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“Hamnet”: Visualizing What Inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Deer Family Hamnet Chakrabarti

The novel and play “Hamnet” suggest that Shakespeare may have memorialized his son, who died in 1596, in the play “Hamlet.”

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Grief Poems, Hamlet, Shakespeare

Reading the 1913 Edition of ‘Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare’

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Crete old village house

To read “Cassell’s Illustrated Shakespeare” is to rediscover the great playwright and step into a time when families read Shakespeare.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Dave Malone, Shakespeare

Generosity with Self: When You’re In The Wrong Story

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Tuscany landscape for Henry VI & Generosity

Callie Feyen reflects on Henry VI and encourages Winchester to be generous enough with himself to leave when he’s in the wrong story.

Filed Under: Blog, Generous, Shakespeare

By Heart: “Come, Night” + New Thomas Hardy Challenge

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

Romeo and Juliet

Join author Megan Willome as she learns William Shakespeare’s ‘Come, Night’ from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ By Heart while savoring this season of extra night.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Poems, poetry, Shakespeare

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

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 Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606″

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Shakespeare in Stone The Year of Lear

“The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606” by James Shapiro is a masterful re-creation of a critical year in the life of William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Classic Plays, King Lear, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files

Top 10 Fall Poems

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top 10 Fall Poems

Welcome Autumn (and make it last a little longer) with this great collection of Fall poems from Shakespeare to Keats to Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Fall Poems, Poems

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

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

Shakespeare and Company: Playing the Fool Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 28 Comments

Shakespeare_and_Company_Playing_the_Fool

This week’s poetry prompt is for Fools. Put on your Jester hat and join us for some poetic and witty commentary in the style of the Shakespearean Fool.

Filed Under: Ballad Poems, Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Take Your Poet to Work: William Shakespeare

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

William Shakespeare

We kick off the release of our 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poets collection with the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

10 Fun Shakespeare Resources Online

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shakespeare Resources

In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, enjoy this fun collection of Shakespeare resources from around the web.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, writer's group resources

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 3 Comments

The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 13 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art I love mash-ups! Today I have two: The Music and Art Mashup I am one of the least musical people I know. I can’t read music, and I can’t carry a tune—in a bucket or otherwise. But I found a […]

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