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25 Picturebooks & Poetry for the Season
Plus a Free download for you and a recommended bookstore to support
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3 Reasons to Read Poetry if You're Writing It
And a list of 25 Christian poets to begin your reading
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How I Self-Published my First Poetry Book During Lockdown
Plus your FREE 12 Point Self-Pub Checklist
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A Sonnet Story, Curated Poetry Lists & New Poem
K.C. Ireton's 'A Yellow Wood,' 'Below the Brightness,' poetry by Steven Searcy and a Substackaversary
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Ten Female Faith Poets-A Curated List
Making Friends with Poetry? Start Here.
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Poetry Books for Kids-A Curated List
Including collections from MoMA. Caroline Kennedy A.A. Milne and more
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Does a Poem Have to Rhyme & Other Burning Questions
Plus how I gathered the poems for my first poetry book "Hearts on Pilgrimage" - thank you, pandemic.
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PoetScribe Week 3--12 Poems for Writing & Remembering
From Classical to Contemporary, here's a great start to a Poetry Notebook
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PoetScribe Week 2--Emily Dickinson & I Share a Poem, Plus an Invitation
How Writing out Poems is Good for Your Brain
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How to Write a Poem and the Gift of Where to Begin
How poems beget poetry, eleventy hundred meanings of a word and why English is a poor substitute for language
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PoetScribe Week 1-A Sonnet and an Invitation
How to Remember & Recite Poetry (without all the 8th grade butterflies)
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How I Made Friends with Poetry
And the gift of writing & learning in community
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