Tattoos as art, trading guns for art, pigs writing poetry, and taking poetry into outer space. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
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Memoir Notebook: Elements of Style
Memoir Notebook is a monthly column dedicated to longer creative non-fiction works. Today, Wm. Anthony Connolly is cutting onions. Or is he?
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It’s poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Night at the Classroom (A Poetry Prompt)
Making Grendel from paper mâché? Perhaps you’d rather just write a creature poem. Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt from literature’s greatest creatures.
Carry a Shield: 10 Good Books About Dragons
Adventures with dragons may be a rite of childhood. Kimberlee Conway Ireton has 10 great books about dragons to read with your children.
10 Fun Shakespeare Resources Online
In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, enjoy this fun collection of Shakespeare resources from around the web.
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.
Frumious Nonsense & Jabberwock Thoughts (A Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines spins a ferocious new poetry prompt from the nonsense words of Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky.’
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 POETIC PICKS
154 actors for 154 sonnets, exhuming Neruda, toddlers reciting poetry. Seth Haines has a brand new week of Top Ten Poetic Picks.
St. George of the Bayou (A Poetry Prompt)
St. George of the Bayou spins a dragon tale and a brand new poetry prompt.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poetry at Work: A Poet Jump Starts a Company
A poet was asked to create a celebration for a company that was to be spun off as a separate organization.
Puff The Magic Dragon v. The Chupacabra (A Poetry Prompt)
Start April with some poetry about dragons and creatures, and a brand new creature-themed musical playlist to get your poetry juices flowing.
The Poetics of Learning (and Loving) Language
The earthy poetry of Pablo Neruda hands me words I’ve never heard, but that make perfect and instant sense, words I was looking for without knowing.
Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity
Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.
The Collaborative Pantoum (A Writing Prompt)
The pantoum is a metaphor, an artistic expression of cooperation, and the perfect poetic medium for artistic collaboration. Seth Haines invites you to join with other poets in a collaborative pantoum in the comments.
Memoir Notebook: Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference
Memoir Notebook is a new monthly (sometimes more) column. Today, to the Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Or maybe to the blind man on the street.
Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel
“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup on the Prairie
We round up another month of WordCandy quotes, poetry, photos with our Sweet Bloggers.