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AND IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE NOW, SCARRIET OR HARRIET?

We hadn’t checked it out since New Years, so what a shock to find it simply hadn’t moved on at all — same shops, same chaps, same figures. Yes, there’s Christopher Woodman’s na… more →

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"The field as iridescent as a Renaissance heaven"

rosemaryandreadingglasses wrote 2 days ago: I just downloaded The Poetry Foundation’s app for iPhone, and friends, it is swanky. I lack t … more →

Tags: Rosemary & Reading Glasses, Poem of the week, Poetry, David St. John, May, spring weather, Poetry App

Gun Lit: My Mother Contemplating Her Gun

barbaraeldredge wrote 1 week ago: Illustration by Pearson Scott Foresman Today’s Poem of the Day from the Poetry Foundation has … more →

Tags: Power Of Objects, Gun Lit, Nick Flynn, objects with agency, Poem, Suicide

Joan Mitchell at The Poetry Foundation

ionbehar wrote 1 week ago: “Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry” at the Poetry Foundation, is both elegant and sober. It is perhap … more →

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Joan Mitchell at The Poetry Foundation

ionbehar wrote 1 week ago: “Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry” at the Poetry Foundation, is elegant and sober. It is perhaps too … more →

Tags: Chicago, Joan Mitchell, Poetry and Painting

Never Give Up — 16 comments

Jon Jefferson wrote 1 week ago: Get ready for this one. Today we will be going on a ride through a few different places. It is time … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Overcoming Challenges, A.E. Stalling, Greek proverbs, Larry Smith, TED Talks, winston churchill

#9: Pay Attention (No, Seriously— Pay Attention.)

barbaravaranka wrote 2 weeks ago: Recently I was driving around Kansas City when Ted Kooser’s “Depression Glass” cam … more →

Tags: The Editor's Blog, writing, Steps to Becoming a Rockstar Writer, Poetry, Ted Kooser, Podcasts

One Day — 2 comments

lisathorpeartist wrote 2 weeks ago: “Til the Cows Come Home” drawn on my iPad One day – a whole unit neatly marked by … more →

Tags: Spiritual, Inspiration, Art, Poetry, HOPE, Robert Creele, one day...

Conceptual poetry. Heavy stuff, man.

Adlestrop wrote 3 weeks ago: What does conceptual poetry have to do with conceptual poetry? Is conceptual poetry conceptual poetr … more →

Tags: Literature, Poems, poets and poetry, Culture, conceptual poetry

Iowa School for the Deaf junior wins state Poetry Out Loud competition — 1 comment

Lexington School and Center for the Deaf wrote 1 month ago: Dakota Meyer, a junior at Iowa School for the Deaf (ISD) in Council Bluffs, was named the winner of … more →

Tags: National Deaf News, deaf, hard of hearing, ASL, American Sign Language, sign language, washington dc, Iowa, Dakota Meyer