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How to Become a Better Writer: Blue Artist Date
Robert McCready knows how to become a better writer when he heads out on an Artist Date and finds the blues.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Shakespeare in its original English. Or Shakespeare rewritten. Infographics, code poetry, bad real estate photos and artful cookies. Find all this and more in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
The Tattoo’s Dark Side: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
We wrap up our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos considering the tattoo’s dark side with Kafka and Tony Hoagland.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Poetry as diplomacy, waiting for tattoos, unsplitting infinitives and the poetry of labor. all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Emily Dickinson’s pickup lines, op-ed poetry, why you should draw with your 4-year-old. It’s a brand new week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Operation Poetry Dare: Poetry Brain
Can everyone write poetry? Or only those with a poetry brain? Looks like Nancy Franson is trying to talk herself out of writing a poem as her Poetry Dare continues.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Street photography, Jane Austen summer camp, what poetry, science and Twinkies have in common. It’s this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks: The Twinkie Edition.
You Should Write a Book
Should you write a book? It’s a question many writers toy with. Charity Singleton Craig shares some perspective. And a little Italian.
Serious Fun: How We Spent Take Your Poet to Work Day
From Neruda driving the morning commute to T.S. Eliot settling down for a good night’s sleep, we celebrated Take Your Poet to Work Day around the world. Enjoy a recap of our favorite images and tweets.
Poetry Review: Mark Jarman’s “Bone Fires”
A review of “Bone Fires: News and Selected Poems, ” by Mark Jarman, notes his development of the themes of family, faith, and doubt.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Book doodles, flower-power drone poetry bombs, Papa on Facebook, refrigerator poetry, and Afghani poetry–it’s all here in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!
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.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.
Top 10 Poetry Sites to Follow for National Poetry Month
Who to follow for National Poetry Month (and maybe all year long). The best in poetry sites.
Memoir Notebook: Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference
Memoir Notebook is a new monthly (sometimes more) column. Today, to the Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Or maybe to the blind man on the street.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The hair-splitting debate over split infinitives, 10x vs 10% better, Monopoly iron says farewell. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
How to Host a Successful Book Launch
Karen Swallow Prior, recently published author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, shares her tips for hosting a successful book launch.
This Year’s Top 10 Top 10 Poetic Picks
The editors have culled our very favorite links from our weekly Top 10 Poetic Picks from 2012.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Random acts of poetry, communing with nature is not an excuse to get out of the office, going to class with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks with Seth Haines.