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Poet-a-Day: Meet Dheepa Maturi

By Tania Runyan 10 Comments

Indian classical dance

What if you have no words for a layered, mysterious experience? The ghazal might be just your form. It was for Dheepa Maturi, who speaks through dance.

Filed Under: Blog, Ghazal Poems, National Poetry Month, Poet-a-Day

Poet-a-Day: Meet Ashley M. Jones

By Tania Runyan 13 Comments

Birmingham Skyline View From Quarry

What can the villanelle offer a poet? Ashley M. Jones has a suggestion—and a container for obsession or sorrow.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching, How to Write a Form Poem, Poet-a-Day, poetry teaching resources, Villanelles, writer's group resources

Poet-a-Day: Meet Marjorie Maddox

By Tania Runyan 8 Comments

Pink Magnolia Poet-a-Day Mary Poppins poem

Why write a pantoum? Poet Marjorie Maddox shares her reasons, on the wings of poetry and song.

Filed Under: Blog, Childhood Poems, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a Form Poem, Interviews, Pantoum Poems, Poet-a-Day, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Poets, writer's group resources

National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light

By Tania Runyan 20 Comments

Gatsby Kindle on Table

This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Classic Books, English Teaching Resources, National Poetry Month, Patron Only

Children’s Book Club: ‘And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon’

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series of green dunes

Why learn nursery rhymes? For the jokes! Join our Children’s Book Club as we read “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.”

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Children's Book Club, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories, Mother Goose

Lord of the Flies: Simon Writes Home

By Tania Runyan Leave a Comment

Twelve Apostles National Park Lord of the Flies

Not all the boys on the island will admit it, but homesickness is one of the greatest challenges the Lord of the Flies characters face. Poet Tania Runyan and the boys of the island explore a “letters home” epistolary poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Lord of the Flies, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt

Poetry Prompt: Small Things

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

When feelings are wild, how do you do to help them find a story?

Join author Callie Feyen as she acknowledges some beastly feelings, and through the gift of small things, turns them into poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poet Laura: Chocolate Saves Mardi Gras

By Laura Boggess 10 Comments

Snowy trees for Poet Laura and ice storm

Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, spends Mardi Gras without power but offers up a chocolate sonnet after a gift from her chocolate patron.

Filed Under: Blog, Chocolate Poems, Poet Laura

Poetry Prompt: The Villanelle

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Feeling all the feelings these days? Consider containing them (and letting them breathe) in a villanelle.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Villanelles, writing prompt, writing prompts

“‘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; […]

The Yellow Wallpaper Characters

The Yellow Wallpaper Weir Mitchell

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 […]

Poetry Prompt: Unhoped Joy

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Where this week, will you find joy unhoped for?

What does joy that is unhoped for look like? Join author Callie Feyen as she explores the warmth of gloves and other gifts from the pandemic.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, william shakespeare, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poet Laura: Poultry Poetry—Feeding Grapes and Reading Sonnets to Chickens

By Laura Boggess 2 Comments

Water Droplets on grapes

This month, our intrepid Poet Laura visits chickens on a chilly day, bearing delicious grapes and heartfelt sonnets.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, Poet Laura, Shakespeare, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

To Kill a Mockingbird’s Boo Radley: A Poetic Secret Message

By Tania Runyan 10 Comments

Imagine the secrets of Boo Radley, get creative & put your imagination into a poem. Read a To Kill a Mockingbird poem by Tania Runyan first, to get started!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, To Kill a Mockingbird, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Children’s Book Club: ‘Katy and the Big Snow’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

snow storm Mt. Fuji

Read “Katie and the Big Snow” by Virginia Lee Burton, a story of a snow plow named Katie that makes life a little easier during a crisis.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

“Finding” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Finding Out of great darkness and wide wastes of silence,      Long loneliness, and slow untasted years,    Came a slow filling of the empty places,    A slow, sweet lighting of forgotten faces,                A smiling under tears. A light of dawn that filled the brooding heaven,      A warmth that kindled […]

“A Type” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel cropped cover

< 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 […]

“Heroism” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel cropped cover

< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Heroism It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain; To lift the weight of the unnumbered years Of dead men’s habits, methods, and ideas; To hold that back with one hand, and support With the other the weak steps of a new thought. It […]

“The Commonplace” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel cropped cover

< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems The Commonplace Life is so weary commonplace! Too fair Were those young visions of the poet and seer. Nothing exciting ever happens here. Just eat and drink, and dress and chat; Life is so tedious, slow, and flat, And every day alike in everywhere! Birth comes. Birth— The […]

“Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper?” an essay by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Forerunner Original 1913 October Issue Published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    The following essay is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote The Yellow Wall-Paper. It was first published in The Forerunner in October 1913. Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper? Many and many a reader has asked that. When the story first came out, in the New England Magazine about 1891, a Boston […]

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