Kimberlee Conway Ireton reads Llamas in Pajamas — and 10 great children’s poetry books — with her kids. In fleecy pajamas.
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Poetry at Work: PowerPoint as Poetry
Most PowerPoint presentations try to eliminate all white space with words. Presenters should approach PowerPoint like poetry, using as few words as possible.
Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-Good Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines invites you to share your purple-themed poetry, your indigo verses, your plum-good musings with a new poetry prompt and themed playlist. Who knows, maybe we’ll feature your work in an upcoming piece at Tweetspeak!
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Painting with tea, a tribute to Pride and Prejudice, the most “bank-clerky of all bank clerks. Seth Haines has the best in poetry in this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Poetry at Work: The Best Job You Ever Had
It was only when I started writing poems that I began to understand that good and bad jobs, and best and worst jobs, often walk hand in hand.
5 Amusing Pride and Prejudice Quotes: Wet Shirt Included
Five fun quotes from Pride and Prejudice promised to nurse one sick writer back to health. Or maybe it was the dose of Colin Firth. One can never be sure.
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Edith Wharton
The Mount is celebrating Edith Wharton’s 151st birthday today. Wharton was born in chilly January, on the 24th, in 1862, in New York City.
Dublin Doors: Meet Jim Larkin and Ian Fox
I nearly trip and fall into his house as soon as the door opens. The paving is uneven and I don’t factor this in as I ring the doorbell upon arrival. He is rather surprised by this strange woman looking at him and seemingly wanting to come into his house without even so much as […]
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
An inaugural poetry primer, Bill Murray reading Dickinson poems to construction workers, and free books for the taking in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Inspired: 8 ways to write poems you can love
A simple ebook from T.S. Poetry Press might be all you need to get yourself writing a little poetry. If all else fails, cheesecake.
Give and Take: The Paradoxical Function of Art
It has been my peculiar experience as a poet to explain to people what they are seeing, albeit through what can feel like an added layer of obscurity. L.L. Barkat on the explanation of art, more or less.
How Do You Take It? (A Coffee Poetry Prompt)
Cream is only good when it’s fronted by Eric Clapton, and the highest form of coffee sacrilege is its dilution with dairy. That’s one man’s opinion. What about you? How you take it? Seth Haines has another poetry prompt.
Poetry Classroom: Shade Half Drawn
In the Poetry Classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
Read The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and enjoy delightful read-alouds and animations that adults and children will both love!
10 Great Poems About Work
10 great poems about work, new and old. Boss poems, work-life poems, work poems about various industries. Thoughtful to humorous!
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama’s new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Tea Conversion: My “Come to Rooibos” Moment
How a hardcore coffee drinker turns to tea is something science can’t explain. A “come to rooibos” moment.
Poetry Classroom: Public Safety Film
In the poetry classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art There is a split of authority in my house. I tend to identify with the poetry of William Carlos Williams—so much depends upon that red wheelbarrow. I imagine the objects of Williams’ poetry, perhaps attaching a bit of unwarranted sentimentality or nostalgia […]
Our Favorites from the 2012 Poetry Themes
Every month, we arrange the way we play poetry around a particular theme. You’ll see it in the artful content from our contributing writers, hear it in our inspiring thematic Spotify playlists, put your hands on it in the Monday morning poetry prompts, or experience it in the daily offerings from Every Day Poems. Here are our favorites from 2012.