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National Poetry Month: Mischief Café Prompt

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

steaming tea

We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with an invitation to The Mischief Café. Join us with cinnamon toast, tea, and poem-writing to get the party started!

Filed Under: Mischief Café, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Mischief Café: Little Rock, Arkansas

By Laura Lynn Brown 19 Comments

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When Laura Lynn Brown hosted a Mischief Cafe in her home in Little Rock, she thought her guests might discuss their relationships to poetry. She didn’t expect a stealth sock.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Tea

Mischief Cafe: Lincoln, Nebraska

By L.L. Barkat 20 Comments

Christmas Lights Blue Trees

How do we love, across gaps and miles, and different ways of holding our teacups? The Mischief Café asks serious questions amidst great laughter.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry at Home

Mischief Cafe: Colorado Springs School, CO

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

The Mischief Cafe makes a stop to the Colorado Springs School. Poetry, elusive tea, and cinnamon bread prevail after a snowy trip through Vail.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Recipes

Mischief Cafe: San Francisco and Trouble Coffee

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Trouble Coffee Yosemite sign

From mind-reading cat ears, to Trouble Coffee in two locations, the San Francisco Mischief Café is full of adjustments.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Mischief Café, Sestina

Mischief Café

Coffee Cup on Table

What is The Mischief Café? It started out as a welcome page here at Tweetspeak. The page is still active, and it’s a great place for newcomers to get familiar with us and for regulars to see what’s currently “on the menu” in terms of our latest projects and themes. The café is also now […]

Mischief Cafe: Seattle, Washington

By L.L. Barkat 24 Comments

Dandelion in Fall Mischief Cafe

The 11-day Mischief Cafe tour begins, and the defining quality will be surprise (with plenty of hilarity to go along with it).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café

The Mischief Cafe: Basking Ridge, New Jersey

By L.L. Barkat 19 Comments

Mischief Cafe Cinnamon Toast

The very first Mischief Cafe had everything one might expect: tea, toast, poetry. And not a few unexpected moments (and black feathers).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, poetry teaching resources

Reading Kubla Khan: A Mischief Café Dream

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Kubla Khan Poem in Woods

What better place to read Kubla Khan than in a dream-like woodland? What better place to discuss mischief and controlled chaos.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Dream Poems, Mischief Café

The Mischief Café

Choice Tea

Welcome to The Mischief Café, our welcome and announcement space for newcomers and regulars at Tweetspeak Poetry. For Tweetspeak Newcomers Want to connect with our community? Our Poetry Baristas are here to help you find your way. If they don’t happen to notice that you chose a table in the corner, feel free to wave […]

Poetry at Home—With Mischief, Toast, and Tea

By L.L. Barkat 22 Comments

Poetry is for life, not for ivory towers. That’s why we’re taking it home, with mischief, toast, and tea, through a new initiative called The Mischief Café.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry for Life

Reading Ulysses: Mischief in the Woods

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Reading Ulysses in Fall Woods

What can reading Ulysses in the woods teach us about changing education and throwing out the idea of homework? A whole lot.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Courage Poems, English Teaching Resources, Hero's Journey Poems, Humanity Poems, Incidentally, Read for Fun, Travel Poems

Poet Laura: Goodbye—and Hello!

By Dheepa R. Maturi 14 Comments

gondola tips in sun

Dheepa R. Maturi bids farewell as 2023’s Poet Laura while she announces and welcomes her successor for 2024. Find out who takes up the feather and where you can find Dheepa in the year to come.

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Top 10 Ideas for How to Start a Poetry Club

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Poetic Poppies Poetry Club

Exploring poetry together can make your friendships (and your life) more interesting—whether at home, school, or in the workplace. Here are 10 great ideas for how to start a poetry club and keep the goodness going.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Activities and Prompts, Poetry Club, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Book Club Announcement: Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Class of Wistaria Tea House

Priya Parker encourages us to create meaningful, transformative gatherings that shape “the way we think, feel, and make sense of our world.” Join us for our latest book club discussion of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Art of Gathering

Tea Time: Writing Our Leaves & Our Lives Workshop

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

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Explore the tasty partnership of tea, story, poetry and writing—in this special writing workshop with author Megan Willome.

Filed Under: Blog, Tea, Workshops

Regional Tour: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

By Laurie Klein 15 Comments

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Laurie Klein’s trip up the Ladder of Death through Mesa Verde National Park culminates in the poetic creation of ancient Puebloan pottery.

Filed Under: Blog, Colorado, Regional Tour

Regional Tour: Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State University

By Sandra Heska King 18 Comments

Black dot lace

Sandra Heska King tours the Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State U, discovering culture through teapots, quilts, hats and illegal hatpins.

Filed Under: Art, Blog

5 Great Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

5 Great Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud - by Tania Runyan |Tweetspeak Poetry

How can we read a poem aloud in a way that captures its essence? With these five tips, reading poetry aloud can be done with intentionality and confidence.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, poetry teaching resources

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Laura Lynn Brown is an author and publisher who supports Tweetspeak Poetry because of the inventive, supportive, nurturing, and just plain fun things it offers.

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