“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!
The Rapping in the Attic—Happy Holidays Fun Video!
Wishing you a happy holiday week—starting with this fun animation, featuring a little mischief and magic in the attic!
Video: Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience—Enchanting!
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!
An Exclusive Call for Poems: Jekyll and Hyde Book Club
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Don’t Ask Why Book Club: From New York to Paris
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Don’t Ask Why: So Many Meteorites
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Don’t Ask Why Book Club: Dolores
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Book Club Announcement: Don’t Ask Why by Michelle Ortega
Join us for our next book club, discussing poet Michelle Ortega’s chapbook, Don’t Ask Why, beginning in October (domestic violence month).
Summer Break & Take Your Poet to Work Day
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.
Adjustments: A Belated Bicentenary Party for John Keats
The characters from Adjustments: a novel return for a sort of celebration in belated honor of the bicentenary of the death of John Keats.
The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: You’re Cutting a Tree in Almería and Getting a Storm in Dusseldorf
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.
The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: We Can Never Approach the Wisdom of These Animals
In this week’s discussion of The Reindeer Chronicles, we consider the wisdom of the animals themselves in engineering an ecosystem.
The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: That Which Has Been Damaged Can Be Healed
In the first installment of our Reindeer Chronicles, we explore the amazing regeneration of China’s Loess Plateau after centuries of degradation.
Book Club Announcement: The Reindeer Chronicles
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.
Adjustments Excerpt: The Dinner Party
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.
Poet Laura: Difficult to Forecast
While Tropical Storm Laura heats up in the Atlantic, we add this poem to our Poet Laura collection of “poems about Lauras.”
The Book of Delights Book Club: Listening by the Lake
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The Book of Delights Book Club: Simply Called Sharing What We Love
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.
The Book of Delights Book Club: High Five from Strangers
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.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Zoom Pandemic Edition
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.