of trees in desert

In this week’s To Bless the Space Between Us, we consider John O’Donohue’s blessings for thresholds, homecomings and states of heart.

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Rethinking the Role of the Poet: Essays by Micah Mattix

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“The Soul Is a Stranger in This World” by Micah Mattix takes a refreshing look at familiar contemporary poets—and at the role of poetry itself.

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By Heart: “Snow-flakes” + New Edgar Lee Masters Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Join author Megan Willome as she learns Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘Snow-flakes’ By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nature Poems, poetry

Romeo & Juliet—the full play: includes essays and annotations by Callie Feyen of The Teacher Diaries

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CF-Teacher Diaries Companion Romeo and Juliet Play

“A love story, an epic tragedy, a cautionary tale about parents respecting their children, even, incredibly, more than a minor note of humor—Romeo and Juliet has it all,” says editor Sara Barkat. Now, in this special volume, you can encounter this enduring play in the company of four vibrant women who love stories and ideas. […]

How to Write a College Application Essay: Expert Advice to Help You Get Into the College of Your Dreams

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For over 14 years, Tania Runyan has guided thousands of students in understanding, exploring, and crafting the college application essay—with winning results. This guide explains what the college application essay is all about: why a student has to write it, the nature of this special writing project, when and how a student should start, and […]

Writing Your Letters Workshop—Starts Monday!

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

flower memories

Take one or take all three, in this “writing from life” fall workshop series with Laura Lynn Brown, where we’ll explore writing our objects, our rooms, and our letters to others or ourselves.

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How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups

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How to Start, Join, and Make the Most of a Writing Group

This quick guide includes the questions you want to ask before starting a writing group (or joining a pre-existing one), and it gives you direction for best practices and growth. It also gives you a very helpful way to approach the critique aspect of your meeting times—to minimize problems and maximize the great feedback that can be yours (and that you can give to others).

Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self & Other Care Challenge

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Earth to Poetry by L.L. Barkat

Carefully developed based on the successful “UCEful Model,” our latest book tackles a big need expressed by educators: climate teaching must somehow fit into their subject areas if it’s going to be taught. Enter “Earth to Poetry.”

By Heart: Emily Dickinson + New “Lake Isle of Innisfree” Challenge

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

started early took dog

Even after spending a month with Dickinson and her unnamed dog (there is an unnamed dog in Sendak’s story too), I still don’t know what the poem means. And I did not go looking for an interpretation of it. I simply enjoyed the poem, dashes and all, says Megan Willome.

Filed Under: Blog, By Heart, Emily Dickinson

A New Exhibition: Tolkien and the Making of Middle-earth

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Forest morning Tolkien

A new exhibition on J.R.R. Tolkien has opened at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the catalog book is a treasure in and of itself.

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