We’ll be accepting Megan Willome’s invitation to experience The Joy of Poetry with our new book club beginning May 4.
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Memoir Notebook: In the Jingle Jangle Morning, 1965
A young Richard Maxson takes off in the Jingle Jangle Morning of Bob Dylan’s “Tambourine Man” on a cross country road trip and into his own Tomorrowland.
“The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606″
“The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606” by James Shapiro is a masterful re-creation of a critical year in the life of William Shakespeare.
Every Day Ideas: Every Day Sketches
Use a line from an Every Day Poems selection and share pictures of your Every Day Sketches, and we’ll save them for possible inclusion in a special “Every Day Ideas” ebook.
Time Poetry Prompt: Poem to My 12-Year Old Self
What kind of poetic advice would you give your 12-year-old self? Join us as we consider what we might say to make our formative years a little easier to navigate.
Poets and Poems: Clive James and “Sentenced to Life”
“Sentenced to Life” by Clive James is not about dealing with death; instead, it is the story of a poet discovering life.
Poets and Poems: Laurie Klein and “Where the Sky Opens”
“Where the Sky Opens” by Laurie Klein shows how poems can help us navigate major life changes.
Memoir Notebook: My Moveable Feast
In our latest Memoir Notebook, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega travels to Paris and encounters Ernest Hemingway and his Moveable Feast.
Regional Tour: Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State University
Sandra Heska King tours the Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State U, discovering culture through teapots, quilts, hats and illegal hatpins.
Using T.S. Eliot to Explain PTSD
In fictional and almost poetic form, Andy Owen describes what has gone by such names as shell shock and battle fatigue but we know as PTSD.
Falling in Love with “Brooklyn”
The movie “Brooklyn, ” about the Irish immigrant experience in America in the 1950s, is a movie to fall in love with.
T.S. Eliot at the British Library, Part 2
Collecting and annotating the poetry of a writer like T.S. Eliot is fraught with challenges and difficulties, not the least reason being Eliot himself editing his poems over time, or manuscripts of the same poem with variations. Listen to two editors who described the challenge at a British Library presentation.
Building Minds: Block Play as a Writing, Thinking, and Math Tool
Through constructive block play—which is actually a form of story-making—children use their hands and bodies to build their minds.
Poets and Poems: Dave Harrity and “These Intricacies”
In his new collection of poems, Dave Harrity tells stories with simplicity and clarity, firmly planted in his Kentucky landscape.
A Month with Keats: Keats and Wentworth House
Our Keats Walk finally takes us to Wentworth House, now known as Keats House, where John Keats wrote some of his greatest poems.
From Delphi to Camden: James Whitcomb Riley
Charity Singleton Craig reflects on following the ghost of James Whitcomb Riley through Hoosier country.
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.
Making Little Free Library No. 25, 001
A new Little Free Library in Michelle DeRusha’s Lincoln, NE, neighborhood brings out the dog-walkers, the amblers, the wanderers and the book lovers.
A Month with Keats: A Walk into His Life
A “Keats Walk” in Hampstead and Hampstead Heath in north London is a window into John Keats’ poetry, passions, and life.
5 Great Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud
How can we read a poem aloud in a way that captures its essence? With these five tips, reading poetry aloud can be done with intentionality and confidence.