Why Mark Twain (and countless high school students) wants to dig up Jane Austen and find her shin bone. Love it or hate it, Pride and Prejudice still tops the charts.
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Mischief Cafe: Lincoln, Nebraska
How do we love, across gaps and miles, and different ways of holding our teacups? The Mischief Café asks serious questions amidst great laughter.
National Student Poet Louis Lafair: Part 2
National Student Poet Louis Lafair discusses the influences of his poetry, and his vision for experiencing poetry in the 21st century.
Journey into Poetry: Maureen Doallas
For some, reading and writing poetry is a way “through the tunnel and back into the light.” Follow Maureen Doallas’ Journey into Poetry.
Writer’s Workshop: The Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
A hero’s journey writing workshop you won’t forget, with leader Gloria Kempton. Kempton has worked with over 10, 000 writers to get them to the next level!
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The literary novel might be dead, how to get Stephen King’s royalties, wrestling Ulysses and haiku-izing your status update. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Library Hotel Picks a Poetry Garden Winner!
Who won the Poetry Garden poem pick at Library Hotel? Check it out (and see some of the other choices!)
Top Ten Tweets (and a thousand other things) from Poetry at Work Day
From newsrooms to libraries, from the Scottish parliament to the coffee shop, Poetry at Work Day was celebrated around the world. Here are our highlights.
Night Poetry: Acquainted with the Night
Night poetry can be the poetry of acquaintance. With the light narrowed, we pull in close to things that are near.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
San Francisco in toothpicks, getting Beowulf wrong, everything Emily Dickinson ever wrote on. It’s this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Shakespeare in its original English. Or Shakespeare rewritten. Infographics, code poetry, bad real estate photos and artful cookies. Find all this and more in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Poetry as diplomacy, waiting for tattoos, unsplitting infinitives and the poetry of labor. all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
The Writing Life: Beginnings, Pt. 1
The athlete of the family lives in the shadow of her brother while secretly dreaming of a writing life of her own.
Bottles & Cans: A Playlist and Poetry Prompt
Can you put bottles and cans in your poems? Join us for our new Bottled & Canned theme, and a brand new playlist and poetry prompt.
Rock ‘n Roll Lyrics: Poetry Prompt
Get your lyrics on and write a rock ‘n roll poem. Read one too, with an SRV.
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.
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.
Poets & Writers Toolkit: Paper
For your poets & writers toolkit, consider the matter of paper. Paper has a geography. It affects your actions.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art I have always wondered about the resale market for stolen art. We’ve all seen the great art-heist capers where a stolen Monet was carried across the world in a courier tube and sold to some Italian billionaire who, despite running an […]