Join Seth Haines for a new poetry prompt on the swallow, from this month's Swan, Swallow, the Phoenix theme.

In honor of the 2013 Trekkies high holy day (the debut of the new movie Into Darkness, opens May 16th), we're featuring Star Trek poems.

Writing short fiction is a marvelous playground for the poet to develop the essential ingredients of great poems. Try your hand at our "encounter" prompt today.

More often than not, it seems, fiction arises out of real events. In this short piece by 13-year-old Sonia Joie, we find the fictional diary entry that could just as well have been written by an actual soldier in the field one day back in 1914.

Seth Haines kicks off the month of May with a new poetic playlist on our Swans, Swallow, Phoenix theme, and a brand new poetry prompt to boot.

Making Grendel from paper mâché? Perhaps you'd rather just write a creature poem. Seth Haines has a new poetry prompt from literature's greatest creatures.

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.

A Tweetspeak poetry prompt involving Ogden Nash, Custard the cowardly dragon, and light verse.

Seth Haines spins a ferocious new poetry prompt from the nonsense words of Carroll's 'Jabberwocky.'

Tweetspeak is teaming up with Patty Paine, of Diode Poetry Journal, to jumpstart a Phone Poets Project for National Poetry Month.

The pantoum is a metaphor, an artistic expression of cooperation, and the perfect poetic medium for artistic collaboration. Seth Haines invites you to join with other poets in a collaborative pantoum in the comments.