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Artist Date: Getting the Mail

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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Ready for an Artist Date? Lace up your red sneakers and let’s go walk out to pick up the mail.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!

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Artist Date: Sesquicentennial

By Laura Boggess 27 Comments

Come along on an Artist Date? This week, we explore a state capitol and see what its history can tell us.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

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Apps that analyze your writing voice, your poetry, your reading preferences. It’s all in the math and science of This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Curious Words: The Art of Prospiring

By Barbara Bos Spencer 20 Comments

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Put a new spin on your procrastination — learn a new word and use prospiring to boost your creative inspiration.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Finding Inspiration, Whole Life, Word Curiosities, Writing Tips

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It’s poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

A Book of Beginnings: Story Over Tea

By L.L. Barkat 15 Comments

Story Beginning 2 by Claire Burge

It is just a beginning. That’s all you need, though you might not know it.

Filed Under: A Book of Beginnings, Blog, writer's group resources

Poets and Writers Toolkit: Six-Word Memoirs

By Charity Singleton Craig 54 Comments

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Charity Singleton Craig hosts a segment of our Poets and Writers Toolkit featuring Six-Word Memoirs to spark creativity.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, writer's group resources

Artist Date: Suds

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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Take an Artist Date in the frigid early spring air above a spillway pulsating with rich white foam.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog, Creativity

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.

Filed Under: article, Creativity, Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Seanfilms.com Inspirational Video: You Got This

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

An inspirational video from Seanfilms.com. Poignant illustration of the cycle we can go through from suffering and anger to realization of our true selves.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Videos

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama’s new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 6 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art There is a split of authority in my house. I tend to identify with the poetry of William Carlos Williams—so much depends upon that red wheelbarrow. I imagine the objects of Williams’ poetry, perhaps attaching a bit of unwarranted sentimentality or nostalgia […]

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This Year’s Top 10 Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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The editors have culled our very favorite links from our weekly Top 10 Poetic Picks from 2012.

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Leaving Art Behind

By Charity Singleton Craig 7 Comments

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Charity Singleton explores the risks inherent in creating art, and leaving art behind.

Filed Under: Art

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Random acts of poetry, communing with nature is not an excuse to get out of the office, going to class with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks with Seth Haines.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

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