What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).
A Poetry Dare for National Poetry Month
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining in our first ever large group Poetry Dare. Read a poem a day with us, with the daily offerings from Every Day Poems or a choose a poet to read for the month.
Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets
We’re featuring Twitter poetry today, ten of our favorite short poems written on our recent titles including Poetry at Work, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree, How to Read a Poem and our latest title, Love, Etc.
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The Muppets take selfies, how Twitter can help you write better sentences, death by poetry and what Gertrude Stein finds most exciting. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Living Inside Your Breath
What’s it like to live in a room created with one’s own breath? Join us for a look at how we make our lives in this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.
Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets
Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” It’s Twitter Poetry. Maybe it didn’t even mean to be a poem, but it’s a poetic thing all the same. It’s a way of using words well.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Tears and the Ice Queen
Through Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Ice Queen, Rebecca Solnit shares the healing power and warmth of tears. Join us for this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Bodies, Betrayal and Love
We’re discussing Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, this week considering how pain is a necessary means to retain a sense of one’s very self.
Top Ten Poetic Tweets: Moon Poems Edition
To help us in our quest to put poetry on the moon, we put out a call on Twitter for moon poems. Here are 10 of our favorites.
Top Ten Songs to Send You to the Moon (Moon Songs Playlist)
The moon, with its silent glow and deep mystery, is the locus of many a love song. Give our “To the Moon” moon songs playlist a try for poetic inspiration.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: We Tell Ourselves Stories
In The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit writes that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In this week’s book club, we discuss the power of story. Join us.
Top 10 Chocolate Quotes
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve put together a lovely gold-lined sampler box of delicious chocolate quotes to share with your chocolate-loving love.
7 Chocolate Poems for Your Love (of Chocolate)
Good love poems aren’t always about love. Sometimes, they are about chocolate (its own kind of love). Try this collection of rich, dark chocolate poems.
Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets
Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” Maybe it didn’t even mean to be a poem, but it’s a poetic thing all the same. It’s a way of using words well. Here are ten of the best poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks.
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The worst state to borrow books for fictional children, what memoir is not, revising everything from poetry to the NSA. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Book Club Announcement: The Faraway Nearby (Rebecca Solnit)
Join us for our next book club, discussing The Faraway Nearby. We’ll can apricots, wear shoes made of ice, follow Frankenstein’s journey, fly with the swan man, and wander the labyrinth only to reach our center and return to our beginnings.
Top 10 Quotes from T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
What better place to start reading T. S. Eliot than “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? To break it down, we start with 10 great quotes plus the whole poem.
Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Layoffs and Restructuring
What could be less poetic than corporate restructuring? In this week’s discussion of Glynn Young’s Poetry at Work, we consider the poetry of layoffs.
Top Ten Tweets (and a thousand other things) from Poetry at Work Day
From newsrooms to libraries, from the Scottish parliament to the coffee shop, Poetry at Work Day was celebrated around the world. Here are our highlights.
Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Beauty in the Workplace
In Poetry at Work, Glynn Young asks if work can have beauty. Some work seems to be the very spot where beauty expired. And yet, it’s there, if one looks.