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

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Best in Poetry Top Ten Poetic Picks

Toni Morrison finally reads ‘Beloved.’ You might be too smart to write. Why productivity might be killing you. Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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

Mischief Cafe: Lincoln, Nebraska

By L.L. Barkat 20 Comments

Christmas Lights Blue Trees

How do we love, across gaps and miles, and different ways of holding our teacups? The Mischief Café asks serious questions amidst great laughter.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry at Home

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

twitter poems top 10 poetic tweets

Looking for poetry on Twitter? We’ve made it easy for you, with this roundup of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in the past few weeks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

An Evening with Billy Collins

By Glynn Young 25 Comments

Poet Billy Collins read from his new volume, “Aimless Love, ” in St. Louis County, Missouri on Nov. 1; more than 800 people came for an intimate evening.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Dog Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

The Office of Poetry Grievances

By Charity Singleton Craig 19 Comments

Office of Poetry Grievances

Do you have a grievance to file against poetry? Charity Singleton Craig is staffing the Office of Poetry Grievances today.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

twitter poems top ten poetic tweets

Looking for poetry on Twitter? We’ve made it easy for you, with this roundup of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen in the past few weeks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

twitter poems

Few things make us happier than reading excellent poems on Twitter. Here are 10 of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

September Beats: Jack Kerouac

By Glynn Young 16 Comments

Tweetspeak Poets and Poems Beat Poets Kerouac

Jack Kerouac gave the name to the Beat Generation of writers and poets. In the more than 50 years after his death, he’s become an American legend.

Filed Under: Beat Poets, Poems, poetry, Poets

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

twitter poems

Few things make us happier than reading excellent poems on Twitter. Here are 10 of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Top 10 Tips for a Summer Staycation

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

blackberries summer staycation

You deserve a vacation. And we say you should give yourself one. Only don’t leave home. Try these ten tips for a great summer staycation.

Filed Under: Creativity, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. Meet our final poet in this year’s collection, Sylvia Plath.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Sylvia Plath, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Villanelles

Take Your Poet to Work: Christina Rossetti

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Christina Rossetti Take Your Poet to Work

Victorian poet Christina Rossetti is dressed and ready to go to work with you on Take Your Poet to Work Day.

Filed Under: Christina Rossetti, love poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work W.B. Yeats

Have you chosen your favorite poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day? W. B. Yeats joins our growing collection of ready-for-work poets today.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, Poems, Poets, Take Your Poet to Work Day, W. B. Yeats

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

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

the best in poetry

The literary novel might be dead, how to get Stephen King’s royalties, wrestling Ulysses and haiku-izing your status update. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Take Your Poet to Work: John Keats

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work John Keats

Romantic poet John Keats trained as an apothecary. He’d be a great help in the lab this afternoon. He’s the latest in our Take Your Poet to Work collection.

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

Twitter Poems: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

twitter poems

See any good poetry on Twitter lately? We see it every day. Here are ten of the best Twitter poems we’ve seen lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets

Take Your Poet to Work: Adrienne Rich

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Adrienne Rich cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day will be here before you know it. Get ready now with this week’s new poet, Adrienne Rich.

Filed Under: Adrienne Rich, love poems, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Woman Poems

Take Your Poet to Work: Langston Hughes

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Langston Hughes cover

Be the envy of your coworkers when you bring Langston Hughes to the office with you for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 16. He’s our first poet of 2014.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching Resources, Langston Hughes, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Poets and Poems: Ron Padgett and “Collected Poems”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

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“Collected Poems” by Ron Padgett covers more than 50 years of work, summing up a life lived in the creation of poetry.

Filed Under: Funny Poems, Getting Published, Humorous Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

twitter poetry

One of the things poetry and Twitter have in common (when done well) is an economy of words. When we see good Twitter poetry, we stop and take notice.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

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