Tag: poetry
It’s the spook-spookiest time of the year! Celebrate all-things Halloween literary style with these thirteen creepy poems! 1. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the …
Sara Deeter
May 19, 2017
Adult, Autobiography, Book Lists, Classics, Fantasy, Feminism, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Music, Poetry, Romance, Women, Young Adult
GaGa, ooh la la!! If I were to enter an alternate universe and actually have the chance to MEET LADY GAGA (*screams internally*), the inner book nerd in me …
Previously unseen letters from Sylvia Plath to her friend and former therapist give a personal account of the domestic abuse she experienced at the hands of her husband and …
If you’ve never been into poetry, the idea of picking it up can be daunting. Where do you even start? Should you go to the beginning, bury yourself in …
Christianna Marks
April 14, 2017
African American, Book Lists, Contemporary, Family, Free-Verse, Humor, Mental Health, Middle Grade, Poetry, Relationships, Romance, Young Adult
They say that poetry is good for the soul, and if you ask me, whoever ‘they’ are is right. This month is National Poetry Month, so what better way …
A majority of us can remember some of our most cherished childhood stories. Most of these taught us lessons in friendship, caring, and other moral values. The Giving Tree by Shel …
On March 13, 1852, The New York Times published a small advertisement on Page 3 for an anonymously written serial tale that would begin the next day in a rival …
What’s better than one amazing author? Two amazing authors, of course! Especially when those authors are married to each other and simultaneously producing great works of literature while being …
Christianna Marks
February 10, 2017
Book Lists, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Human Interest, Literary Quotes, Maya Angelou, Relationships, Romance, Virginia Woolf
Love. It’s a wonderful, delightful thing, and so many authors and poets have used the emotion to drive their plots. You know what that means for us? It means …
Shakespeare. Some hate him, some love him, but both agree that he is easily one of the most well-known playwrights in the world of literature. Hollywood also happens to …
There’s a little country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part-way between Hawaii and Australia, seven degrees north of the equator. Few have ever heard about the tiny …
Let’s hear it for poetry! There’s haikus, limericks, sonnets, verses, odes, ballads, and even riddles. Poetry is multi-functional, multifaceted, and even multifarious. There are so many different forms, features, …
Why do art and imagination continue to be taxed? Way too many writing competitions require applicants to submit entry fees–admittedly, some contests are legitimate, but many others turn out to be …
Heads up, writers! No matter how unusual your particular skillset or interests are, there is an upcoming writing competition to suit you. Poetry, flash fiction, essays, short stories–they’re all …
Lacey Kupfer Wulf
January 3, 2017
Author Spotlight, Children, Classics, Family, Faves, Human Interest, Humor, Poetry, Reading, Shel Silverstein
Other than The Giving Tree and a few of his poems that are blatantly serious, anyone can tell that Shel Silverstein writes silly poems from just the covers of …
Tips and advice only go so far if you want to be a writer. At a certain point, you have to sit down and write, but when you’re utterly …
Amber Tamblyn is no stranger to dark, heavy subject matter. In response to our president-elect Donald Trump’s lewd, horrendous recorded conversation about women, she posted her own assault story …
Ah, the classics! Love them or hate them, these are books that have stood the test of time and endured for generations. It turns out, though, that it’s a …
“The flower shop man dreams of happiness for the flowers he sold.” The poems of Taisho era writer Misuzu Kaneko (née Teru, 1903-1930) have become the subject of a …
For Small Press Distribution (“the nation’s only non-profit distributor”), indie bookstores are a lifeline. One of these in particular, Seattle’s Open Books, has been going for over 20 years, …
