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Poets and Poems: Siân Killingsworth and “Hiraeth”

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Cherry blossoms Killingsworth

In “Hiraeth: Poems,” Siân Killingsworth looks at how we remember people and events and how we never can go home again.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Fairytales, Literary Tour, Memory, Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work Day, poetry reviews, Poets, work poems

Poets and Poems: Dana Gioia and “Meet Me at the Lighthouse”

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Lighthouse Dana Gioia

“Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” the new poetry collection by Dana Gioia, explores memory, family, and remembering what’s important.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, California, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Laura Mullen and “After I Was Dead”

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Shell on beach Laura Mullen

Finding “After I Was Dead: Poems” by Laura Mullen in a university bookstore reinvents a personal history and stokes memories of 50 years ago.

Filed Under: article, Books, Memory, Poems, poetry, Poets

Poets and Poems: Andrea Potos and “Her Joy Becomes”

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Ice on twig Andrea Potos Her joy Becomes

In “Her Joy Becomes,” poet Andrea Potos invites the reader into her mind and her heart to experience what her mother meant to her.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Grief Poems, joy poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Thomas Colquith and ‘Let Our Memories Escape’

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Trolltunga Norway misty mountains

“Let Our Memories Escape” by poet Thomas Colquith demonstrates that time is the theme running through all aspects of our lives.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Time Poems

Poets and Poems: Charles Hughes and “The Evening Sky”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

The poetry of “The Evening Sky” by Charles Hughes speaks to the mortality of life and focusing on what truly matters.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry Prompt: What a Memory Is

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What is a memory? A 96-year-old woman and a small boy are searching for the answer. Author Callie Feyen searches for poetry in what they find.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Include a Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt about the power of metaphor. Especially when the ocean is involved.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Swimming in Sand

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a poetry prompt about swimming in sand, drawn from memories of several trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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Poets and Poems: Matt Duggan and “The Kingdom”

By Glynn Young Leave a Comment

“The Kingdom,” the new chapbook by poet Matt Duggan, returns to what’s past, leaving you wondering if the past never really was.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Memory, Poems, poetry, Poets

Poets and Poems: David Bottoms and “Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Tulip field David Bottoms

The poems of “Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch” by David Bottoms reach back to the people and stories that shape our minds and hearts.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Family Poems, Family Ties, Memory, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry Prompt: Come Back To Your Heart (Map)

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What Do You Hold In Your Heart?

Looking for ways to tap into your memories and turn them into stories or poems? Try heart mapping, a creative exercise in exploring what you hold close.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry prompt, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Pod Club: Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Memory and Forgetting penninsula on the sea

We are discussing Radiolab’s podcast “Memory and Forgetting” and exploring what it is to remember, what it is to forget, and how both of those processes can be altered.

Filed Under: Blog, Memory, Pod Club

Pod Club Announcement: Listen with us to Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Podcast Radiolab Memories

Join us for our next Pod Club discussion over Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting” and discuss how memories are formed, erased and altered.

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Finding Jack Gilbert and “Refusing Heaven” in a Bookstore

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Tree and sky Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven

Finding “Refusing Heaven” by Jack Gilbert in a Chicago-area bookstore leads to a consideration of what matters in these lives we live.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, bookseller, Jack Gilbert, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Committing Prufrock: The Path to Frost

By Sandra Heska King 7 Comments

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Memorizing The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock took Sandra Heska King on the road not taken (or, at least less frequently taken) and to memorization of Robert Frost as well.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, Robert Frost

Poets and Poems: Dave Malone and “You Know the Ones”

By Glynn Young 17 Comments

Wall textures You Know the Ones Dave Malone

Dave Malone may write about his beloved Missouri Ozarks, but the poems he writes are universal, and about family, friends, and geography.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Geography Love, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Bernard O’Donoghue and “The Seasons of Cullen Church”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Reeds in light Bernard O'Donoghue

“The Seasons of Cullen Church” by Bernard O’Donoghue is moving and soul-searching, an exploration of the memories that make a life.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Britain, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

The Circus: The Last Hurrah of Childhood

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

The circus was spectacular, and it was meant to be. Everything seemed oversized – the elephants, the horses, even the tiny car filled with an impossible number of clowns.

Filed Under: Blog, Childhood Poems, Circus & Carnival

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Institutional Memory

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Institutional Memory

With access to technology, the Internet and new tools, organizations have come to believe institutional memory is not important. They’re wrong.

Filed Under: Door Photos, Emily Dickinson, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

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