Welcome to our Poetry Classroom. This week we’re discussing luxurious towels. Or are we?
Take Your Poet to Work: The Haiku Masters
Our first poet collection releases for Take Your Poet to Work Day: The Haiku Masters (Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa)
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!
Poetry Classroom: After
Want a great poetry discussion? Start with simple breathing.
Take Your Poet to Work: Pablo Neruda
Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring poet Pablo Neruda.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Apps that analyze your writing voice, your poetry, your reading preferences. It’s all in the math and science of This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Wheat Berries and Writing
Megan Willome talks about writing fiction and about wheat berries, how after you grind them to smithereens, you can make the most amazing whole wheat bread.
Journey into Poetry: Marjorie Maddox
Marjorie Maddox was always a bookworm—as a child reading in the branches of trees, upside down on a couch, and, of course, in bed with a flashlight. Follow her Journey into Poetry.
Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Interview
I was part of an interview team, talking individually with four candidates for a communication research job. Human Resources had provided us with a set of “behavioral interview” questions, which meant we would be asking things like “What’s the biggest failure you’ve ever experienced?” and “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” We followed […]
Poetry Classroom: Meteorology
Welcome to our poetry classroom with Marjorie Maddox Hafer. Today we’re discussing the relief in a storm.
“Some Kiss We Want”, by Rumi, Video by Daniel Austin Sperry
Rumi: Some Kiss We Want. Spoken word poetry and cello.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Poetry Review: The Submerged Depths of Lapse Americana
A review of Lapse Americana: Poems by Benjamin Myers, a poetry volume focused on memory, childhood and understanding.
Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January
Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.
Poetry Comics: The Poetry Industry
Did you know? The Poetry Industry has its own park.
The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)
Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Celebrities set in Renaissance masterpieces, poetry as therapy, poetic computation, trading words for images. It’s a new week of our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Take Your Poet to Work Day
Take Your Poet to Work Day. Why should kids have all the fun? Your poet wants to go to work with you too.
Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 3
Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”
Poetry Classroom: Directions
Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.