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Commit Poetry: Romeo & Juliet’s Two Households

By Sandra Heska King 5 Comments

Commit Poetry Romeo & Juliet Ferns

Sandra Heska King winds up her memorization of selections from Romeo & Juliet among crayfish and shoulder-high ferns, considering the divisions of two houses.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

Commit Poetry: Romeo and Juliet

By Sandra Heska King 19 Comments

Poetry Dare Romeo and Juliet red rose

Sandra Heska King takes a dare to commit more poetry for National Poetry Month. This time, it’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

Commit Poetry: “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

By Sandra Heska King 29 Comments

Ozymandias

Sandra Heska King continues her poetry memorization journey by committing Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias.”

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Percy Bysshe, poetry

Commit Poetry: Edgar A. Guest (Michigan’s First & Last Poet Laureate)

By Sandra Heska King 11 Comments

Edgar A Guest It Can Be Done

Sandra Heska King finds some old, inscribed Edgar A. Guest collections, muses about their curious inscriptions, and commits a little poetry to heart.

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Committing Prufrock: 10 Reasons to Say Yes to Memorizing Poetry

By Sandra Heska King 20 Comments

Commiting Poetry tiger in snow

Why would someone take a dare to commit The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock to memory? Sandra Heska King has 10 great reasons to say yes to a poetry dare.

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National Poetry Month Dare: Commit ‘The Stolen Child’ by W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

yeats fairy land stolen child

Join us in our National Poetry Month Dare as we memorize “The Stolen Child” by W. B. Yeats, complete with printable Faery Badges.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, W. B. Yeats

Committing Prufrock: Poetry Memorization Tips & Memories

By Sandra Heska King 24 Comments

Committing Prufrock Memorization Memories white flowers on green

Sandra Heska King uses her Phone-a-Friend to crowd-source poetry memorization tips and memories as she continues her Committing Prufrock Poetry Dare.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: How to Commit Prufrock

By Sandra Heska King 26 Comments

Poetry Dare How to Commit Prufrock orange cat

Sandra Heska King introduces her plan to commit Prufrock (to memory) and introduces our Barista Badges so you can join the fun and celebrate your progress.

Filed Under: Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Committing Prufrock: A New Poetry Dare

By Sandra Heska King 41 Comments

Poetry Dare Committing Prufrock - two white northern gannet

Sandra Heska King gets nabbed while under cover in the poet’s protection program and agrees to commit Prufrock in the latest Poetry Dare scheme.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poets and Poems: Sarah Carey and “The Grief Committee Minutes”

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Dead flowers Sarah Carey

In her new poetry collection, “The Grief Committee Minutes,” Sarah Carey explores the many kinds of losses and griefs we experience in life.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

How to Do a Simple Poetry Mandala

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

orange dahlias simple poetry mandala

Maybe you’d like to try a poetry mandala but you want to start simple. Here are two ways to create simple poetry mandalas. Display them and enjoy memorizing your chosen lines!

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How to Make a Poetry Mandala

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

mandala teapot finished

Making a poetry mandala can be a centering activity that helps you memorize beautiful lines that guide or enrich your life.

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Poet Laura: For the Birds—A Poetry Reading … for Chickens

By Dheepa R. Maturi 6 Comments

lake and trees poet laura

Dheepa R. Maturi reaches the “Reading Poetry to Chickens” stage of her Poet Laura journey. Join her at the chicken coop for couplets and rhymes.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, Poet Laura

Edward Hirsch and “The Heart of American Poetry”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Mirror Lake Yosemite Hirsch

In “The Heart of American Poetry,” Edward Hirsch has written both a personal memoir and a love letter to American poetry.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, Poets

Poetry Prompt: Simple Poems for Frustrated Writers

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

What simple poems can you write from the stuff of your days? Callie Feyen she considers the role of simplicity for frustrated writers.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Poetry Prompt: Giving and Receiving with Creative Nonfiction

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores ways of giving and receiving with creative nonfiction as a guide.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Generous, Memory, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poet Laura: National Poetry Month

By Laura Boggess 4 Comments

Purple, white and yellow blooms

As Spring blooms, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, is finding floral and poetic awakening in the garden just in time for National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura

Poet Laura: To the Moon, Poetry!

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

New York Pizzeria

Should the Poet Laura leave poems about Chicago or New York on the moon? Let the pizza decide.

Filed Under: Blog, Food Poems, Poet Laura

Shakespeare Sonnet XLI (41): Those petty wrongs that liberty commits

< Return to all 154 William Shakespeare Sonnets Sonnet XLI (41) Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed; […]

Teach It: Collaborative Poetry—I’m With Aristotle

By Dana Kinsey 10 Comments

collective poetry lens ball on rock beach

Writing collaborative poems proves a fertle ground for students to learn and grow both collectively and individually.

Filed Under: Blog, Collaborative Poetry, English Teaching Resources, poetry teaching resources, Suicide Prevention, Teach It, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

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