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Poetic Voices: Jen Karetnick and E. Kristin Anderson
Both Jen Karetnick and E. Kristin Anderson use subjects in popular culture to inspire their poetry: Karetnick writes about food; Anderson, about the pop star Prince.
Mastering the Elements of Story—Workshop!
A workshop that will help you write the best stories—to sell or to share. Starts February 29.
Top 10 Writing Quotes to Get You Started in 2016
Whether you included your writing goals in your 2016 resolutions, this collection of 10 great writing quotes might give you the inspiration you need to get started.
Poetry Prompt: What Dreams May Come
This month’s poetry prompt theme draws us into our subconscious mind, the place of dreams. Learn something about dream analysis and create a poem about a memorable dream you’ve had. Put on your jammies and join us!
House & Home Poetry Prompt: The Kitchen
Come in to our kitchen and let us pour you a cup of coffee while we discuss the heart of the home and create poetry. Join us!
Math, Science, & Technology Poetry Prompt: Wider Than the Sky
Will a computer ever surpass the capacity of the brain? This week’s poetry prompt invites you to consider the binary mind.
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Did Allen Ginsberg howl or throw the first pitch. Push yourself or forgive yourself? Cognitive bias or creativity boost? It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Letters to a Young Editor—How to Use College the Best Way You Can
How can you use college to someday become a great editor? (If you’re already out of college, these tips will still apply.)
Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 3)
Sandra Heska King concludes her “Dreaming with Darwish” poetry dare, reflecting on the ways the dreams, and poems, will stay with her.
Epic Poetry: Invocation of the Muse Prompt
Seek and find your muse and bring her along to inspire a poem. What’s a muse? How do you invoke one like the Greeks did? Homer shows the way.
Epic Poetry: Playlist and Prompt
In our new Epic Poetry playlist, you’ll find songs inspired by many grand epics and songs that simply sound epic. Listen along and perhaps they’ll spur you to be bold, to take a risk, to dare.
Memoir Notebook: Molly and the Thieves
In our latest Memoir Notebook, Richard Maxson remembers his beloved German Shepherd Molly, in a tale of love, loss, and a band of thieves.
Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish
In her first Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King wonders if Darwish is writing about a person or place, a man or woman, himself or someone else.
Circus & Carnival Poetry and Photo Prompt: Run Away With the Circus
This week, our prompt encourages you to run away with the circus. You can be a lion tamer, an acrobat, anything! Write a poem about your new adventure.
Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines
We began a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to take a dip into poetry with us. Discover the power of a single line.
Mahmoud Darwish and the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare
We’ve challenged Sandra Heska King to a brand new adventure, the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare with the dream-like poetry of Mahmoud Darwish at the center. Come along and follow your dream? We dare you.
Top 10 Places in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry takes a trek across the length of England. Here are our Top 10 stops along the way.
Poetic Voices: Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs
In recent collections Rachel Heimowitz and J.L. Jacobs deal with the sense of place – contemporary Israel and the places of childhood and imagination.
Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets
Odds are Shakespeare wrote far more than 154 sonnets. But of the 154 that have survived, here are 10 of the very best Shakespeare sonnets!