• Home
  • Poetry Prompts
  • For Writers
  • Daily Poem-Subscribe! ✨
  • Teaching Tools
  • Free Stuff + BOOKS
  • Patron Love

By Heart: ‘Some One’ + New Walt Whitman Challenge

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

When a poem knocks, you open. Join Megan Willome as she learns Walter de la Mare’s creepy “Some One” By Heart, just in time for Halloween.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Childhood Poems, Halloween Poems

Poetry Prompt: The Female Monster

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she takes a look at vampires and the other monsters, including the dreaded lamia. And join us for a poetry prompt — if you dare.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, John Keats, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Vampire Poems, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetry Prompt: Mystery Poems for Halloween

By Callie Feyen 18 Comments

What's the difference between mystery and fear?

What’s the difference between mystery and fear? Join Callie Feyen as she discusses trying to create mystery poems from what makes us afraid.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poe, Rilke, and Our Black Cat

By Glynn Young 16 Comments

Halloween black cat

This Halloween, your black cat can be the instrument of vengeance in the Poe story, or the amber-eyed feline in the poem by Rilke. Or it can be like Kiddy.

Filed Under: Animal Poems, article, Cat Poems, Halloween Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Poets

Day of the Dead: Skeletons, Stories, Songs, Poetry

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Celebrate Day of the Dead with skeletons, calaveras poems, and children’s books. Best enjoyed with a side of sweet skull cakes.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Halloween Poems, Latin American Poetry

Monster II: Halloween Prompt

By Heather Eure 5 Comments

Pumpkin candle monster halloween prompt

Halloween is the perfect time to explore a little bit of the monster in all of us. Join us and write some Halloween-inspired poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

4 Spooky Tips for Writing a Halloween Poem

By Tania Runyan 16 Comments

How to write a spooky halloween poem - cloudy moon

Get ready for the spookiest Halloween yet with these great tips for writing a Halloween poem from Tania Runyan.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, Poems, Spooky Poems

Top 10 Spooky Poems for Halloween

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top 10 Spooky Poems for Halloween

It’s time to get your poetry spook on. Enjoy 10 (plus 2 bonus spooks) spooky Halloween poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Spooky Poems

Take How to Read a Poem

Get the Introduction, the Billy Collins poem, and Chapter 1

get the sample now

Welcome to Tweetspeak

New to Tweetspeak Poetry? Start here, in The Mischief Café. You're a regular? Check out our February Menu.

Keep the World Poetic

❤️

Welcome a little patron love, when you help keep the world thoughtful and poetic.

5 FREE POETRY PROMPTS

Get 5 FREE inbox poetry prompts from the popular book How to Write a Poem

Join the Poetry Club

Join the poetry club, when you become a subscriber to Every Day Poems ✨

The classic—Now a Graphic Novel!

"Stunning, heartbreaking, and relevant illustrations"

Callie Feyen, teacher

read a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper

meet The Yellow Wallpaper characters

Recent Comments

  • Megan Willome on By Heart: ‘Blessing the Boats’ + New Elizabeth Bishop Challenge
  • Sandra Heska King on By Heart: ‘Blessing the Boats’ + New Elizabeth Bishop Challenge
  • The Silver Chair Book Club: Horrible Errors of Childhood | on Difficult Conversations Pod Club: On Being’s “The Art of Peace” with John Paul Lederach
  • The Silver Chair Book Club: The Darkness Around Us Is Deep | on Difficult Conversations Pod Club: On Being’s “The Art of Peace” with John Paul Lederach

Featured In

We're happy to have been featured in...

The Huffington Post

The Paris Review

The New York Observer

Tumblr Book News

Join Tweetspeak Poetry

Categories

Explore Work From Black Poets

Learn to Write Form Poems

How to Write an Acrostic

How to Write a Ballad

How to Write a Catalog Poem

How to Write a Ghazal

How to Write a Haiku

How to Write an Ode

How to Write a Pantoum

How to Write a Rondeau

How to Write a Sestina

How to Write a Sonnet

How to Write a Villanelle

Free Printable Poet Bios

Browse all poet bios now

Shakespeare Resources

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18

Common Core Picture Poems: Sonnet 73

Sonnet 104 Annotated

Sonnet 116 Annotated

Character Analysis: Romeo and Juliet

Character Analysis: Was Hamlet Sane or Insane?

Why Does Hamlet Wait to Kill the King?

10 Fun Shakespeare Resources

About Shakespeare: Poet and Playwright

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

See all 154 Shakespeare sonnets in our Shakespeare Library!

About Us

  • • Generous-Annual Theme 2021
  • • Our Story
  • • Meet Our Team
  • • Literary Citizenship
  • • Poet Laura
  • • Poetry for Life: The 5 Vital Approaches
  • • T. S. Poetry Press – All Books
  • • Contact Us

Write With Us

  • • 5 FREE Poetry Prompts-Inbox Delivery
  • • 30 Days to Richer Writing Workshop
  • • How to Write Form Poems-Infographics
  • • Poetry Club Tea Date
  • • Poetry Prompts
  • • Submissions

Read With Us

  • • All Our Books
  • • Best Love Poetry
  • • Book Club
  • • Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Library
  • • Children’s Book Club
  • • Every Day Poems
  • • Literacy Extras
  • • Literary Analysis
  • • Poems to Listen By: Audio Series
  • • Poets and Poems
  • • VerseWrights Journal
  • • William Blake Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Shakespeare Sonnet Library
  • • 50 States Projects

Celebrate With Us

  • • Poem on Your Pillow Day
  • • Poetic Earth Month
  • • Poet in a Cupcake Day
  • • Poetry at Work Day
  • • Random Acts of Poetry Day
  • • Take Your Poet to School Week
  • • Take Your Poet to Work Day

Gift Ideas

  • • Give the Gift of Every Day Poems
  • • Our Shop
  • • Everybody Loves a Book!

Connect

  • • Donate
  • • Blog Buttons
  • • By Heart
  • • Shop for Tweetspeak Fun Stuff

Copyright © 2021 Tweetspeak Poetry · Site by The Willingham Enterprise · FAQ & Disclosure