Tim Kendall’s anthology “Poetry of the First World War” explains how poetry came to be so connected with “the war to end all wars.”
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Memoir Notebook: Double I/Eye
You’ll attempt in memoir to recall as best you can, but it’s not always possible. One possible avenue of resolving the memory folly is splitting the memoirist in two.
Reading & Writing Workshops: Tolkien Lord of the Rings
A Tolkien Workshop focusing on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, that will lead you to the depths (and back!)
Poets and Poems: Wendell Berry and “This Day”
“This Day, ” Wendell Berry’s new collected Sabbath poems, remind us of the wholeness, consistency and beauty of his literary writing.
Anna Akhmatova and the Poetry of Resilience
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova experienced personal tragedy, war, revolution, civil war, and Stalinist repression, and still wrote haunting poetry.
Poets and Poems: Thomas Merton and “In the Dark Before Dawn”
Thomas Merton continues to exert a significant pull on the imagination, the intellect, and the conscience.
Ten Surprising Secrets to Make Your Book Go Viral
Every author wants to know how to make their book go viral. Here are ten surprising secrets from a top-selling author, to send you on your way.
Poets and Poems: Ron Padgett and “Collected Poems”
“Collected Poems” by Ron Padgett covers more than 50 years of work, summing up a life lived in the creation of poetry.
Poem Analysis: Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach
“The sea is calm tonight…” An evocative poem analysis focusing on the imagery in Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. Insightful and helpful…
Poets and Poems: “Selected Poems 1923-1975” by Robert Penn Warren
Poets and Poems features “Selected Poems 1923-1975, ” which reflects the poetic maturity of Robert Penn Warren’s work of than 60 years.
3 Rules for Pretending to Be a Writer
What can children’s play teach you about how to be a writer? It can teach you how to pretend, which maybe a step in your writing journey.
Reading and Writing Workshops: Tolkien I – The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, & Tolkien Life
Are you a lover of Tolkien who wants to learn more about the depths of his mythology? This workshop is for you!
Poetry at Work Day: Resource Table Ideas
Poetry at Work Day is coming January 14, 2014. Librarians, college departments, offices, this is for you. Simple ideas for a resource table.
How to Become a Better Writer: Write Like a Painter
Can studying the work of a visual artist teach you how to become a better writer? Charity Singleton Craig thinks so, with four paintings by Henri Matisse.
Literary Tours: Sleepy Hollow’s Washington Irving House
Our virtual Literary Tours travels to the villages of Sleepy Hollow and neighboring Tarrytown, New York, to visit Washington Irving’s home, “Sunnyside.”
Memoir Notebook: Folie a Deux — The Ghost in You
By way of our Memoir Notebook, we want you to meander, get caught up, find yourself taken to places you hadn’t intended to go (but are so glad, in the end, that you went). You’ll get thoughts on aesthetics, craft, latest issues, tips and books to read. But it will feel like poetic narrative. And sometimes it will simply be poetic narrative.
Journey into Poetry: Richard Maxson
Richard Maxson kept journals, wrote essays, and penned a couple of one-act plays, but never poetry.
The Tattoo’s Dark Side: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
We wrap up our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos considering the tattoo’s dark side with Kafka and Tony Hoagland.
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.
Tattoo and Identity: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
This week in our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow we consider the tattoo and identity — the way a tattoo can broadcast one’s identity, and how it might seem to have the power to create it, impose it, even take it away.