Rob Carney presents his readers with a poem entitled “Poetic Justice” to reflect on the recent political environment in his November blog post for his series Old Roads, New Stories: A Blog Series on Terrain.org. This blog post includes an audio recording of Carney performing this politics-meets-history-meets-geography-meets-myth poem. I’ve always been intrigued […]
Albany Poetry Workshop’s online classroom provides “five exercises that we hope will inspire, cajole, and tease you into writing new work.” The exercises themes include: The Five Senses Organic Metaphor Organic Simile Personification Integrated Poem If these five exercises aren’t enough, check out their other sessions, including a Seven-Session […]
And just when you thought you’d never take another internet quiz… Rob Carney presents a way to entertain and inspire his readers in this recent blog post “Take the A) Sex Quiz, B) Personality Test, or C) Quick Break from Busywork” for his series Old Roads, New Stories: A Blog […]
The British Library via Flikr now offers a huge variety and multiple albums to browse through of illustrations and art that are completely public domain and free to use! From beautiful typography, to bazaar illustrations, book covers, cycling, architecture, decorative papers, and so much more–the possibilities are endless. I’m […]
National poetry month is not over yet! Continue the celebration with this lovely downloadable coloring book from tweetspeak “the best in poetry & poetic things.” Indeed. “So what could better, especially with National Poetry Month upon us, than combining adult coloring books and poetry for a fun, enjoyable activity […]
Rob Carney treats us to three poems (with audio!) for his guest blog post up at Terrain.org this month. Previous posts are full of great ideas to get you writing and what’s more inspiring than poems during National Poetry Month! You can view all his blog posts here. Response poetry […]
Sometimes I wonder how it’s possible I could have not seen something for so long! This blog is one of those. Check out what Bonespark is doing for National Poetry Month! Excellent roundups of prompts and favorite poems every day. Special thanks to Erika Dreifus for sharing this […]
The online lit mag Cahoodaloodaling has a new feature called Prasanna's Parrot Picks & Prompts - that highlights recently published poems from Sundress Publications and then suggests a related prompt for each one. Really excellent work by their new staff member Prasanna Surakanti. Click here to view Prasanna's Parrot Picks & Prompts What […]
You can “start off your celebration by reading a selection of poems featured on this year's National Poetry Month poster,” via Poets.org. "A Nameless One" by Margaret Avison "Relax" by Ellen Bass "Design" by Billy Collins "Stuff I probably did and didn't" by Stephanie Gray "The Act of […]
It's not too late to make a plan for poetry month! Whether you want to sign up to write a poem a day or unofficially just plan to crank out some poetry in April, there are plenty of prompts and resources to keep you going strong all month. […]
