As National Poetry Month continues, we have a new desktop wallpaper for you today featuring this week’s featured poet Allen Ginsberg and his famous poem, "Howl." Click to view full-size, then right-click to save:
As National Poetry Month continues, we have a new desktop wallpaper for you today featuring this week’s featured poet Allen Ginsberg and his famous poem, "Howl." Click to view full-size, then right-click to save:
We celebrated the first two weeks of National Poetry Month by featuring the well-known poets T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath. This week, we honed in on Allen Ginsberg. Here's a quick wrap-up of everything Ginsberg: Featured Poet: Allen Ginsberg Featured Collection: Selected Poems: 1947-1995 Featured Poem: "A Supermarket in California" Creative Writing Prompt: Ginsberg's Ends... Continue Reading →
Publishers Weekly just released its top books of 2009 and, even though she didn't actually release any new books in 2009, Stephenie Meyer was STILL on top, selling roughly 26.5 million copies (and that doesn't even include The Host.) The other big winner was Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which sold... Continue Reading →
Creative Writing Prompt #22 Who? What? Where? Why? Write a poem composed entirely of directions. "Directions" can be broadly interpreted to mean anything from Mapquest directions to a recipe, a class project description or how to put together a piece of furniture. Don't take this too literally. How can you explore the various possibilities of... Continue Reading →
Back in the days of artists and vagrants, Parisians used to get together in cafes, sip on some absinthe, and write about all manner of things in order to create an Exquisite Corpse poem. Have you contributed to Novel Novice's Exquisite Corpse collaboration yet? Get all the details here to lay down your lines. See... Continue Reading →
National Poem In Your Pocket Day is a traditional part of the National Poetry Month celebration! Here's the scoop: choose a poem that you love, then carry it with you in your pocket (or purse, or wallet, or backpack, or notebook) to share with friends, family, teachers, or coworkers on April 29. Or just to... Continue Reading →
This week we're focusing on poet Allen Ginsberg. So, naturally, we offer up a Ginsberg-inspired creative writing prompt to get you in a beatnik, meditative, "chanty" state of mind. Note that Ginsberg was often wrapped up in the idea of "widening the area of consciousness." He did not shy away from radical elements but rather... Continue Reading →
Today we're featuring the book trailer for I Heart You, You Haunt Me by our April Book of the Month author Lisa Schroeder:
Today we're featuring the book trailer for I Heart You, You Haunt Me by our April Book of the Month author Lisa Schroeder:
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