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Poetry Prompt: Being a Pilgrim and a Martha Stewart Homemaker
Join Callie Feyen and her journey into a 744 page book from Martha Stewart Homemaker. Then find yourself reflecting on what it means to be a pilgrim who alternately breaks myths and embraces them.
Poet Laura: I Surrender
Writer Dheepa R. Maturi enters a hard period in life, and it strongly blocks her writing. But then she finds a surprising way through. You could, too.
Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée—09: Let Grief Be
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Poetry Prompt: Monarch Butterfly’s Wildflower
Join author Callie Feyen as she explores the Milkweed plant—a wildflower that nourishes some, and can kill others. Then write a poem on virtue and vice.
Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée—08: Graveside
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Top 10 Funny Quotes from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a classic Gothic tale with an evocative setting and a gorgeous telling. It’s also sometimes funny along the way.
Announcing: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Illustrated Edition!
A beautiful new illustrated version of the classic Oscar Wilde story, The Picture of Dorian Gray. From the illustrator of The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel—Sara Barkat!
Poetry Prompt: Monarch Butterfly Sleepy Transformation
Join author Callie Feyen as she contemplates what a monarch butterfly can show us about changing and resting at the same time.
Poet Laura on the Moon
Tonight, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals her poem, commissioned by NASA to be sent to Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Our own Poet Laura, Dheepa R. Maturi, reveals her own poem to Earth’s moon.
Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée—07: Corvid, Covid
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Happy Ideas: Poetry Prompt Series
Take a cue from Mary Syzbist and Duchamp. Put a poem together that contains some unexpected Happy Ideas! (Blue velvet shoes, anyone?)
Poetry Prompt: Sherlock Holmes Day!
Today is Sherlock Holmes Day. What better time to write a poem to the sleuth? Or about him. Or about his associate Watson?
Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 06—Noah’s Crow
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Poetry Prompt: How To Write A French Poem
Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a few French form poems! And play with how to write a French poem for yourself.
Poetry Prompt: Create by Feel
Join author Callie Feyen as she walks with another writer who inspires her to lean in and create by feel in times when it’s hard to know the art you are trying to make.
Happy Birthday, Every Day Poems!
Every Day Poems turns twelve today. A dozen years of poetry love. A dozen years of inspiration. Come write a birthday poem in celebration!
Poet Laura: A Tribute to Laura Barkat—and All the Other “Lauras”
One of the Poet Laura’s tasks each year is to write poems about Lauras. This month, Dheepa R. Maturi pays tribute to the special Lauras who bring light to the world.
Poetry Prompt: Spanish Story—Just a Minute
Join author Callie Feyen as she reads a Spanish-inspired story to children that opens up stories of her own life.
Poems to Listen By: Black Bird Soirée 05—Poet, In Japan Alps
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