Karen Swallow Prior considers the poetry of the tree, from Joyce Kilmer’s ‘Trees’ to ‘The Dream of the Rood.’
Gold, Gold, Gold: She Got It
Our latest title, The Whipping Club, made the Oprah Summer Reading list last week. Such a golden moment! So we decided to give away some gold. The lucky winner for our gold giveaway? (And she worked hard, entering multiple poems). Ellen EtCetera is the winner, chosen at random. Now, Ellen, just tell us which gold […]
Oh, Annabel: Words of My Father
Daddy told stories of WWII, when he first started memorizing Poe. I’ll never know why he chose Edgar, but we loved hearing his voice recite as we traveled.
Oprah Summer Reads 14-k Gold Giveaway
Some books make the A List, and some books make the O List. In February, T.S. Poetry Press, known for poetry and memoirs, published its first novel, The Whipping Club by Deborah Henry. It is the story of a child placed for adoption, and years later, his birth parents learn that he wasn’t adopted as […]
Guaranteed Disease-Resistant
There was nothing like roses. I was addicted.
The Poet Who Wasn’t
Carlos Fuentes died last week, a writer with a poet’s heart who didn’t write poetry.
My “Poem-ography”
Who – what poems – would comprise your “poem-ography?”
The Rose Remembers
Human beings have long associated Roses with Remembrance.
Kid in the Candy Shop
Boy, did I find candy poems. I was the kid in the candy shop. I didn’t know what to buy with my nickel. So I spent 25 cents and bought five poems.
Guy Kawasaki Says to Use Poetry in Business
Rhyming, according to Kawasaki, is serious business.
Fields of Red 4
A (very) short primer on editing tweets from our Twitter poetry parties
The Writing Life: How to Be a Famous Author
The writing life should be simpler than this, right? No, it’s not easy, and it never will be. Because we want to be famous. And that’s good, and not.
The Unofficially Official List of Top Poetry Sites
When was the last time you saw a list for The Top Poetry Sites? Now it exists, right here.
From Blush to Fiery Passion
Seventeen poems were submitted for our February prompt of “red, ” and they ranged from a mere hint of blush to an all-out fiery passion of RED. (I’m still fanning myself.)
Red Whistles at the Wolf
We’ve been celebrating the color red here this month at Tweetspeak, so red has been a bit on my mind.
Coming Home to Red
I was talking about words like a painter might talk about primary colors.
Alan Shapiro’s “Night of the Republic”
Poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk)
Tania Runyan’s “A Thousand Vessels”
A poetry review of A Thousand Vessels.
Dave Malone’s “Under the Sycamore”
Quick: name a contemporary love poem.
Stanley Moss’s “God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike”
Now Moss has published what must stand as a testament to his career as a poet