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A Valentine’s Playlist

Tweetspeak is here for you. We have the best love poems (print one off and tuck it in your pocket–it might come in handy), we have a Funny Valentine’s Playlist if you need to break the ice, and we have the sweetest list of romantic songs. All you have to do is Play.

My Funny Valentine Playlist

By Seth Haines 16 Comments

We want you to have a happy Valentine’s Day tomorrow, and we’re here to help with a Valentine playlist of great love songs. A Funny Valentine Playlist.

That’s Amore: 10 of the Best Love Poems

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

Love’s big day is upon us, and we don’t want you to be without a good love poem, so we’ve gathered up a list of ten of our favorites. Maybe you have another you’d like to share in the comments?

Poetry Classroom: Passionate Shepherd to his Love

By Karen Swallow Prior 5 Comments

Even if you have not read Christopher Marlowe’s famous poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, ” you probably know its poetry anyway. Really.

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)

By Karen Swallow Prior 29 Comments

In this month’s poetry classroom, author and literature professor Karen Swallow Prior will be treating us to a discussion of classic love poetry—beginning with Shakespeare.

Poem: Ghost of Christmas Present

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

A poem for Christmas by L.L. Barkat: Ghost of Christmas Present.

The Anthologist: Pluck the Day

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

I scheduled a date with Paul Chowder on Friday. We were supposed to hang out and talk about Sara Teasdale. He’d been going on about how some poets spend too much time thinking about death, like going to a movie and just waiting for the credits, which my dad taught me are very interesting if you […]

National Poetry Month: Edgar Allan Poe

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Edgar Allan Poe published his 1st poetry collection in 1827, at 18 years old. A tendency to run up debts & gamble kept him in constant state of reinvention.