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Poetry and World War I: It Wasn’t Only England

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Sunset World War I Poetry

“Everything to Nothing” by Geert Buelens provides a fascinating look into the breadth and depth of the role poetry played in World War I.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Poems, Poets, war poems

Persecuted Poets: Hearing the Voices Beyond Our Borders

By Maureen Doallas 17 Comments

Voices Beyond Our Borders Persecuted Poets

Now, perhaps more than ever, it’s important to make room in our literary conversations for those poets whose voices were, or have been, or are still silenced because they dared to be our lanterns.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Poets, Politics

Committing Prufrock: A New Poetry Dare

By Sandra Heska King 41 Comments

Poetry Dare Committing Prufrock - two white northern gannet

Sandra Heska King gets nabbed while under cover in the poet’s protection program and agrees to commit Prufrock in the latest Poetry Dare scheme.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

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

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Just Want to Have Pun

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Wright Longfellow Brown at Sydney Opera House

We celebrated the fourth annual Take Your Poet to Work Day yesterday and discovered that, in many cases, our Poets Just Want to Have Pun.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming: Here’s Our Free Coloring Book!

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Coloring Book Cover

Celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day with our free poets coloring book, newly updated for 2016, and let your poet explore your workplace.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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

British Poetry, British Poets, and Brexit

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Can you imagine NBC or Fox holding a vote on America’s favorite poets? The British, however, take their poetry seriously and news coverage of Brexit is no exception.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Poems, poetry, poetry news, Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Judith Wright

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Judith Wright cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Australian poet and activist Judith Wright.

Filed Under: Australian Poets, Blog, Judith Wright, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Elizabeth Barrett Browning featured

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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Teaching Resources, love poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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

Coloring Page Poems: A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman Coloring Page Poem

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider.”

Filed Under: Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Walt Whitman

From Delphi to Camden: James Whitcomb Riley

By Charity Singleton Craig 9 Comments

James Whitcomb Riley From Dephi to Camden

Charity Singleton Craig reflects on following the ghost of James Whitcomb Riley through Hoosier country.

Filed Under: Blog, Indiana Tour, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, Regional Tour, Train poems

Take Your Poet to Work: Anna Akhmatova

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Anna Akhmatova Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 15. This week, we add Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova to our collection.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Poetic Voices: Jessica Goodfellow and Michalle Gould

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Jessica Goodfellow tackles the poetry of natural elements, while Michalle Gould consider the artistic imagination engaging the meaning of death.

Filed Under: book reviews, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Daniel Bowman Jr.’s “A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Poets and Poems Daniel Bowman

“A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country” by Daniel Bowman Jr.is a beautiful collection, poems of quiet, reflection, and memory.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, article, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

An Evening with Billy Collins

By Glynn Young 24 Comments

Poet Billy Collins read from his new volume, “Aimless Love, ” in St. Louis County, Missouri on Nov. 1; more than 800 people came for an intimate evening.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Dog Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

September Beats: Denise Levertov

By Glynn Young 15 Comments

Beat Poets Denise Levertov

Poet Denise Levertov is associated with the Beat Poets, but she transcended the Beats to write about war, environment, faith, and the whole realm of life.

Filed Under: article, Beat Poets, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

Top 10 Best Laundry Poems

By Will Willingham 48 Comments

laundry poems

Take a break from your laundry hanging, or ironing, or presoaking, and enjoy this neatly folded basket of laundry poems, plus a giveaway of Scratch Magazine.

Filed Under: Blog, Laundry Poems, Poems, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work Day: It’s About Access (and Ice Cream)

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

take your poet to work day ice cream truck

At its heart, like the ice cream truck peddling frozen treats on a stick, Take Your Poet to Work Day is about access. Enjoy some highlights from our annual celebration.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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