In our November book club, we’ll be getting into the mind of productivity expert Claire Burge with her new illustrated release, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.
The Tattoo’s Dark Side: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
We wrap up our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos considering the tattoo’s dark side with Kafka and Tony Hoagland.
Tattoo and Identity: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
This week in our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow we consider the tattoo and identity — the way a tattoo can broadcast one’s identity, and how it might seem to have the power to create it, impose it, even take it away.
A Tattoo Tells a Story: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
The tattoo has a story, and in many ways is a story. In our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow this week, we look a the tattoos’ stories and their scars.
What Do Tattoos Mean: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club
Tattoos are permanent and must, therefore, mean something more than “a picture on the skin.” Join our book club discussion on Dorothy Parker’s Elbow.
Book Club: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos
Whether one is inked from head to toe or repelled by the very notion of a tattoo, there’s no escaping that tattoos fascinate. Join us in September for a new book club selection, Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: lights and mysteries
Join us as we wrap up our discussion of ‘poemcrazy’ with woolly mammoth, vikings, and writing to save your life.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Open the Window
Poems and dreams gather fragments of our days and piece them back together in whimsical, even frightening ways. Join us for our latest ‘poemcrazy’ discussion.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Hi There Stars
Sometimes poetry is just begging not to be understood. In this week’s ‘poemcrazy’ book club installment, we’re invited to ‘not think, not understand.’
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Listening to Ourselves
We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together at Tweetspeak for National Poetry Month. This week, we talk about listening to ourselves.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: following words
We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together this month at Tweetspeak. Are you reading along?
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy (Book Club Announcement)
Join us for our next book club title, ‘poemcrazy’ by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, just in time for National Poetry Month.
The Novelist: Where Fiction Begins
In the end, the creative act can be misunderstood, and the creation seen for something other than what it is. LW Lindquist wraps up our book club discussion of L.L. Barkat’s The Novelist.
The Novelist: Fiction with Character(s)
Readers want to know who the various characters in The Novelist represent. LW Lindquist wants to know who the tea basket represents. Join us for week two of our book club discussion.
The Novelist: What’s the Big Idea in Fiction?
How long must you lie on the floor staring at the ceiling before you’re ready to write that story? We’re discussing The Novelist by L.L. Barkat in our new Tweetspeak Book Club. Come on in and join us.
Book Club Announcement: The Novelist
The Novelist is a book that can be read in a sitting or two (maybe three, if you’re having trouble finding your tea basket). We invite you to join us around the Tweetspeak coffee table for our latest book club beginning November 28.
Ordinary Genius: Rhythm, Rhyme and the Sonnet
Kim Addonizio says writing form poetry can teach you economy and structure and take you unexpected places. But what if you have no sense of rhythm? Can you still write a sonnet? LW Lindquist wraps up our Ordinary Genius book club this week with enough iambic pentameter to make you scream.
Ordinary Genius: Myths and Fairy Tales
Terrible things happen in fairy tales. Even in the watered-down Disney versions, stepmothers try to poison their stepdaughters, children are lost in the woods and captured to be eaten, young women are imprisoned in towers. LW Lindquist leads our latest book club discussion on Kim Addonizio’s Ordinary Genius.
Ordinary Genius: Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
By this time, I’m ready to ask the chicken question. I’ve been scratching around for an angle, and even as I type this, I don’t have one. But Kim Addonizio tells me I don’t have to know where I’m going when I start writing, and even goes so far as to say it might be […]
Ordinary Genius: Entering Poetry (part 2)
Poetry asks for your intelligence and spirit. It is hard work, but good work. Come along with Kim Addonizio and enter poetry by working on your lines…