Poetry category: 46548 books
by Nerissa Marie
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
I Still Love You, is a poetry book created with the intention that you may adventure within to find happiness, and discover the confidence and courage to shine bright! This glorious poetry inspires inner strength, compassion and courage.
This is a magical poetry book filled with enchanting...
Poetry Book - Abyss of Bliss (Love Poems About Life, Poems About Love, Inspirational Poems, Friendship Poems, Romantic Poems, I love You Poems, Poetry Collection, Inspirational Quotes, Poetry Books)
Abyss of Bliss (Love Poems About Life, Poems About Love, Inspirational Poems, Friendship Poems, Romantic Poems, I love You Poems, Poetry Collection, Inspirational Quotes, Poetry Books)
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Abyss of Bliss is a poetry book exploring the purpose of life. This spellbinding poetry, goes beyond emotion, beyond form, beyond belief and explores the resounding truth of peace, love and wellbeing hidden in the heart. Beautiful soul healing love poems that reach into the depths of the self.
Seek...
by Kim Staflund
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
You’ve written some poetry. Maybe you’ve written pages and pages of poetry that is stuffed away in a drawer in your favourite writing desk or stored in a folder on your computer, and you’re wondering what to do with it all. How do you publish poetry? How do you sell it?
You may be thinking...
Poetry as Spiritual Practice
Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the Introduction
Poetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a...
Poetry's Afterlife
Verse in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire...
by Matthew Zapruder
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues...
Stage a Poetry Slam
Creating Performance Poetry Events-Insider Tips, Backstage Advice, and Lots of Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
How can I run my own slam?
For groups large and small, from single events to recurring programs, Stage a Poetry Slam explains the easy way to make your slams a success.
Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters - people in charge of organizing...
American Poetry in Performance
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains...
by The Poetry Center, John Timpane
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Get expert tips on writing your own poems
Understand and appreciate the pleasures of poetry
Can't tell the difference between an iamb and a trochee? Don't worry! This friendly guide demystifies all that complicated jargon and explains how to truly enjoy poetry. The authors walk you through...
Who Reads Poetry
50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has...
You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence
Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is...
by L.L. Barkat
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Poetry is for life, not for ivory towers.
At Tweetspeak Poetry, it has been our delight to bring poetry to people, right where they are. To bring together established poets and poets taking first steps. And to invite those who thought they could never be a part of poetry to dip in without fear.
Because...
by Erik Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. So thinkers from Plato onwards have claimed; and even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it is still commonly considered the most seductive of all forms of art. But why should this be? What are the connections...