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Poetry Prompt: Song Title Poetry
Try writing Song Title Poetry! All you need is a pad of sticky notes, a playlist of favorite songs, and your imagination.
Reading Generously: ‘Mildred’s Garden’—A Begin Again Story
Begin Again with a love story—”Mildred’s Garden” by Laura Boggess. Even if you don’t like romance, it’s easy to read this book generously.
The Surprise Leap: Notes on the Writing Life
As in the rest of life, the writing life is about more than beginning. Often times, what defines the work (and who we are) happens in the middles.
Reading the 1913 Edition of ‘Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare’
To read “Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare” is to rediscover the great playwright and step into a time when families read Shakespeare.
Poetry Prompt: Small Things—Quivering Carrot Leaves and Trampled Daisies
The big things in our lives can often be best written by focusing on small things. Join us for a poetry prompt about how to say it plainly.
Home is Where the School Is—A Pandemic’s Eye View of Homeschooling Vs Virtual Learning
An exploration of homeschooling vs virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes interviews with 15 parents, students, and educators!
National Poetry Month: How to Write a Form Poem!
Looking for a wonderful book to inspire you this National Poetry Month? Try out ‘How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms.’
How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms
An inspiring poetry handbook Are you looking for a poetry handbook—one that will spark your imagination and guide you in the pleasures of writing poetry with heart and soul? Explore this inspiring “workshop in a book.” No matter your level, you can make poems that express more deeply and impact more richly. Poems to keep. […]
Poetry Prompt: The Villanelle
Feeling all the feelings these days? Consider containing them (and letting them breathe) in a villanelle.
“Winds and Leaves [from England]” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Winds and Leaves from England Wet winds that flap the sodden leaves! Wet leaves that drop and fall! Unhappy, leafless trees the wind bereaves! Poor trees and small! All of a color, solemn in your green; All of a color, sombre in your brown; All of a color, […]
“‘An Unusual Rain'” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems An Unusual Rain Again! Another day of rain! It has rained for years. It never clears. The clouds come down so low They drag and drip Across each hill-top’s tip. In progress slow They blow in from the sea Eternally; Hang heavily and black, And then roll back; […]
“Tree Feelings” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Tree Feelings I wonder if they like it—being trees? I suppose they do…. It must feel good to have the ground so flat, And feel yourself stand right straight up like that— So stiff in the middle—and then branch at ease, Big boughs that arch, small ones that […]
The Yellow Wallpaper Characters
full list of every character in The Yellow Wallpaper & who they are — narrator, John, Jennie, Jane, Mary, baby, brother, mother, cousins & Weir Mitchell! go here if you just want a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper and here for the full text of The Yellow Wallpaper Unnamed Protagonist & Narrator: Our unnamed protagonist […]
List of The Yellow Wallpaper Articles
This is a list of critical essays and articles for The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that you can read online. The Yellow Wallpaper Characters, or The Yellow Wallpaper Summary. Or, maybe you’d like to read about How to Do Literary Analysis: An Experimental Reflection Based On The Yellow Wall-Paper. “Sara’s stunning, heartbreaking, and […]
Reading Generously: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley
How do you keep reading generously when you don’t like a story? Megan Willome says writing a poem may help.
“Our Loneliness” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Our Loneliness There is no deeper grief than loneliness. Our sharpest anguish at the death of friends Is loneliness. Our agony of heart When love has gone from us is loneliness. The crying of a little child at night In the big dark is crowding loneliness. Slow death […]
“Seeking” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Seeking I went to look for Love among the roses, the roses, The pretty wingèd boy with the arrow and the bow; In the fair and fragrant places, ’Mid the Muses and the Graces, At the feet of Aphrodite, with the roses all aglow. Then I sought among […]
A New Year’s Reminder by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Photo by Special Collections Toronto Public Library on flickr. Public domain. A New Year’s Reminder Better have a tender conscience for the record of your house, And your own share in the work which they have done, Though your private conscience aches With your personal mistakes, And you […]
“A Type” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems A Type I am too little, said the Wretch, For any one to see. Among the million men who do This thing that I am doing too, Why should they notice me? My sin is common as to breathe; It rests on every back. And surely I am […]