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Poetry Prompt: Being a Pilgrim and a Martha Stewart Homemaker

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join Callie Feyen and her journey into a 744 page book from Martha Stewart Homemaker. Then find yourself reflecting on what it means to be a pilgrim who alternately breaks myths and embraces them.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Holy Land”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Beard Falls Holy Land ODonnell

For poet Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, “Holy Land” has many definitions, encompassing not only the geographic but also those of lived experience.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Love in the Time of Coronavirus”

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“Love in the Time of Coronavirus” by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is the poet’s journal of the pandemic year and its change and upheaval.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Andalusian Hours”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

In “Andalusian Hours,” poet and writer Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has created a tribute to Flannery O’Connor, one of the 20th century’s most original writers.

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Poets and Poems: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and “Still Pilgrim”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Girl in Woods Still Pilgrim

“Still Pilgrim” by poet Angela Alaimo O’Donnell tells us that both the major events of our lives and the everyday are but steps in a pilgrimage.

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Re-Inventing the Ode

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 31 Comments

re-inventing the ode

Creating a traditional ode allows the poet to use her outdoor voice. It is a profoundly public medium, daring to speak to and for everyone.

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Top 10 Poems with Make-or-Break Titles

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

top ten poem titles

Your poem title sets the tone. We show how changing a title can create an entirely different poem. Plus 9 poems with make-or-break titles!

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Poetry: Mirroring the Unseen

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 3 Comments

mirror poetry

Both poems and mirrors “Tell all the Truth, ” as Emily Dickinson insisted, but they “tell it slant.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell talks poetry and mirrors.

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Make Time for Wine and Poetry

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 6 Comments

wine and poetry

In the hands of the poets, wine is poetry and poetry is wine. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, together with wine and poetry, invites you to the Feast of Life.

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My Life as a Cento

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 23 Comments

Cento Poems Lightbulb on Mosaic

Cento (Lat. “patchwork”). A verse composition made up of lines selected from the work or works of some great poet(s) of the past. —The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics Like most poets, I have a notebook. Mine is a chunky tablet, 5×7 inches, with a large spiral binding and two thick boards that serve […]

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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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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “Saint Sinatra”

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

St. Sinatra is a collection that is at once serious and humorous, focused and yet playful. It speaks to and about saints who are both familiar and known for being saints as well as those who are not.

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