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About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Earth Song Poem Featured on The Slowdown!—Birds in Home Depot

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

birds in home depot poem-birds in fountain

“Birds in Home Depot” makes a journey from poet Rick Maxson’s experience, to the Earth Song nature poems anthology, to Poetry Foundation’s The Slowdown!

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Earth Song, Nature Poems, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

The Rapping in the Attic—Happy Holidays Fun Video!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Rapping in the Attic Joke Video for Christmas Ornament

Wishing you a happy holiday week—starting with this fun animation, featuring a little mischief and magic in the attic!

Filed Under: Mischief and Magic, Videos

Video: Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience—Enchanting!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Earth Song Horse apple nature poems

Get ready to be enchanted by this nature poems video, created especially for Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience. We’d love to read a poem you write, inspired by your favorite moment!

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Nature Poems, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

An Exclusive Call for Poems: Jekyll and Hyde Book Club

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

christmas candle golden glimmer

Share your Jekyll and Hyde poems in the comment box of this post. This is a patron-exclusive chance to submit poems for the anthology or simply share poetry with your fellow Tweetspeak patrons. 🙂

Filed Under: Classic Books, Patron Only, Patron Publishing Opportunties, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Don’t Ask Why Book Club: From New York to Paris

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

turquoise street

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Don’t Ask Why: So Many Meteorites

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Woman Floating Surreal Meteorites

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Don’t Ask Why Book Club: Dolores

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

Sunset on Seine River Paris France

In the first installment of our book club discussion of Michelle Ortega’s “Don’t Ask Why” chapbook, we explore the source of the author’s pain—and resilience.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Don't Ask Why Book Club, Patron Only

Book Club Announcement: Don’t Ask Why by Michelle Ortega

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Compagnons dv devoir, paris

Join us for our next book club, discussing poet Michelle Ortega’s chapbook, Don’t Ask Why, beginning in October (domestic violence month).

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Don't Ask Why Book Club

Summer Break & Take Your Poet to Work Day

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Summer Break Rejuvenate Daisy

The Tweetspeak team invites you to join us in taking a summer break with all the Take Your Poet to Work Day poets for inspirational company.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Adjustments: A Belated Bicentenary Party for John Keats

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Seed grass in sunlight

The characters from Adjustments: a novel return for a sort of celebration in belated honor of the bicentenary of the death of John Keats.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, John Keats

The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: You’re Cutting a Tree in Almería and Getting a Storm in Dusseldorf

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Windsurfer on choppy sea for Reindeer Chronicles book club

In this final discussion of The Reindeer Chronicles book club, we consider the interconnectedness of land use and the water system, also known as the rain in Spain.

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The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: We Can Never Approach the Wisdom of These Animals

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Snowy scene

In this week’s discussion of The Reindeer Chronicles, we consider the wisdom of the animals themselves in engineering an ecosystem.

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The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: That Which Has Been Damaged Can Be Healed

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Rolling green hills with winding road for Reindeer Chronicles book club

In the first installment of our Reindeer Chronicles, we explore the amazing regeneration of China’s Loess Plateau after centuries of degradation.

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Book Club Announcement: The Reindeer Chronicles

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Winter sunrise over bare trees for Reindeer Chronicles book club

We start our 2021 book club season with a title to help us work with the language of crisis and stories of possibility in the Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Reindeer Chronicles

Adjustments Excerpt: The Dinner Party

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

reeds in sunlight

In this amusing excerpt from Will Willingham’s novel Adjustments, a man and his landlady invite dates for each other to a dinner party, and a ruckus ensues.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog

Poet Laura: Difficult to Forecast

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Storm at sea

While Tropical Storm Laura heats up in the Atlantic, we add this poem to our Poet Laura collection of “poems about Lauras.”

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Listening by the Lake

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Book of Delights guitar

In this final installment of our book club discussion of The Book of Delights, Ross Gay writes of the small town wave and common decency.

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Simply Called Sharing What We Love

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Venice brick building

In this week’s book club discussion of The Book of Delights, Ross Gay riffs on the delight (and ethics) of simply sharing what you love.

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The Book of Delights Book Club: High Five from Strangers

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

The Book of Delights - monkeys playing

In this week’s book club discussion of Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, we are finding delight in a sleeping gecko, an umbrella, a green bottle, high fives, and more.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Patron Only, The Book of Delights

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Zoom Pandemic Edition

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Zoom

When poets celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day during a pandemic, it’s likely total pandemonium. Join Lucille Clifton, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson & more in a Zoom chat.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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