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Poet Laura: The Consequence of Cats

By Sandra Fox Murphy 7 Comments

cat standing on head

Go on the prowl this month with Sandra Fox Murphy, our 2025 Poet Laura, for some cat poem sleuthing and housecat bossing.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, Poet Laura, poetry prompt

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Cat Who Saved Books’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Why save books? Because they have souls. Join our Children’s Book Club as we read Sosuke Natsukawa’s “The Cat Who Saved Books.”

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Cat Poems, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘Coraline’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

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Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” is a spooky story that kids read as an adventure tale. Join us for this month’s Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Halloween Poems

WordCandy Sweet Bloggers: Quoting Cats

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

wordcandy cats

I had visions of growing old in a house full of cats (all offspring of the mangy Mommy Kitty and her many-timing orange Tom), and spending my final days surrounded in my living room recliner by litter boxes and tuna cans piled as high as my chest, a world speckled in cat dander in which I never meant to live. Cats can do that to a person.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, WordCandy

Now Look Who’s Writing Poetry: Cats

By Glynn Young 27 Comments

Upside down cat

Cats write poems about family, work, play, and existence in I Could Pee on This by Francesco Marciuliano.

Filed Under: Animal Poems, article, Blog, Cat Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Short Poems

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

top ten poetry picks

Cats and poetry, caffeine and creativity, painting memes and tweeting the OED. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Caught Flashing

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Everyone knows writing conferences can get a little crazy. In fact, this normally prim poet was just caught flashing at the Midwest Writers Workshop. Fiction flashing, that is. I should have seen it coming. I hadn’t written fiction in nearly two decades, was let loose in Muncie, Indiana, without my husband and kids, and was […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Short Story, writing prompts

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