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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 3 Comments

The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 13 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art I love mash-ups! Today I have two: The Music and Art Mashup I am one of the least musical people I know. I can’t read music, and I can’t carry a tune—in a bucket or otherwise. But I found a […]

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Journey into Poetry: Reno K. Lawrence

By Reno K. Lawrence 14 Comments

For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing poetry, brainstorming lines. I imagine the right-brained play is overflowing into my creative process on the job.

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By Heart: Because You Might Need It Like Marie Ponsot

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 11 Comments

Dahlia Marie Ponsot Poetry 2

When poet Marie Ponsot suffered a stroke at the age of 89, she lost all of her language.

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Anne Overstreet: Influences and Faith

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

In June, poet Anne Overstreet published her first collection of poems, entitled Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems. It is about memory and faith, affection and love, work done and work done well, and even playfulness. The poems are about a life observed, but also a life to come. It’s a beautiful work.

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Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat, Creator, Tweetspeak Poetry, T. S. Poetry Press, Every Day Poems, and Poetic Earth Month I’m a former educator who believes in the heart of a teacher and the soul of a student, and I’m currently giving my own heart and soul to bringing beauty and joy to the education process through the many […]

Why I Want to Write Useless Poetry

By Marcus Goodyear 2 Comments

There are so many things you can do with your time. I want to write useless poetry. Because it’s like play.

Filed Under: poems about writing, poetry, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

National Poetry Month: L.L. Barkat

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

L.L. Barkat is a writer, editor, poet, columnist, speaker and entrepreneur. She is the author of Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places, God in the Yard: Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us, and InsideOut: Poems. Barkat is Managing Editor at The High Calling and staff writer for International Arts Movement’s The […]

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Contingency Plans: Poems

CATALOG DESCRIPTION Author: David K Wheeler Website: Dave Writes Right Contact: davie [dot] wheeler [at] gmail [dot] com 5.5″ x 8.5″ 102 pages paperback, $14 978-0984553129 Available through Ingram & Amazon October 2010 POETRY Summary Contingency Plans maps the body, the land, and the hollows therein, eager to determine their dimensions, carried along by the […]

Robotics in Verse

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

At last Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party, all poetic prompts were from Robert Pinsky’s Death and the Powers

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National Poetry Month: Jack Gilbert

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Jack Gilbert (1925 – ) published his first book of poems, Views of Jeopardy, in 1962, and his second, Monolithos, nearly 20 years later. In between he moved to Europe, traveled as a lecturer on American literature for the U.S. State Department. He’s also the author of three other books of poetry: Transgressions: Selected Poems, […]

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Tara and Birds: 2 Poems

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Surreal poems of birds, corsets, a Chinese jar, and love.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Cento Poems, love poems, love poetry, poetry, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

Poet Scott Cairns’ “Short Trip to the Edge”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poet Scott Cairns writes about four pilgrimages he makes to spiritual centers of the Eastern Orthodox Church – three in Greece, one to a center in Arizona.

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L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat is Managing Editor of TheHighCalling.org and Staff Writer for International Arts Movement’s The Curator. She’s the author of three books— God in the Yard: Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us, Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places and InsideOut: Poems. You can find her at Seedlings in Stone or follow […]

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