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Poetry Bestsellers April 2017 : Small Press Distribution
Poetry Bestsellers April 2017
SPD Poetry Bestsellers
April 2017
Of Being Dispersed by Simone White (Futurepoem Books)
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Indies Recommend: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read
As the nation’s only non-profit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main customers…
13 Poetry Collections For People Who Think They Don't Like Poetry
When I was first asked to make a list of poetry collections for people who think they don't like poetry, my first thought was, "Well, isn't that just abo...
Why Teaching Poetry Is So Important
The oft-neglected literary form can help students learn in ways that prose can't.
How Our Minds Were Once Shaped By Poetry
We often now picture our minds in unsound ways. They’re built to resonate to poetry. We’ve all but lost the memory of poetry’s historic role in molding minds (that’s the unsung pretext of Plato’s poetry ban). Poetry is a key cognitive technology , so powerful it was the Internet of its time.
Why Poetry Belongs in Business
Using compact language to explore the many dimensions of love, hope, suffering, and belief
How Many Copies Does It Take To Be an Amazon Bestseller?
Amazon, the biggest bookseller in America, is also famously one of the most tight-lipped.
How to read poetry like a professor
Thomas Foster, an ex-literature professor and author, explains how to get the most out of poems while avoiding intimidation
How to Build a Love for Poetry with Sonlight
Build a love for poetry using Sonlight Curriculum in your homeschool or after school program!
How Poetry, Policy, and Playwriting Dance for Change
Join IPS poets, playwrights, and other allied artists in discussing the power of combining a social justice mission with artist activism.
How Poetry Shakes Up the National Desk’s Morning Meetings
A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes.
Loved That Bestseller? Read This!
Here are some backlist read-a-likes to match your current favorite book from the bestseller list.
How to Promote Your Next Novel During NaNoWriMo
Follow these tips to learn how to promote your next bestseller as your write it during NaNoWriMo.
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry
I don’t want to convince you that you should love poetry. I want to convince you that you already do.
3 Awesome Plot Structures For Building Bestsellers
Novels are just like houses. Houses have rooms and residents. Novels have chapters and characters. Houses have curb appeal. Novels have pretty covers. Houses and novels both take a while to build, and the end results for both aren't worth much if they weren't built on a solid foundation. And whe
Poetry Books for People Who are Afraid of Poetry
Poetry is intimidating. There sometimes seems to be no middle ground between the always accessible Shel Silverstein and the linguistic labyrinths of Shakespeare. As a lover of both Silverstein and the
Why Are So Many Poets Also Artists?
The more poetry I read, the more I find that an improbable number of good poets are in fact multidisciplinary artists. I say improbable because poetry is a difficult enough vocation in itself; its …
Poetry in a World of Things
We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a “mental space” between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as “things in themselves”—things, that is, without the…
Who’s afraid of poetry?
The internet and social media have opened up a new universe to a generation of poets in India and given a new wind to poetry publishing. But has this democratization happened at a cost to quality and fundamentally changed the contours of what we once understood as poetry?
Poetry Magazine Discussion Guides
Reading companions to current issues of POETRY magazine.
How Poetry Came to Matter Again
A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.
