Maureen Doallas is a regular participant in our poetry jams on Twitter, and the author of blog Writing Without Paper. Her online eye ranges over a vast array of art, poetry and culture, and she freely shares what she she finds with the rest of us. T.S. Poetry Press has just published (“just” as in […]
Homage to Robert Frost
Poet Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), known for his use of colloquial American speech and rural settings, won four Pulitzer Prizes, among many other honors and recognitions. By the time I was in junior high and high school, his poetry was in all the American literature textbooks; he’d been published since 1914 and I assumed […]
Ah, A Literary Controversy
We noted a few days ago that Marcus Goodyear had posted an article on TweetSpeak Poetry in Books & Culture, published by Christianity Today. Micah Mattix, who authors the First Thoughts blog for First Things, took exception to something Marcus said, or thought he said, and posted an article about the Books & Culture article. […]
Article on Poet Joseph Brodsky
Today the Wall Street Journal published a fine article on poet Joseph Brodsky, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987 and served as U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991 and 1992. The article, by Len Aron, is a review of “Josephy Brodsky: A Literary Life” by Lev Loseff, but also serves as a wonderful […]
TweetSpeak Poetry Gets Famous
Marcus Goodyear has written an article for Christianity Today’s Books & Culture on TweetSpeak Poetry – how it started, what it evolved into, and where it may be headed. Key events in the creation: Bradley Moore (aka Shrinking Camel) didn’t understand hashtags, and L.L. Barkat and Glynn Young had begun to rediscover poetry via Twitter. […]
Barbies at Communion named ERB Honor Book
A Leopard’s Smile 2
Below are four additional poems from Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party. The prompts for the jam all came from the play Richard II, by Wiliam Shakespeare.
A Leopard’s Smile
It was a small but wildly enthusiastic group that met Tuesday night for the Twitter poetry party.
An Interview with David Wheeler
Last week, I posted an article here about reading poetry while waiting in line to vote. The poetry in question was Contingency Plans: Poems by David Wheeler. Today over at The High Calling is an interview with David about his poetry and writing. Below is some information from the interview about his background and upbringing. […]
The Poetry of Voting
The mid-term election was last week, and I prepared myself for the process with – a book of poems. While the lines weren’t expected to be long, unlike 2008, I still wanted to be prepared to wait. Voting lines aren’t the best places to make conversation – people are very circumspect; no one wants to […]
As Easy as Pie 2
Below are seven more poems from our recent poetry jam (or was it poetry pie?) on Twitter.
As Easy As Pie
The Twitter poetry party topic was pie.
Governments of Tea 7 (and the finale)
The final six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Governments of Tea 6
Below are six more poems edited from our recent Twitter poetry party, all inspired and prompted by The Republic of Tea
Governments of Tea 5
Here are five more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party, with the prompts taken from The Republic of Tea
Governments of Tea 4
Tea poems you can drink up. Including Orion, catholic schools, and jazz. Not your ordinary fare.
Governments of Tea 3
Here are six more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party on Tea
Governments of Tea 2
Here are the next four poems from our recent Twitter poetry party. The subject of tea takes a business, then political, and finally a personal, turn.
Governments of Tea
Well, everyone brought a teacup filled with tea to our recent Twitter poetry party
Robotics in Verse 4
This completes the series of poems from July’s Twitter poetry party here at TweetSpeak Poetry.