Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard's "Tickets for a Prayer Wheel."

The next six poems edited from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter Poetry jam, with the prompts from Annie Dillard's "Tickets for a Prayer Wheel."

It was some Twitter poetry party. Get ready for a bank, some actors, fish, a scarlet waterfall, and bananas. Bananas?

National Poetry Month starts Monday. Tweetspeak will be your go-to place for tickets to the best in poetry all month long. Your first ticket is one of our favorites: Tweetspeak will host a Twitter Poetry Party on Thursday, from 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST.

Glynn Young reflects on a particular kind of resolution, the kind that comes from commitment and determination--the kind that created Tweetspeak Poetry.

Glynn Young has five new poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts from the novella "The Novelist."

You heard right. It’s that time again. Tweetspeak will host a Twitter Poetry Party on Tuesday, October 9, from 9:30-10:30 p.m. EST. Wonder how these things work? @tspoetry will provide a prompt — could be a thought, a line of poetry, a short quote or even a headline. You write a line of poetry on Twitter [...]

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.

Years ago, I had the privilege of rubbing eyeballs with royalty. Flanked by an impressive retinue of distinguished figure heads, the fair-skinned and curly-haired king stood before a hushed audience at my university and delivered a cultural manifesto on the artist's role in creating the juxtaposition of political and religious imagery to benefit and protect society. But I was more interested in his shoes.

A few days after we announced our July Mosaics project, someone left us a tiny confession in the comment box. "When this idea was first posted, wrote Rosanne Osborne, "I admit I was dubious, but it’s been amazing to me how generative the experience has been."

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.