Join us as we wrap up our discussion of 'poemcrazy' with woolly mammoth, vikings, and writing to save your life.

Poems and dreams gather fragments of our days and piece them back together in whimsical, even frightening ways. Join us for our latest 'poemcrazy' discussion.

Sometimes poetry is just begging not to be understood. In this week's 'poemcrazy' book club installment, we're invited to 'not think, not understand.'

We're reading 'poemcrazy: freeing your life with words' together at Tweetspeak for National Poetry Month. This week, we talk about listening to ourselves.

We're reading 'poemcrazy: freeing your life with words' together this month at Tweetspeak. Are you reading along?

Join us for our next book club title, 'poemcrazy' by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, just in time for National Poetry Month.

In the end, the creative act can be misunderstood, and the creation seen for something other than what it is. Lyla Willingham Lindquist wraps up our book club discussion of L.L. Barkat's The Novelist.

Readers want to know who the various characters in The Novelist represent. Lyla Willingham Lindquist wants to know who the tea basket represents. Join us for week two of our book club discussion.

How long must you lie on the floor staring at the ceiling before you're ready to write that story? We're discussing The Novelist by L.L. Barkat in our new Tweetspeak Book Club. Come on in and join us.

The Novelist is a book that can be read in a sitting or two (maybe three, if you're having trouble finding your tea basket). We invite you to join us around the Tweetspeak coffee table for our latest book club beginning November 28.

Kim Addonizio says writing form poetry can teach you economy and structure and take you unexpected places. But what if you have no sense of rhythm? Can you still write a sonnet? Lyla Lindquist wraps up our Ordinary Genius book club this week with enough iambic pentameter to make you scream.

Terrible things happen in fairy tales. Even in the watered-down Disney versions, stepmothers try to poison their stepdaughters, children are lost in the woods and captured to be eaten, young women are imprisoned in towers. Lyla Lindquist leads our latest book club discussion on Kim Addonizio's Ordinary Genius.

By this time, I’m ready to ask the chicken question. I’ve been scratching around for an angle, and even as I type this, I don’t have one. But Kim Addonizio tells me I don’t have to know where I’m going when I start writing, and even goes so far as to say it might be [...]

My entry into poetry did not happen in a night. Oh, sure. It may look that way. One day I was calling poetry “cryptic nonsense” and practically the next, posting a lengthy poem on Facebook about lumberjacks, kitchen knives, Twinkies, and the persuasive powers of semi-colon eyelashes. Now, she’ll never take the credit for it—no, [...]

The other day I stumbled onto an old Google Talk conversation with a friend, from about a year ago. The conversation went something like this: Friend: I lurked at the Tweetspeak Twitter party last night.  Me: I can’t do the Tweetspeak. Too confusing. Friend: I was lost. I’m too literal. Me: L.L. tagged me on [...]