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Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish

By Sandra Heska King 22 Comments

Darwish Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

In her first Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King wonders if Darwish is writing about a person or place, a man or woman, himself or someone else.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetic Voices: Molly Fisk and Miriam Bird Greenberg

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Imagery is a critical aspect of poetry, and using it well, as Molly Fisk and Miriam Bird Greenberg do, significantly enhances the strength of the writing.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Loki Goodness Campaign 8: Inventions and Dreams

By Anonymous 1 Comment

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In this edition of the Loki Goodness Campaign, we see the soft side of Loki (and a certain inventiveness that may or may not be laudable).

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Loki Goodness Campaign

Adjustments: The Series

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

The Adjuster Open Road

Is it true that claim adjusters tell the best stories? Find out for yourself with our subscriber-only fiction series, Adjustments.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

Regional Tour: A Glimpse of Yosemite

By Dolly Lee 18 Comments

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Join Dolly Lee on a hike through Yosemite National Park in this California Regional Tour.

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Regional Tour: North House Folk School, Grand Marais, Minnesota

By Michelle DeRusha 10 Comments

North House Folk School wood shavings

Join Michelle DeRusha in a regional tour to North House Folk School in Grand Marais, Minnesota, and learn birch bark weaving and bread baking. Bet you can smell the wood shavings.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Minnesota Tour, Regional Tour

Poetic Voices: Paula Marie Coomer and Donna Vorreyer

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Poets Donna Vorreyer and Paula Marie Coomer write about their lives, showing us that poetry is work and it is like windows into the soul.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Emily Dickinson and The Sea: A Poem of Transcendence

By Rick Maxson 8 Comments

Emily Dickinson and the Sea Poem of Transcendence

Is Emily Dickinson’s ‘I Started Early – Took My Dog’ really just about the sea? Or is it something more? This poem analysis argues for transcendence.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Literary Analysis, Poem Analysis

The Golden Dress: A Fairy Tale

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Exquisite painted photography, digital art, and collage brings to life the story of a seamstress who gives her only daughter a golden dress that grants the girl’s every wish throughout the years. But when the dress begins to age, the girl struggles to embrace the change—and risks losing her mother’s heart and her own special place in the world.

Top 10 Best Cheese Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Cheese Poems

Chesterton started a rumor about a mysterious silence created by poets about cheese. Our list of Top 10 Cheese Poems says Chesterton was full of havarti.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry

Video: Emily Dickinson’s I Started Early – Took My Dog

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

Video Emily Dickinson I started early took my dog shoes in water

We have a thing for Emily Dickinson. Sort of. This video of Emily’s I Started Early – Took My Dog can only make it…wetter. Um, better.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Sheep from the Back Fun Photo Poetic Picks

Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Memoir Notebook: Sweet Talk

By Darrelyn Saloom 38 Comments

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In this Memoir Notebook, Darrelyn Saloom recalls watching her stepfather raise his right arm. This time, his open hand curled into a fist.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Riding a Bicycle on an Unlikely Pilgrimage with Harold Fry

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Riding a Bicycle with Harold Fry

Would it have mattered if Harold Fry sped up his walking journey, to keep Queenie Hennessy alive? A take on The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by bicycle.

Filed Under: Blog, Books

Memoir Notebook: Too Close for Comfort

By Darrelyn Saloom 25 Comments

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Darrelyn Saloom reveals childhood fears, both macro–the Cold War–and micro–her stepfather’s anger–in this entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Poets and Poems: Susan Lewis

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Poet Susan Lewis asks how we can fully understand each other, and she does it within the frameworks of both prose poetry and the more familiar verse form.

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Blog, poetry reviews, Poets

Win $100 with Your Poet at a Coffee Shop GIF!

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

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Can you make a GIF? Then you could win $100 for going to your favorite coffee shop with your poet, and making a GIF by Tuesday, July 14, 2015.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Creativity Inside the Box: The Freedom of Constraint

By Charity Singleton Craig 12 Comments

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Would imposing constraints help or hinder your creativity? Charity Singleton Craig explores both sides of working inside and thinking outside the box.

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Oh, Baby: Top 10 Best Baby Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Top 10 Baby Poems

Babies could use a little more nuance. They definitely could use more poems. Enjoy this collection of 10 great baby poems.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, Blog, Christina Rossetti, Poems, poetry

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