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Casual (The E-book is Here!)

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

Casual Jeans Susan Etole
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our National Poetry Month “Show Us Your Poetry Jeans” Project. We love doing special projects with you over the year, as well as celebrating fun days like our upcoming Take Your Poet to Work Day.

As promised, we’ve put together a beautiful e-book featuring your photos, poems and/or your lines as part of Cento Poems.

We’ve just sent it to all current Tweetspeak supporters at the $15 to $100+ levels. For our general readers and those included in the e-book, it will be made available for free download during National Poetry Month 2016.

Casual Cover

If you’re interested in supporting all the poetry for life you find here day after day, you can “just say thanks” now for everything you love and want to bring to more people in the world:

$15 • Tea and Cinnamon Toast — supports goodies for one Mischief Café

$30 • Keep the Basic Boat Afloat — supports about one article at Tweetspeak

$100 • Just Say Thanks—One-Time Love! — supports the printing and sending of 20 posters for Poetry at Work Day, or several articles at Tweetspeak

Or, if you’re looking for mutual support (where we provide links to your website and—where applicable—promotion), you could check out our Supporters Packages, which are available at the $15, $45, and $125 levels.

And, if you’re looking for even more growth and personalized attention,
we also have a Poets and Writers Career Package, starting at $975 and on up to $2, 000. These packages go a long way to supporting your work and ours, both.

But, remember, you needn’t support Tweetspeak to get your free copy of Casual. It will be available for free download during National Poetry Month 2016! See you then. (And hopefully before then, too.)

Photo by Susan Etole. Used with permission.

List of Poets and Photographers Featured in Casual, in order of appearance: Susan Etole, Michelle Ortega, Terri Conlin, Jeniffer Smith, Elizabeth Marshall, Michelle Rummel, Dave Malone, Taylor Burgin, Darlene, Naomi Jeanpierre, Jessie Stewart, Barbara Crooker, Laurie Kolp, Tania Pryputniewicz, Amy Billone, Michael Garcia, Ceil, Donna Z. Falcone, Lexanne Leonard, Irish Grace, Wendy Galgan, Sandra Heska King, Monica Sharman, Maureen Doallas, Richard Maxson, Bethany Rohde, Glynn Young. Editor: L.L. Barkat.

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L.L. Barkat is the Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry and the author of six books for grown-ups and four for children, including the popular Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing. She has also served as a writer for The Huffington Post blog and is a freelance writer for Edutopia. Her poetry has appeared on NPR and at VQR and The Best American Poetry. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
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About L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat is the Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry and the author of six books for grown-ups and four for children, including the popular Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing. She has also served as a writer for The Huffington Post blog and is a freelance writer for Edutopia. Her poetry has appeared on NPR and at VQR and The Best American Poetry. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

Comments

  1. Maureen Doallas says

    July 5, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Thank you for including me!

    Reply
  2. Rick Maxson says

    July 6, 2015 at 9:16 am

    Thanks for including Fibonacci Jeans.

    Reply
  3. Donna Z Falcone says

    July 8, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    I love it so much!
    The photos!
    The poetry!
    The concept.
    Thank you so much for including me. It’s really beautiful. 🙂

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      July 8, 2015 at 1:03 pm

      Why, thank you, Donna. Glad it is a good gift for you.

      Reply
  4. Sandra Heska King says

    July 8, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    I’ve over the moon about being included. This is beautiful.

    Reply
  5. Amy Billone says

    July 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Wow! The book is beautiful! Thank you for including my poem. It was a sentimental poem for me, which makes it even more special for me to see it in such a wonderful compilation. Thanks so much again.

    Reply
  6. L. L. Barkat says

    July 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    You are all quite welcome. Thanks for letting us work with your words and pictures! And thanks for the compliments. We do pride ourselves in “bringing beautiful work to light.” And giving those words a beautiful presentation to accompany them 🙂

    Reply
  7. S. Etole says

    July 11, 2015 at 8:38 am

    Delighted to have my photo grace your book.

    Reply
  8. Elizabeth Marshall says

    July 14, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    What a beautiful final product.
    Grateful to be included.
    Thank you for investing in us.

    Reply

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