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Love Knot: Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 19 Comments

love-red-ribbon-the-highwayman-love-knot

A single strand of dark red ribbon winds its way around the ebony locks of Bess, the innkeeper’s daughter, creating a love knot. Entwine a poetic knot of love this week and write your own clove-hitch of the heart.

Filed Under: Blog, Knots and Threads, love poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

More than a Broken Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Red Sky Leonard Cohen

Songwriter Leonard Cohen is also a poet, and in “Songs and Poems, ” he mixes song lyrics with poetry, suggesting there’s little difference.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, love poems, Music, Music Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Elizabeth Barrett Browning featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Teaching Resources, love poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Top 10 Best Pillow Poems

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Pillow Poems decorative pillow with petals

As Poem on Your Pillow Day approaches, we’ve rounded up 10 great Pillow Poems so you can bring the joy of poetry to someone you love.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Dream Poems, love poems, Pillow Poems, Poems, poetry

British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Girl reflection in window Carol Ann Duffy

British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the first woman to hold the post, writes powerful and beautiful poetry.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, Blog, Books, love poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetic Voices: Relationships – Dinah Dietrich and Diane Lockward

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Girl blowing snow poetic voices relationships

Poetry is often used to describe relationships, as recent collections by Dinah Dietrich and Diane Lockward show.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Plum Poems, Poems, Poetic Voices, poetry, Poets

“Unmarked,” by Dave Malone

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

Unmarked love poem by Dave Malone shareable graphic

Dave Malone contemplates all that remains unmarked by calendars in his love poem, Unmarked.

Filed Under: Blog, Dave Malone, love poems, love poetry, Video Poems

Poets and Poems: Donald Hall and “Selected Poems”

By Glynn Young 17 Comments

Donald Hall says he can’t write poetry any more. His new “Selected Poems” demonstrates the sufficiency of what he’s written.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, book reviews, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

“Tiny Machine,” by Dave Malone

By Dave Malone 3 Comments

Tiny Machine Love Poem by Dave Malone shareable graphic

What does the lover hold in her hand on Sundays? Tiny Machine, a beautiful love poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Dave Malone, love poems, love poetry, Videos

5 Great Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

5 Great Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud - by Tania Runyan |Tweetspeak Poetry

How can we read a poem aloud in a way that captures its essence? With these five tips, reading poetry aloud can be done with intentionality and confidence.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, poetry teaching resources

Twitter Party: Slivers of Plum at Midnight

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry’s most recent Twitter party resulted in ten poems about lemonade, lightning, bread, gears, a locomotive, and an equation — of bees.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, love poems, Moon poems, Night Poems, Plum Poems, Poems, poetry, Short Poems, Surreal Poems, Twitter poetry

10 Tempting Poems to Celebrate Poem on Your Pillow Day—and Cinco de Mayo to Boot

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

Kelly Sauer pillow cases pink flowers

This year Poem on Your Pillow Day falls on Cinco de Mayo. Take these 10 tempting poems to bed or to the festival!

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Poem on Your Pillow Day

Poets and Poems: Dave Malone’s “O: Love Poems from the Ozarks”

By Glynn Young 13 Comments

Poems from the Ozarks Horse and Girl

These love poems by Dave Malone are part of the geography of the Ozarks, and the interior geography of a profound, passionate love.

Filed Under: Books, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poems about writing, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

10 Luscious Love Poem Books for Your Valentine

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

Red Valentine Flower

Yes, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but there is still time to treat your Love to one or more of these luscious love poem books.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, love poems, love poetry, Valentine's Day

Write Your Own Shakespearean Sonnets: Juliet’s Aubade

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

write Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare sonnet

Sonnet about Romeo and Juliet? This is one you simply won’t want to miss. Then maybe try your hand at one of your own.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Mischief Cafe: San Francisco and Trouble Coffee

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Trouble Coffee Yosemite sign

From mind-reading cat ears, to Trouble Coffee in two locations, the San Francisco Mischief Café is full of adjustments.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Mischief Café, Sestina

Poets and Poems: Alexander Blok and “The Stranger”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poets and Poems: Alexander Blok and “The Stranger”

In his lifetime, Alexander Blok was considered one of the finest of all Russian poets. He still carries that accolade today.

Filed Under: book reviews, Classic Poetry, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Russian Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. Meet our final poet in this year’s collection, Sylvia Plath.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Sylvia Plath, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Villanelles

Poets and Poems: Marina Tsvetaeva and “My Poems”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Russian Poetry Pigeons in Park tweetspeakpoetry.com

Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) used love as a compass in her poetry, in the face of monumental tragedies she experienced in her country.

Filed Under: love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Russian Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Christina Rossetti

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Christina Rossetti Take Your Poet to Work

Victorian poet Christina Rossetti is dressed and ready to go to work with you on Take Your Poet to Work Day.

Filed Under: Christina Rossetti, love poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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