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Naomi Shihab Nye: Young People’s Poet Laureate

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye

Author Megan Willome takes a trip to the library with Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: Childhood Poems, children, Children's Activities, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

tattoo raspberry top ten poetry picks

Poetry as diplomacy, waiting for tattoos, unsplitting infinitives and the poetry of labor. all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Tattoo Poems, Top 10 Poetic Picks

A Poetry Dare for Will Oldham, the Anti-Poetry Guy

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

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Will Oldham’s June 1, 2012 column in Poetry magazine from the Poetry Foundation has sparked a lot of controversy. It’s actually pretty poetic.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems about poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare

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.

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

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Efrat Ben Zur and her new album, what’s Emily Dickinson got to do with it, our favorite writers. It’s this month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks!

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 13 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art Is nothing left sacred? Evidently an elderly townswoman in Spain failed to ask this question before attempting to “touch up” a nineteenth century fresco of Christ, the “ecce homo.” Painted by famous Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez in the sanctuary of […]

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Cool Poetry Resources

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Theron Kennedy at Inside Theron’s Head 2.0 and Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper found two cool online poetry resources. Kennedy tweeted a link to 32 Poems, which is sharing 215 favorite poetry books by 43 poets in 30 days. 32 Poems borrowed the idea from someone else, and adapted it for National Poetry Month. […]

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