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Top Ten Poems from Every Day Poems

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Every weekday morning, we send a carefully-chosen poem, along with beautiful artwork, out to eagerly awaiting inboxes around the world. Here are our top recent Every Day Poems.

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Courage Poems, Every Day Poems, Family Poems, Father Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry

Blokes Who Write Bad Poetry: Black Bart

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 17 Comments

black bart poetry

With twenty-seven robberies and two poems to his credit, Black Bart was a legend. Kimberlee Conway Ireton answers with a poem to Black Bart.

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

Operation Poetry Dare: For the Love

By Nancy Franson 38 Comments

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Can poetry be taught or learned? Or is it a relationship one enters into? Nancy Franson continues her experimental reading in the Poetry Dare. Settle down now. Drink some cranberry juice.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources

Poet in New York: Federico García Lorca

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

A new edition of Federico García Lorca’s “Poet in New York” adds depth and understanding to what we know about the poet.

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

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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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.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Memoir Notebook: The Secret Recipe

By Kathryn Neel 7 Comments

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In our Memoir Notebook feature, Kathryn Neel shares family memories of Uncle Sonny and the right way to make banana pudding.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Serious Fun: How We Spent Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

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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.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Nelson Mandela: Begun, Not Done

By Claire Haidar 12 Comments

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Nelson Mandela: what he started is not finished. I am thinking hard.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Operation Poetry Dare: I Can’t Dance to It

By Nancy Franson 52 Comments

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Nancy Franson continues her experimental poetry dare, trying to work out the rhythm of a new dance partner.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources

Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Blue Suede Shoes

By T.S. Poetry 10 Comments

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What kinda shoes rock you? Put ’em in a poem, and rock us too.

Filed Under: Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Rock and Roll, Rock Song Poems, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Operation: Poetry Dare

By Nancy Franson 97 Comments

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Follow the journey of Nancy Franson, the mildly poetry-avoidant subject of a poem-a-day experiment.

Filed Under: poems every day, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry humor

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

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Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 3 Comments

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!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

The Poetree: An Afternoon Well-Spent

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 14 Comments

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How creating a “poetree” can do what poetry at its best does: calls attention to the present, the beauty and joy and wonder and gut-wrenching glory of it.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry teaching resources

The Mirror, The Storyteller (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 11 Comments

In this week’s poetry prompt, we explore the stories reflected in the mirror. What story does your mirror tell?

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, poetry, writing prompts

Cape Cod Stories: Placing with Thoreau

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

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If you are a writer, you might want to go where other writers have gone before. Follow Thoreau and Plath to Cape Cod?

Filed Under: Blog, Cape Cod Literary, writer's group resources

Artist Date: Getting the Mail

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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Ready for an Artist Date? Lace up your red sneakers and let’s go walk out to pick up the mail.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog, Creativity

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Electronic Work

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Like all work, the work of electronic communications contains an inherent poetry, perhaps several inherent “poetries.”

Filed Under: article, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

Mirror, Mirage (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 24 Comments

Can you tell the difference between mirror and mirage? Do you follow false reflections or true? This week, we’re exploring the poetry in mirages.

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, Poems, writing prompts

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

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