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The Writing Life: How to Be a Famous Author
The writing life should be simpler than this, right? No, it’s not easy, and it never will be. Because we want to be famous. And that’s good, and not.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Check out our Top 10 poetic picks this week, with Matthew Kreider showing the way.
The Unofficially Official List of Top Poetry Sites
When was the last time you saw a list for The Top Poetry Sites? Now it exists, right here.
Journey Into Poetry: Charity Singleton Craig
I have to have poetry in regular doses or the other writing I’m doing begins to suffer.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Finding the best in poetry and poetic endeavors.
Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
Others far wiser than I have discovered poetry’s needful but long overlooked place in business
The Hearing of the Sea: Thoughts on A Broken Thing
When I come across a book as provocative as A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, I know I will recommend it, but the question is… to whom
Journey Into Poetry: Will Willingham
Here at T. S. Poetry, nothing could make us happier than when a person discovers poems.
Resolving the Dandelion Poet
As a poem begins to take form, the poet walks a fine line of crafting and allowing the poem to craft itself.
Writing the Priest, Part 1
Given a priest as central character, those lyrics hold double meaning, making your story line seem especially promising for its inherent tensions
A Top 10 Poetry Christmas List
What’s on your poetry Christmas list?
I See You in There: the Villanelle
Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange
Terrified of Sexy Pie
Perhaps you didn’t know this about me? That I have a thing for love poems?
Imaginary Logic By Rodney Jones
I hadn’t read Rodney Jones’s previous books of poetry (this one is his ninth), but I will now that I’ve read Imaginary Logic: Poems. It a collection full of the familiar and the everyday but described in unexpected and precise ways, and with an eye that is focused and accurate. The poems cover a wide […]
Tomaz Salamun’s “The Blue Tower: Poems”
Born in Croatia and raised in Slovenia, Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun has published 30 collections of poetry in his native language. His poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages, and he’s had nine collection published in English. The Blue Tower: Poems is the tenth in English, and translated with the author by Michael […]
Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”
From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]
What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 1
The first step towards falling in love, of course, is the cultivation of friendship. And so I have to convince my students that poetry—and the poets who write them—are friends worth getting to know.
Where to Find Words
Is Twitter really mindless for the writer?
Taking Poetry from the Young
Where does poetry come from? Anywhere we allow ourselves to find it.