Today's Little Ditty

In September 2016, Jane Yolen challenged us to write a poem that features reading or writing in the form of a septercet. It's a ...

For obvious reasons, Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong 's challenge to create a poem video was not well-suited for the pages of The B...

THE DITTY OF THE MONTH CLUB Whaaat? No spotlight interview? Nope, not this month. But there's still plenty to celebrate aro...

O ne of my favorite National Poetry Month activities is Irene Latham 's annual Progressive Poem.  It's exciting, spontaneous, fu...

"Parigi - Ode" by alfonsobussolin There is something about you that makes me pick up my pen and write.                 ...

  © 2017 Irene Latham. All rights reserved. Helen Frost has challenged us to write an ode poem this month, following these instr...

ODE TO A SEASHELL I see you hiding there—a  shimmer in the waves beneath my feet I wriggle my fingers deep into the wet sand and fee...