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Operation Poetry Dare: What a Poetry Buddy Is For

By Megan Willome 28 Comments

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When we dared poetry-avoidant Nancy Franson to read a poem a day, we arranged for her to have a Poetry Buddy to read along and ask questions. Today Megan Willome shares her side of the Poetry Dare.

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Operation Poetry Dare: For the Love

By Nancy Franson 38 Comments

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Can poetry be taught or learned? Or is it a relationship one enters into? Nancy Franson continues her experimental reading in the Poetry Dare. Settle down now. Drink some cranberry juice.

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Hand-Selected Poem a Day, Just $5.99

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

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Read a poem a day. With Every Day Poems, you get a year of happy mornings for just $5.99.

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Operation: Poetry Dare

By Nancy Franson 97 Comments

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Follow the journey of Nancy Franson, the mildly poetry-avoidant subject of a poem-a-day experiment.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.

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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.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

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Painting with tea, a tribute to Pride and Prejudice, the most “bank-clerky of all bank clerks. Seth Haines has the best in poetry in this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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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 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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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Haiku chains, Haiku Brew, haiku reflections on a community street. Will Willingham has a haiku-ridden edition of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Repurposing books into purses, the presidents’ favorite poetry, and why you need a contrarian in your life. Will Willingham has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 9 Comments

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Picasso scratch-off, Hurricane Sandy, and the mother of all field trips — Seth Haines has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Famous artwork as Halloween costumes, the future of the short storyteller, and a guy typing poetry on the street. All this and a little more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 4 Comments

A $130 million art heist, growing a beard like Walt Whitman, and Poe’s Raven teaches poetry at home. Seth Haines has this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Silver Forks

1 Art This afternoon while I sipped hot rooibos from a fancy gold-rimmed tea cup (Get on the bus, Gus. All the cool Tweetspeak kids are drinking tea now.), I thought to myself, “Gee, I wonder where I could get a complete listing of the 100 most iconic artworks of the last five years.” Imagine […]

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 1 Comment

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art Brian Hirschy is a good friend and a grand photographer. Last weekend we were discussing the state of photography and how the iPhone has become a useful tool in the photographer’s gear bag. With its high resolution capabilities and the development of […]

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THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 POETIC PICKS

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art In case you haven’t heard, which is to say in case you live under a rock, the iPhone 5 launched yesterday. Apple’s newest version of their popular telephone/personal computing device is reportedly thinner, lighter, and at twenty times as awesome as […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

1 Art Whatever you might think about a certain television network’s coverage of the London Olympic games, it’s been outright brilliant next to history’s treatment of art as an Olympic sport. Art competitions were a part of the games in the early twentieth century, until they fell apart over distinguishing amateur from professional. Judges couldn’t […]

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