What can children’s play teach you about how to be a writer? It can teach you how to pretend, which maybe a step in your writing journey.
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Literary Tours: Poets House, New York City
Poets House is a place of reclamation, of your past and of your future.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Poetry as diplomacy, waiting for tattoos, unsplitting infinitives and the poetry of labor. all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
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!
Dr. Seuss: Embracing the Creatures Within
What would you do if you were voted Least Likely to Succeed? This is what Dr. Suess did.
The Little House on the Prairie is Still There
A visit to the scene of Little House on the Prairie reminds us that, sometimes, it’s the telling of a story that makes it extraordinary.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
1 Art For a second, I thought I was looking at one of those excruciating grade school art projects where we cut squares of crêpe paper, wrapped them around our fingertips, dipped into Elmer’s glue and then stuck them down with 3, 762 other tiny pieces of colored crêpe paper on a tag board cut-out to make […]
August Rain: Morose Mother Goose
Nursery rhymes are often our first introductions to poetry. You’d be hard-pressed to find a youngster who was unaware of Jack’s broken crown, the shoe-dwelling woman with more children than the Duggars, or everyone’s favorite fall-on-your-bum game, “ring around the rosie.” But despite the sing-song rhythms and lyrical use of end rhyme, many of Mother […]
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art I’ve been reading Emily Dickinson’s poetry to my kids. I love her simple, spare, evocative verse. So I was captivated by The Little White House Project, brain child and love labor of a 17-year-old boy. The 5-acre art installation is […]
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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 […]
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.
Meet Our Team
L.L. Barkat, Creator, Tweetspeak Poetry, T. S. Poetry Press, Every Day Poems, and Poetic Earth Month I’m a former educator who believes in the heart of a teacher and the soul of a student, and I’m currently giving my own heart and soul to bringing beauty and joy to the education process through the many […]