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Poetry Review: Mark Jarman’s “Bone Fires”
A review of “Bone Fires: News and Selected Poems, ” by Mark Jarman, notes his development of the themes of family, faith, and doubt.
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!
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Cats and poetry, caffeine and creativity, painting memes and tweeting the OED. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Curious Words: The Art of Prospiring
Put a new spin on your procrastination — learn a new word and use prospiring to boost your creative inspiration.
Poets & Writers Toolkit: Read and Respond
In our Poets & Writers Toolkit series, Charity Singleton Craig features the writing technique “read and respond” as a means for a writer to use another’s words to launch their own ideas.
Storm King Art Center
Take a walking tour with Maureen Doallas through the grounds of the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.
How to Think Like a Creative Genius Workshops
In these workshops, we’ll explore what it means to build and live a creative life. Using Leonardo da Vinci’s 7 principles and journal-keeping style, we’ll return to our senses and creative centers.
How to Think Like a Creative Genius 2013 (I & II)
Need to be more creative, get a better job, jumpstart your writing, or pursue your dreams? Most people believe you’re either born creative or you aren’t, sort of like hitting the artistic jackpot (or not). This isn’t true. Just look at any toddler exploring the world. Everything is new, creative, a learning experience. We’re born […]
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Hi There Stars
Sometimes poetry is just begging not to be understood. In this week’s ‘poemcrazy’ book club installment, we’re invited to ‘not think, not understand.’
Top 10 Poetry Sites to Follow for National Poetry Month
Who to follow for National Poetry Month (and maybe all year long). The best in poetry sites.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.
Memoir Workshop: Let It Make All the Difference
Looking to get your memoir published? Or explore memoir techniques, as a form of personal journey? This might be the workshop for you.
2013 Memoir Workshop
Looking to get your memoir published? Or explore memoir techniques, as a form of personal journey? This might be the workshop for you. Starts April 1st • Class limited to 10 participants Online memoir workshop with editor Mick Silva. Mick has served as an editor at Waterbrook/Random House. We think you’re going to appreciate his […]
Poetry at Work: Dana Gioia on Poetry in Business
The conventional American wisdom is that poets “must be people out of the ordinary; they must be strong, even eccentric individuals.” In other words, Walt Whitman fits our preconceived notions; Wallace Stevens, corporate lawyer, does not.
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.
Poetry at Work: What Poetry Brings to Business
In “What Poetry Brings to Business, ” Clare Morgan combines academic and business styles to explain the benefits poetry can provide to business enterprises.
Poetry at Work: Workplace Challenges and Problems
Writing poetry about conflicts, challenges, and problems in the workplace can help lead to understanding and, sometimes, resolution.