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Top 10 Best Car and Truck Poems

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Car and Truck Poems luigi and guido pixar cartoon cars

Cars mean more than transportation or the sum of their parts. They are image, and the memories we make in them. Here are 10 best car and truck poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Car Poems, Truck Poems

Top 10 Dip into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Dip into Poetry - silhouette walking on beach

We enjoy a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to dip into poetry with us. Check our our favorite 10 lines from the last few months.

Filed Under: Blog, Dip into Poetry, Every Day Poems, Twitter poetry

Top 10 Best Science Poems

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Top 10 Science Poems - bottle at Heidleberg Apothacary Museum

Is it possible that without science there might be no poetry? Or could the opposite be true? Test the hypothesis with 10 best science poems.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work, Science Poems

Coloring Page Poems: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Longfellow The Tide Rises coloring page - boat by seaside

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.”

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, Sea Poems

Top 10 Best Tea Poems

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Tea Poems - gold rimmed elegant teacup

Tea and poetry go together like sand and surf, like wine and cheese, like Bogey and Bacall. Or is it the other way around? Enjoy these 10 best tea poems…

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Tea, Tea Poems

Take Your Poet to Work: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow cover

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. For our final addition to our poet collection for 2016, meet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Brontë

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Emily Brontë cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Emily Brontë.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Brontë, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Top 10 Best Garden Poems

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Top 10 Garden poems - red maple leaf in green ferns

While you wait for your flowers to bloom and your garden to produce its fruit, enjoy this collection of 10 great garden poems.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, Blog, Flower Poems, Garden Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: William Wordsworth

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - William Wordsworth Featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! We kick off the release of this year’s poet collection with English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

Filed Under: Blog, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, William Wordsworth

Be Our Poetry Buddy: “Moonrise” by D. H. Lawrence

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

D. H. Lawrence Moonrise

Extend the Joy of Poetry by being our Poetry Buddy. This week, we’re reading “Moonrise” by D. H. Lawrence together. Join us?

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, The Joy of Poetry

Be Our Poetry Buddy: Amy Lowell’s “White Currants”

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Be Our Poetry Buddy sunflower closeup

Extend the Joy of Poetry by being our Poetry Buddy. This week, we’re reading Amy Lowell’s “White Currants” together. Join us?

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, poem a day, Poems, poetry

The Joy of Poetry: Will You Be Our Poetry Buddy?

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Be Our Poetry Buddy white flowers

We’re extending The Joy of Poetry Book Club comment box with a group Poetry Buddy experience reading poems together. Join us. 🙂

Filed Under: book club, Every Day Poems, poem a day, Poems, poetry

The Joy of Poetry Book Club: In Your Dreams

By Will Willingham 57 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Book club pink rose

Like Kipling’s lullaby, a poem that acknowledges the terrors of the night can help disarm them. Our discussion of Megan Willome’s The Joy of Poetry continues, with a look at poetry and dreams.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Dream Poems, poetry, The Joy of Poetry

Poetic Voices: Kelly Hansen Maher and Heather Derr-Smith

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

woman in empty warehouse poetic voices

Poets Kelly Hansen Maher and Heather Derr-Smith write about lives as women, one on miscarriages and the other on relationships.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Woman Poems

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Top 10 Dip Into Poetry Lines lotus leaf on water

We enjoy a daily sharing over Every Day Poems on Twitter, inviting you to dip into poetry with us. Check out our favorite 10 lines from the last few months.

Filed Under: Blog, Dip into Poetry, poetry, Twitter poetry

The Joy of Poetry Book Club: Stick With Poetry

By Will Willingham 72 Comments

The joy of Poetry Book Club yellow rose with blue flowers

Megan Willome says she’d tell her 13-year-old self to stick with poetry. Tell us about your 13-year-old self in our Joy of Poetry book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, The Joy of Poetry, writer's group resources

2016 Pulitzer Prize: “Ozone Journal” by Peter Balakian

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Silver grass Ozone Journal

“Ozone Journal’ by Peter Balakian, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, challenges, provokes, and helps us to see in a different light.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Books, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry reviews

Top 10 Pocket Poets and Their Poems

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poem in Your Pocket day man with plaid shirt and pocket poets

It’s Poem in Your Pocket Day. What better way to celebrate than with one of these 10 great pocket poets (and their poems) in your pocket.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry

The Joy of Poem on Your Pillow Day

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Poem on Your Pillow Day yellow rose on white pillow

Part of the joy of poetry is the delight of surprise, and what better surprise than to find a poem on your pillow. Poem on Your Pillow Day is coming May 3.

Filed Under: Blog, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry

Top 10 Best Poems About Wood

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poems About Wood rough fence post with wire

How many poems would a woodchuck write if a woodchuck could write poems? We have ten great poems about wood to make any woodchuck smile.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Tree Poems

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