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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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By Any Other Name

By Paul Willis 12 Comments

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My interest in roses took a turn three years ago, however, when Sharon and I lost our home to a wildfire on the outskirts of Santa Barbara and temporarily rented a place in town near the old mission.

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Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 9 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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My “Poem-ography”

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Who – what poems – would comprise your “poem-ography?”

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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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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 12 Comments

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

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 5 Comments

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

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Lace Under the Stars

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

It was another Twitter poetry party, and the poetic lines just glistened.

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What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 1

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 13 Comments

Woman Blurred What is Poetry

The first step towards falling in love, of course, is the cultivation of friendship. And so I have to convince my students that poetry—and the poets who write them—are friends worth getting to know.

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Glass Slipper Sonnets

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 46 Comments

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Does a writing a sonnet feel like an ill fit? This fun glass slipper essay will make it (a little) easier.

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Saturday Night Date with a Sonnet

By Karen Swallow Prior 14 Comments

Sonnet Why Write Poetry

The rules of a sonnet, it turns out, set us free to explore.

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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 […]

Talking with Maureen Doallas about “Neruda’s Memoirs”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

An interview with poet Maureen Doallas, about her background and poetic history, going into the publishing of her first book ‘Neruda’s Memoirs.’

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A Leopard’s Smile 2

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Below are four additional poems from Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party. The prompts for the jam all came from the play Richard II, by Wiliam Shakespeare.

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A Leopard’s Smile

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

It was a small but wildly enthusiastic group that met Tuesday night for the Twitter poetry party.

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Tweet Speak Sonnets – May 2010

These are the entries for our Tweet Speak Sonnets in May. You can read the official rules of that game at GoodWordEditing.com (playfully dubbed “Exploding Ninja Poetry”). If you are inclined, try your hand at a sonnet. Italian sonnets use the rhyme scheme ABBAABBACDECDE. Shakespearean sonnets use the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. (Since we only had […]

Poems of Complication 3

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Below are seven additional poems based on the tweets from last Tuesday’s poetry jam on Twitter. Poems of Complication 3 By @mdgoodyear, @llbarkat, @PoemsPrayers, @mxings, @togetherforgood, @cascheller, @mmerubies, @MonicaSharman, @DancinButterfly, @thegypsymama, @TchrEric and @KathleenOverby. Not to mention @shrinkingcamel. Edited by @glynn_poet. The Moon Goodess and the Man in the Moon It shall be a game […]

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National Poetry Month: Wendell Berry’s “Leavings”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Author, poet and essayist Wendell Berry has been known for talking walks on Sunday mornings, walks that he uses for both observation and meditation. Most of Leavings: Poems is a kind of historical record of those walks, poems that observe, poems that are a meditation, and sometimes poems that are both. It is a beautiful […]

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National Poetry Month: “Ballistics” by Billy Collins

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Billy Collins served as U.S. poet laureate for two terms (2001-2003), and New York state poet from 2004-2006. He’s published 12 books of poetry and edited three others. The New York Times has called him “the most popular poet in America, ” and he’s something rather odd in publishing circles – several of his books […]

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