Tweetspeak Poetry

Poets and Poems: Paul Willis and “Orvieto”

Poet Paul Willis visits a walled medieval town of Orvieto in Italy, and he describes its art, churches, streets, monuments, and vineyards.

In “Points in the Network: Poems,” Gabrielle Myers takes familiar, everyday subjects and makes you think you’re reading them for the first time.

Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a poem based on Beth Copeland’s “True North.” Add a little fog & mystery along the way!

“Wild Flight: Poems” by Christine Rhein tells a story of how a boy’s displacement during World War II shaped his family for decades after.

In “You Were Once on Fire,” poet Peter Murphy describes the distance between the real and the ideal and a sense of things coming undone.

I may be the only person I know born and raised in New Orleans who didn’t have the famous New Orleans accent.

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Poet Donna Vorreyer comes to grips with aging, grief, and longing in her fourth poetry collection, “Unrivered.”