Join our Photo Play opportunity to explore our monthly poetry themes in a visual way (or write a poem, if you prefer!). First up: Doors & Passageways.
Literary Tours: Cassadaga Florida
Visit Cassadaga, a small Florida town that is a cross between Mayberry and The Twilight Zone, with a dash of Old West ghost town.
Poem Analysis: Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”
An evocative, insightful analysis of Sexton’s “Her Kind, ” from student writer Sara Barkat. Hold on to your hat!
Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets (The Polar Vortex Edition)
In this week’s Top Ten Poetic Tweets, we’re featuring Twitter poetry of the polar vortex, lines of snow, ice, wind and bitter cold as we shiver toward this weekend’s promised warmer temperatures.
Poetry at Work, The Book: Introduction Excerpt
Poetry at Work, the book, provides practical tools for altering work cultures and our approaches to everything from the business meeting to the business crisis.
Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of the Workspace
We begin our book club discussion of Glynn Young’s “Poetry at Work” with a look at The Poetry of the Workspace.
Be Bold! Your Creativity Needs It
Questioning and boldness are essential parts of your journey into greater creativity. Claire Burge challenges you to develop these skills.
Poets and Poems: Grace Schulman’s “Without a Claim”
Grace Schulman’s new collection of poems “Without a Claim” creates quiet repose in the face of discontinuity. Can poets and poems make sense of this?
Doors & Passageways: Playlist & Poetry Prompt
Listen to our new Doors & Passageways playlist, then write a doors or passageways poem, including a line of the lyrics if you like.
English Teaching Resources: Incidentally, That’s a Chiasmus
Our “Incidentally” column shares English Teaching Resources from a teacher who has worked the systems for almost 25 years. Up today? Chiasmus.
Literary Tours: Rex Hausmann’s Max-a-mal Exhibit at The Cody Center
Tweetspeak Literary Tours take us many places. This time we visit Rex Hausmann’s Max-a-mal Exhibit at The Cody Center on the grounds of Laity Lodge retreat center.
Top Ten Posts of 2013 at Tweetspeak Poetry
As we turn the page to 2014, we’re playing back the most popular posts at Tweetspeak Poetry of 2013. Not surprisingly, these posts reflected our commitment to play, learn, and grow.
New Years Poems: New Year’s Observation from the Bench
The Tweetspeak team offers our best wishes for a happy, creative, and prosperous new year, and a New Years poem to start your 2014.
Poets and Poems: Dave Malone and “View from the North Ten”
Poets and Poems considers Dave Malone’s View from the North Ten, which uses a Rothko painting to evoke what exists in the land and heart of the Ozarks.
Night Poetry: Stopping by Woods and Promises
Night poetry can be the poetry of promise. In the darkness, we can focus on what is most pressing, we can dream, we can make promises to ourselves or others
Image-ine Poetry: “Hot Sky” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave
Join Maureen Doallas in this Image-ine Poetry creative writing exercise based on “Hot Sky, ” a painting by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.
Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets
Sometimes, we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” A way of using words well. Here are the top 10 poetic tweets we’ve seen on Twitter lately.
Christmas Poems: Apology to My Mother at Christmas
Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday, and if your Christmas calls for a small apology, perhaps a Christmas poem would do.
Poetry at Work: Clement Moore and the Work of St. Nicholas
Clement Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” shows us poetry at work during Christmas both then and now.
Night Poetry: Acquainted with the Night
Night poetry can be the poetry of acquaintance. With the light narrowed, we pull in close to things that are near.