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Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Poetry Classroom: Anniversary Coffee

By Marjorie Maddox 18 Comments

Welcome to the poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing Anniversary Coffee. Is it a good cup? Let’s drink up and see.

Poetry Classroom: Life Outside

By Tania Runyan 8 Comments

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan, author of A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight.

That’s Amore: 10 of the Best Love Poems

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

Love’s big day is upon us, and we don’t want you to be without a good love poem, so we’ve gathered up a list of ten of our favorites. Maybe you have another you’d like to share in the comments?

Poetry Classroom: Passionate Shepherd to his Love

By Karen Swallow Prior 5 Comments

Even if you have not read Christopher Marlowe’s famous poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, ” you probably know its poetry anyway. Really.

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)

By Karen Swallow Prior 29 Comments

In this month’s poetry classroom, author and literature professor Karen Swallow Prior will be treating us to a discussion of classic love poetry—beginning with Shakespeare.

Poem: Ghost of Christmas Present

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

A poem for Christmas by L.L. Barkat: Ghost of Christmas Present.

Make Time for Wine and Poetry

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 6 Comments

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.