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Earth Song Book Club: The Wild Places

By Rebecca D. Martin 11 Comments

yellow buds in spring trees

In this week’s Earth Song book club, Rebecca Martin considers the power of poems to transport the reader to another place, whether the woodlands or the wilds.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Earth Song, Ecopoetry, Nature Poems, Patron Only, Tree Poems

Poet Laura: On Independence Day I Found a Butterfly

By Laura Boggess 4 Comments

row of colorful pinwheels in tokyo

The butterfly heralds the arrival of summer and invites childlike wonder. Our Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, shares a butterfly story and three butterfly poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Butterfly Poems, Poet Laura, William Wordsworth

It Was a Marvelous Year: “The Making of Poetry” by Adam Nicholson

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In “The Making of Poetry,” Adam Nicolson tells the story of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797-98, when they created some of the greatest poetry written in the English language.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Literary Analysis, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

A Ritual to Read to Each Other: Reading Classics

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Thursday Next

Join author Megan Willome as she reads classics in the new column, A Ritual to Read to Each Other. What beloved book or poem do you want to protect?

Filed Under: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, A Story in Every Soul, Classic Books, William Wordsworth

By Heart: “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” + New Poetry Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

couch

Join author Megan Willome as she learns Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” By Heart and considers authorship.

Filed Under: Blog, By Heart, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, Poets

A Small Volume of Essays, A Larger World of Poetry

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Monument Poetry Essays

A book of essays first published in 1916 provides a window into poetry and its practitioners, as well as how poetry was taught in classrooms.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Essays, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, Poets, William Wordsworth

Art and Poetry: “A Wider Landscape” by Donald Wilkinson

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Water and mountains A Wider Landscape

The paintings of artist Donald Wilkinson evoke the landscape and poetry of William Wordsworth, so much so that landscape and poetry become one.

Filed Under: Art, book reviews, Books, Britain, poetry, Poets, William Wordsworth

“Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey” by Frances Wilson

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Dry ice and water Thomas De Quincey

“Guilty Thing: The Life of Thomas De Quincey” by Frances Wilson details the life of the writer who had, and still has, a major influence on literature.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Essays

William Wordsworth: “The Prelude” and the Poetry of Revision

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Lights in Field William Wordsworth

Some 24 manuscripts, dated from 1798 to 1839, exist for “The Prelude, ” the autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth; they show the poetry of revision.

Filed Under: Blog, Britain, English Teaching, poetry, Poets, William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth and the Language of the Common Man

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Rickety pier into lake William Wordsworth

Influenced by the American and French revolutions, William Wordsworth wrote poetry that used common language and spoke to feelings and imagination.

Filed Under: Blog, Britain, Poems, poetry, Poets, William Wordsworth

Take Your Poet to Work Day: On Location

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Leaning Tower of Pisa with Hughes Plath Heaney Frost Barrett Brown for Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Whether you’re going to work, to the beach or to another great destination today, take along your favorite poet.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry teaching resources, 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

Top 10 Poems with Make-or-Break Titles

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

top ten poem titles

Your poem title sets the tone. We show how changing a title can create an entirely different poem. Plus 9 poems with make-or-break titles!

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