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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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30 Days to Richer Writing—Part I Community Room

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Relax on the Quiet Porch

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ This Has Been a Summer

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Poetry Club Tea Date

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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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Every Morning

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the tea

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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The Staying Power of ‘A is for Azure’ (And It’s Now on Kindle!)

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T.S. Poetry is delighted to announce the arrival of A is for Azure: The Alphabet in Colors, illustrated by Donna Falcone, in Kindle format.

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The Play’s the Thing: Winter Stars is Born

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Winter Sugar Stars

Do you have a writing dream? Maybe it’s time to funnel it in a new direction. That’s what happened for Sonia Barkat, with Winter Stars.

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Poem Presents—A Poem Is a Gift No Distance Can Erase

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It’s simple to participate. Just find a few poems of beauty, comfort, or hope to share—from a site like Poetry Foundation.

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The Writing Life Workshop: A Practice That Sustains

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Pink Flowers Spring Up

The writing life must be just that—a life—if it is to sustain. But how do you develop that life on a practical level? Or, how do you jumpstart it if it seems to have slipped away? Come together with an encouraging community and stir new writing habits and inspiration, in a workshop that will show you the ways.

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Poetry on the Menu: A 30-Day Writing Challenge—Share Your Poems Here!

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yummy salad with oranges

Did you know that one of the top ways to curb climate breakdown is by eating a plant-rich diet? Poetry on the Menu is a 30-day writing challenge that will introduce you to the glories of eating plantfully—with health, good humor, and good taste as your close companions.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetic Earth Month, writing prompt, writing prompts

Holidays by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—And Happy Ones, to You!

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Hopeful Snow Pines

We send our best wishes to you for the season and the year to come with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Holidays.”

Filed Under: Nature Poems, poetry, Winter Poems

What You Made Possible in 2021!

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Echinacea with crown orange flowers

What you do for poetry and literacy—and what poetry and literacy do for you. It’s a partnership at Tweetspeak. And it means more kindness, generosity, and beautiful living.

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Announcing: Adjustments—A Novel for Our Time

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Adjustments by Will Willingham

This is a novel for our time. Forget about how it will sometimes make you laugh more than you have in a while. Or make you love the characters and wish you could meet them at the corner store. Little by little, this story also unfolds a vision for how to navigate in a world where we can’t always resolve things, a vision for choosing life.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments, Books, Fiction

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