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Poetry Prompt: Just the Facts

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Just the facts, Ma’am becomes the beginning of poetry, when you take those facts and begin to stack them up. Try this Just the Facts prompt!

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Children’s Book Club: ‘The Beatryce Prophecy’ by Kate DiCamillo

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

baby feet on bunny blanket

In Kate DiCamillo’s “The Beatryce Prophecy,” our hero changes her story (with the help of a goat. Join us for Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Poet Laura: Dark Humor & Smarts in the Same Poem

By Karen Paul Holmes 3 Comments

log cabin on creek

In this month’s columns from Karen Paul Holmes, our Poet Laura invites us to write a dark humor poem using a sample Rupert Fike poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Food Poems, Funny Poems, Poet Laura, poetry prompt

Tell the Bees: A Little Chat Highlight

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

tell the bees card and balm

Peek in on an evening of poetry and beekeeping talk, with this highlight of the chat during our “Tell the Bees” event with Sara Eddy.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, nature, Poets

Poetry Prompt: Purple Moths + Dragons

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

white daffodils Switzerland

Join author Callie Feyen as she considers purple moths and dragons and the asymmetry of the world and herself.

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Perspective: Letters of Three

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

three pink flowers

Parenting is hard—sure—but writing believable parents is hard too. Megan Willome writes letters to three sets of fictional parents.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Children's Stories, Fiction, Perspective, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poems to Listen By: Time Lines 1—Sonnet 18

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

dry bud in sunlight bokeh

Laurie Klein and her 96 year old mentor Pat Stien kick off a new Poems to Listen By series by reading Sonnets 18 and 73 in Time Lines.

Filed Under: Blog, pat stien, Patron Only, Podcasts, Poems to Listen By, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Time Lines

Poetry Prompt: One Word to Take You Home

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

New South Wales Sydney Ferry

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores using one word to describe a tough experience and uses it to create a story.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Summer Poems, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

“Imitation” by Edgar Allan Poe

a distressed man running his hands through his hair

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Imitation A dark unfathomed tide Of interminable pride— A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem; I say that dream was fraught With a wild and waking thought Of beings that have been, Which my spirit hath not seen, Had I let them pass me by, […]

“Evening Star” by Edgar Allan Poe

people gazing at a starry sky blue in tone

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Evening Star ‘Twas noontide of summer, And midtime of night, And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, through the light Of the brighter, cold moon. ‘Mid planets her slaves, Herself in the Heavens, Her beam on the waves. I gazed awhile On her cold smile; Too cold—too cold […]

“The Lake” by Edgar Allan Poe

moonlight shines on a lake while a cow takes a drink a sailboat is seen in the distance

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the less— So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around. But when […]

“Fairyland” by Edgar Allan Poe

multi-colored butterflies fly in the air with a fairy riding them

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Fairyland Dim vales—and shadowy floods— And cloudy-looking woods, Whose forms we can’t discover For the tears that drip all over Huge moons there wax and wane— Again—again—again— Every moment of the night— Forever changing places— And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces. […]

“Romance” by Edgar Allan Poe

drawing of a colorful parakeet his body is green with a red face and blue-lined tale

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Romance Romance, who loves to nod and sing, With drowsy head and folded wing, Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within some shadowy lake, To me a painted paroquet Hath been—a most familiar bird— Taught me my alphabet to say— To lisp my very earliest […]

Poet Laura: Not Your Great-Grandma’s Love Poem

By Karen Paul Holmes 2 Comments

rocky lakeshore

What makes a love poem really work? Karen Paul Holmes breaks it down in this month’s Poet Laura column, featuring a poem by Kory Wells.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Poet Laura, poetry prompt

“A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe

man sitting and dreaming with difference scenes pooping up

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems A Dream In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned […]

“Spirits of the Dead” by Edgar Allan Poe

painting showing souls reaching out from the depths of nothingness

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Spirits of the Dead Thy soul shall find itself alone ‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In […]

“Song” by Edgar Allan Poe

a blushing woman holding roses

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Song I saw thee on thy bridal day— When a burning blush came o’er thee, Though happiness around thee lay, The world all love before thee: And in thine eye a kindling light (Whatever it might be) Was all on Earth my aching sight Of Loveliness could see. […]

“To the River” by Edgar Allan Poe

painting of ophelia laying in the water with flowers around her

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems To the River Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow Of crystal, wandering water, Thou art an emblem of the glow Of beauty—the unhidden heart— The playful maziness of art In old Alberto’s daughter; But when within thy wave she looks— Which glistens then, and trembles— Why, then, […]

Poets and Poems: Sara Eddy — “Tell the Bees” and “Full Mouth”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Almond Blossom Sara Eddy

Poet Sara Eddy has published two chapbooks — “Tell the Bees” and “Full Mouth” — about bees, food, and life.

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

Poetry Prompt: The Five Whys

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Five Windmills

Join author Callie Feyen as she asks the 5 Whys to get to the root cause of a problem and, in the process, writes Because Poems.

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

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