In this Eating and Drinking Poems post, a poet pairs her Polish grandmother’s recipe for perogies with Philip Levine’s poem ‘The Simple Truth’
Launching Love, Etc.
A day spent celebrating love—to launch Love, Etc. Sharing quotes, a live reading, chocolates. What’s not to love?
National Poetry Month: Win 2 With Haiku, at Library Hotel
Now you can win a two-night stay at the Library Hotel in NYC. With your original haiku! National Poetry Month contest winners announced May 5.
Fiction Workshop: The Art of Storytelling
A fiction workshop you won’t forget, with leader Gloria Kempton. Kempton has worked with over 10, 000 writers to get them to the next level!
Artist Highlight: IAM Auction—Gail Nadeau
Beautiful work by Gail Nadeau will be part of the wonderful IAM Auction!
National Poetry Month Events: Pick a Poem for Library Hotel
Library Hotel, Best American Poetry, and TS Poetry are asking you to pick a poem for the Library Hotel’s beautiful Poetry Garden. If your poem is chosen, you will receive a gift.
The Poem of the Month: February
What was the Poem of the Month for February? Come see what you voted to the top.
Artist Highlight: IAM Auction—Ann Tracy
IAM Auction Artists: Ann Tracy works in a variety of media including digital art, photography, video and theatre (actor, director, playwright).
Choose the Poem of the Month
Looking for the best poem? It might be a matter of the heart. Help us choose the poem of the month!
A Poem a Day: Beautiful and Convenient
Best poem a day! Daily inbox delivery, Monday through Friday. Monthly themes, beautiful art. Discover established and emerging poets.
Get Your Short Poems Featured!
You could get your short poems featured in one of our popular Top 10 posts or published in Every Day Poems. It’s easy.
How to Read a Poem: The Book
For the reader new to poetry, Runyan’s guide will open your senses to the combined craft and magic known as “poems”. For the well versed, if you will, the book might make you fall in love again.
The Poem of the Month: January
Wherein we reveal the poem of the month. You picked it. We’re unveiling it.
Go Ahead, Make Our Year: The FedEx Dare
FedEx has yet to make a delivery to the moon, but we figure if they are in the business of flying…it could happen
Choose the Poem of the Month
It’s time to sleuth the poem of the month! Which poems were most loved in January? You can help us know.
Insider’s Guide to Easy English Teaching—Sonnets
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Doors & Passageways: Dancers and Dreams Poetry Prompts
Doors and passageways poetry prompts. Who will you be, what will you do, to get that door to your dreams open? Put it in a poem.
Night Poetry: Emily Dickinson’s Symbol Challenge
Can night poetry have sunshine? If you’re Emily Dickinson, you might find a way to mix dark and light by speaking symbolically.
Video: Reading A Book (Loki)
Did you know that around Tweetspeak Poetry there are a few Thor and Loki fans? (We *know* you know there are book fans.) This video nods to both.
Night Poetry: Darkness and Villanelle Poems
Try your hand at a night poem that easily captures the ambiguity of darkness, simply by virtue of its form.