Tweetspeak Poetry

10 Things Poets & Writers Can Do with the Small Moments

The small moments add up. What if we reclaimed them for our creativity? What new art might bubble up? Or, what new life directions?

Philip Freneau, friend of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, is known as the poet of the American Revolution.

In “American Independence in Verse,” Bradford Skow draws upon historical documents for poems that illustrate the run-up to revolution.

Check out this video for the civil war novel ‘Brookhaven.’ A beautiful glimpse of a book that reviewers have said is “immensely satisfying.”

In “Pass and Stow,” poet David Livewell describes the layers of people and events that together compose a life.

“Otherside” by Sara Barkat is a creative, imaginative science fiction novel telling the story of a young man caught in war, loss, and grief.

I love a good story. But it’s in the telling—in the sounds of the words, and in the echoes and depths of expression—that my love for a novel is born.

In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes shows how science influenced the early poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.