Scott Cairns, professor of English and Director of Creativity Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the author of six collections of poetry, the memoir Short Trip to the Edge, the non-fiction work The End of Suffering, and numerous articles, essays and even a libretto for an oratorio. I had the distinct pleasure of taking […]
National Poetry Month: Luci Shaw
Luci Shaw is a poet, essayist, retreat leader and teacher. She’s published eight books of poetry, and her poems have appeared in publications ranging from Books & Culture and The Christian Century to The Southern Review. She is currently Writer in Residence for Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shaw was born in England in […]
It’s National Poetry Month
There must be something one can say about National Poetry Month starting on April Fool’s Day. But I can’t, or won’t. For National Poetry Month 2011, TweetSpeak Poetry will be featuring a series of posts on poets living and dead, published and unpublished, and including links to sites that we’ve found on the internet that […]
A Second Edition for “Barbies”
Barbies at Communion: and other poems by Marcus Goodyear has just gone into its second edition – and it has a new cover. Published last year by T. S. Poetry Press, Barbies has received a number of great reviews and was selected as a runner-up for best poetry book of the year by the Englewood […]
Talking with Maureen Doallas about “Neruda’s Memoirs”
An interview with poet Maureen Doallas, about her background and poetic history, going into the publishing of her first book ‘Neruda’s Memoirs.’
“Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems” by Maureen Doallas
You know how it can be with expectations. You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it comes, you feel slightly deflated, because the expectation was bigger than the reality. That didn’t happen with Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems by Maureen Doallas. In fact, just the opposite happened. The reality exceeded my expectations, and […]
Of Parasols and Scorpions 3
Below are the next six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Diane Walker Reads Title Poem “Neruda’s memoirs”
Diane Walker, a friend of poet Maureen Doallas, reads the title poem from Maureen’s recently published Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems. (Diane created the video, too.)
Of Parasols and Scorpions 2
Here is the next group of six poems taken from our recent Twitter poetry party. Somehow the contributions moved from love to an apocalypse of weather to the planets and then to Hamlet’s voicemail
Poet Elizabeth Bishop
Today, the Wall Street Journal has an in-depth review of The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, published Feb. 1 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Written by Dana Gioia, former chair of the National Endowment of the Arts and recently appointed professor and public culture at the University of Southern California, the article goes far beyond a simple […]
Of Parasols and Scorpions
Last week, seven of us (and a few lost souls who wandered in and promptly left, determined to stay lost) joined together for our Twitter poetry party.
“Neruda’s Memoirs” by Maureen Doallas
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. […]