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A Little Mischief Poem and Best Wishes for the Holidays!

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Golden Christmas tree at cathedral

The Tweetspeak team shares a little mischief poem and wishes you and yours a meaningful holiday season as we take our holiday break and prepare for a year of Perspective.

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Time for The Midnight Ball—A Gold Medal Winner!

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The Midnight Ball with Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal award winning children's books

A new children’s book ‘The Midnight Ball,’ by Sara Barkat, combines a delightful story and illustrations with poetic device and telling time. Can you find the double meanings?

Filed Under: Blog, Books, children, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Language Arts, Math-Science-Technology

New Release!—Announcing Mildred’s Garden

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Mildred's Garden romance book with tea and Russian Sage Right-2

A love story on multiple levels, Mildred’s Garden stirs our hearts with the hope that beauty, love, and “beginning again” can bring to any life when challenges arise.

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National Poetry Month Book Giveaway—Tell Us Your Personal Poetry Story to Enter!

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How to Write a Poem How to Read a Poem How to Write a Form Poem Book Trio Giveaway

You could win two books from the popular “How To” trio, when you tell us your poetry story. You can tell it in prose or poetry. We might even ask to publish it!

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Road Trip!—Great Poets Read for National Poetry Month

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Midwest Missouri Bluffs Road Trip Poems

Take a poetic trip with this fine group of talented poets—in a capstone evening reading event for National Poetry Month. Bring your travel mug and keys!

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National Poetry Month: How to Write a Form Poem!

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How to Write a Form Poem Porch

Looking for a wonderful book to inspire you this National Poetry Month? Try out ‘How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms.’

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30 Days to Richer Writing—Part II, Community Room

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Mallow

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Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Kissed

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the tea

Get your favorite steep (or brew) & join us in writing a poem based on a line from “Kissed” by David Malone: “You held my name in your coat.”

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ First Fall

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from “First Fall” by Maggie Smith.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Braiding His Hair

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from “Braiding His Hair” by Alison Luterman.

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5-Minute Refresh: Proof of Thought

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Peaceful Ocean

Give your soul a 5-minute refresh with this invitation to breathe deeply and meditate on a life-giving line of poetry.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Baby by Madison Julius Cawein

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from “Baby” by Madison Julius Cawein.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ A Clock in the Square

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.

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5-Minute Refresh: The Door that Opens

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Relaxing Water and Sky

Give your soul a 5-minute refresh with this invitation to breathe deeply and meditate on a life-giving line of poetry.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Peacock Feather

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from Effie Lee Newsome’s “Peacock Feather.”

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ You Had Not Known

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from L.L. Barkat’s “You Had Not Known.”

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New Workshop—The Joy of Poetry Begins Us

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Waterfall Joy of Poetry

The Joy of Poetry Begins Us is an 8-week class about fostering community among those who love the written word. It’s about becoming people who move beyond the beautiful world of the poems themselves and into friendships and love.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ What We Would Give Up

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the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy this poetry prompt based on a starter line from a Marie Howe poem.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Oriole

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Grass bokeh poetry club

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Waiting for Neruda’s Memoirs—It’s Here!

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Waiting for Neruda's Memoirs Rose of Sharon

Lyrical and whimsical writer Laura Boggess brings us a sweetly inspiring story of one woman’s quest to put her life back together. Poetry plays a part. But not before a book gets delivered to the wrong house on a windy, impossible day.

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