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.
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Blokes Who Write Bad Poetry: Black Bart
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.
Operation Poetry Dare: For the Love
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.
Poet in New York: Federico García Lorca
A new edition of Federico García Lorca’s “Poet in New York” adds depth and understanding to what we know about the poet.
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.
Memoir Notebook: The Secret Recipe
In our Memoir Notebook feature, Kathryn Neel shares family memories of Uncle Sonny and the right way to make banana pudding.
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.
Nelson Mandela: Begun, Not Done
Nelson Mandela: what he started is not finished. I am thinking hard.
Operation Poetry Dare: I Can’t Dance to It
Nancy Franson continues her experimental poetry dare, trying to work out the rhythm of a new dance partner.
Rock ‘n Roll Poetry Prompt: Blue Suede Shoes
What kinda shoes rock you? Put ’em in a poem, and rock us too.
Operation: Poetry Dare
Follow the journey of Nancy Franson, the mildly poetry-avoidant subject of a poem-a-day experiment.
Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson
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.
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!
The Poetree: An Afternoon Well-Spent
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.
The Mirror, The Storyteller (A Poetry Prompt)
In this week’s poetry prompt, we explore the stories reflected in the mirror. What story does your mirror tell?
Cape Cod Stories: Placing with Thoreau
If you are a writer, you might want to go where other writers have gone before. Follow Thoreau and Plath to Cape Cod?
Artist Date: Getting the Mail
Ready for an Artist Date? Lace up your red sneakers and let’s go walk out to pick up the mail.
Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Electronic Work
Like all work, the work of electronic communications contains an inherent poetry, perhaps several inherent “poetries.”
Mirror, Mirage (A Poetry Prompt)
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.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!