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Poetry Prompt: Angry Poem Stacks

By Callie Feyen 9 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she shares how editor L.L. Barkat helped her pay attention to her anger using the Jealous Poem Stacks model.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Writing Life, writing prompt, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Poetry Prompt: Imagination Poems

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you dream of when you are out in the world?

Join author Callie Feyen as she walks down a one-hundred-year-old alley and dreams about what it is she might become someday.

Filed Under: poetry prompt, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Mystery Poems for Halloween

By Callie Feyen 18 Comments

What's the difference between mystery and fear?

What’s the difference between mystery and fear? Join Callie Feyen as she discusses trying to create mystery poems from what makes us afraid.

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

Poetry Prompt: Fall Invitation Poems

By Callie Feyen 23 Comments

Write your memories of fall so clearly that we see ourselves in them.

Writer Callie Feyen takes advice from poet Tania Runyan and instead of describing, she invites the reader into a memory of a fall day.

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

Fall Poetry Prompt: Coming Home Poems

By Callie Feyen 16 Comments

How is the season of fall a homecoming?

A new name for an old tradition takes author Callie Feyen on a trip down memory lane, and she finds herself at home on a rainy fall evening. Come home, too, with your own poems!

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

Poetry Prompt: October, Fall, and Foliage “As In” Poems

By Callie Feyen 13 Comments

How do you describe October?

October, as fresh and beautiful as it is, lends itself to cliche. This week, try an “As In” poem to see and describe October, fall, and foliage in a new way.

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

Poetry Prompt: The Alphabet—Letter Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

What letters can you find among animals and insects?

Let’s take a look at the alphabet and see what creatures crawl and spring from letters we know so well. Then, it’s time to write letter poems!

Filed Under: Blog, L.L. Barkat, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Rumors of Water, The Alphabet, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Sparkler Sensory Poems

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

Summers mean sparklers! A spark doesn’t last; its impression – the color, the singe, the crackle – does. Join us this week and bring that impression to others when you try your hand at sparkler sensory poetry.

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

Onomatopoeia Firework Poems

By Callie Feyen 16 Comments

Ghengis Fireworks

Feeling a word before we actually know its definition is like a firework. Join Callie Feyen and write some “firework” words with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Fireworks, writing prompts

How to Turn Your Story Questions Into Writing Prompts!

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

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After reading a good story, you can follow these three easy steps to turn your story questions into writing prompts. See 5 sample prompts based on the fairy tale ‘The Golden Dress,’ to help you on your writing way!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Activities, Children's Stories, Fairytales, Finding Inspiration, Teach It, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts, Writing Tips

How to Find the Best Poems

Our editors spend hundreds of hours each year to find only the best poems!   With Every Day Poems, you relax and get: • a best poem every weekday • convenient inbox delivery • a beautiful photo with the poem, to refresh your spirit • includes 6-10 poems that explore an inspiring    monthly theme […]

Infographic: How to Write a Cinquain Poem

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

We have Adelaide Crapsey, the butterfly, the reverse, Spanish quintillas and Sicilian quintains. Don’t miss our new How to Write a Cinquain infographic and cheer for your favorite variation.

Filed Under: cinquain, Infographics, poetry teaching resources

Wall Poems: Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 9 Comments

wall poems poetry prompt

Settled in the crevices of brick and mortar, there are poems. Written on walls in Europe and here in the States, poetry lives and breathes in cities and villages. Join us and learn a little about wall poems and where you can find some. You can even write your own wall poem.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Veils and Walls, writer's group resources, writing prompt

Top 10 Best Ship, Sail & Boat Poems

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Top 10 Ships, Sails and Boat Poems rowboats in sunrise

From the drifting of free verse to the mooring of form the sea is just waiting for poetry to sail in. Enjoy ten great poems about ships, sailing, and boats.

Filed Under: Blog, Boat Poems, Poems, Sea Poems, Ship, Ship-Sail-Boat

Top 10 Poems by Invitation

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poems by Invitation - mail slot on brick wall

Have you tried our 5-day poetry prompt mini-series? We’re featuring 10 of our favorite community contributions based on prompts from How to Write a Poem.

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Poem, Poems, poetry prompt

Top 10 Best Science Poems

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Top 10 Science Poems - bottle at Heidleberg Apothacary Museum

Is it possible that without science there might be no poetry? Or could the opposite be true? Test the hypothesis with 10 best science poems.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work, Science Poems

Coloring Page Poems: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Longfellow The Tide Rises coloring page - boat by seaside

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.”

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, Sea Poems

How to Write a Poem in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Secret Tool

By Joel Jacobson 16 Comments

Red and White flower-How to Write a Poem

High school English teacher Joel Jacobson shares his experience teaching a new advanced creative writing class using Tania Runyan’s How to Write a Poem. (Features student poems.)

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a Poem, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Student Writing

Top 10 Best Garden Poems

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Top 10 Garden poems - red maple leaf in green ferns

While you wait for your flowers to bloom and your garden to produce its fruit, enjoy this collection of 10 great garden poems.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, Blog, Flower Poems, Garden Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry

How to Write a Poem: An Invitation

By T.S. Poetry 281 Comments

Are you using How to Write a Poem yet? We want to extend a great invitation that could result in your poems or stories being shared.

Filed Under: How to Write a Poem, poetry teaching resources

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