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Poet Laura: The Beats, National Poetry Month, and Earth Day

By Sandra Fox Murphy 5 Comments

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Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, finds common ground with the Beat poets, National Poetry Month and Earth Day.

Filed Under: Beat Poets, Blog, National Poetry Month, Poet Laura, Poetic Earth Month, Smiles Laughter Joys

National Poetry Month Is Here + Prompt!

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

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National Poetry Month Is here! What are your plans? We’d love to help you find what you need to make it the best.

Filed Under: article, Blog, National Poetry Month

Poet Laura: Possibilities

By Michelle Rinaldi Ortega 2 Comments

dew dripping off leaf

This National Poetry Month, our Poet Laura, Michelle Ortega, postpones reading poems to chickens and considers other poetic possibilities.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura, Poetic Earth Month

Happy National Poetry Month—Share Your Poems!

By T.S. Poetry 18 Comments

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Happy National Poetry Month, friends. Share your poems here.

Filed Under: article, Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poet Laura: Happy Earth Day, and Don’t Miss the Trees for the Forest

By Dheepa R. Maturi 20 Comments

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For Earth Day, Dheepa R. Maturi, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, writes about the benefits of forest bathing and the perils of rainforest sleeping.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura, Tree Poems

National Poetry Month: Mischief Café Prompt

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

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We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with an invitation to The Mischief Café. Join us with cinnamon toast, tea, and poem-writing to get the party started!

Filed Under: Mischief Café, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Children’s Book Club: Children’s Poetry and What the Heart Knows

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

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Children’s poetry speaks to the child within us. Join us as we read Joyce Sidman’s “What the Heart Knows” for National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Poetry, National Poetry Month, poetry prompt

Poet Laura: Finding the Right Words + Ars Poetica

By Karen Paul Holmes 6 Comments

yellow buds in sunlight

As National Poetry Month begins, Karen Paul Holmes draws upon ars poetica and the work of Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky to face this difficult moment.

Filed Under: Blog, Deaf Republic, National Poetry Month, Poet Laura, poetry prompt

A Surprise Poetry Stories Collection—Plus, the Giveaway Winner!

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

Rainbow Yarn Poetry Stories Collection

We asked people to tell us their poetry stories in poems or prose for a National Poetry Month giveaway. Now we’ve put them in a collection as a surprise!

Filed Under: Blog, journey into poetry, National Poetry Month, writing prompt, writing prompts

Road Trip!—Great Poets Read for National Poetry Month

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

Midwest Missouri Bluffs Road Trip Poems

Take a poetic trip with this fine group of talented poets—in a capstone evening reading event for National Poetry Month. Bring your travel mug and keys!

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, National Poetry Month

Poet-a-Day: Meet Dheepa Maturi

By Tania Runyan 10 Comments

Indian classical dance

What if you have no words for a layered, mysterious experience? The ghazal might be just your form. It was for Dheepa Maturi, who speaks through dance.

Filed Under: Blog, Ghazal Poems, National Poetry Month, Poet-a-Day

Poet Laura: National Poetry Month

By Laura Boggess 4 Comments

Purple, white and yellow blooms

As Spring blooms, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, is finding floral and poetic awakening in the garden just in time for National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura

National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light

By Tania Runyan 20 Comments

Gatsby Kindle on Table

This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Classic Books, English Teaching Resources, National Poetry Month, Patron Only

It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day!

By Will Willingham Leave a Comment

KS pillow cases pink flowers

Tired after National Poetry Month? Relax with a soft, fluffy pillow and share the joy of poetry. It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry

National Poetry Month Group Dare: Create a 30-Day Poetry Journal

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poetry on the Menu Poetry Challenge

Celebrate National Poetry Month and Poetic Earth Month with us with a brand new Poetry Dare: Create a 30-day visual poetry journal using poems from Poetry on the Menu or Earth to Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetic Earth Month

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and a Stolen Earth + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Tony Hoagland Real Estate

Tony Hoagland writes words he cannot find, and plays to our baser instincts to call us to greater things in search of a stolen earth.

Filed Under: Blog, Ecopoetry, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

Poetry Prompt: Cupcake Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she and her young library patrons imagine up cupcakes to bake for their favorite Mother Goose and fairy tale characters.

Filed Under: Blog, Fairy Tale Poems, Fairytales, Mother Goose, National Poetry Month, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and the Body + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

National Poetry Month Tony Hoagland golden boat

Poems, perhaps more especially now the ones that talk about bodies, have the means to calm and they make me grateful, like Hoagland, “for the lives I / never have to live again.”

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

5 Delicious Ways to Celebrate Poet in a Cupcake Day!

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

cupcake-with-ts

Today is Poet in a Cupcake Day, a delicious way to cap off the first week of National Poetry Month and the last day of Take Your Poet to School Week.

Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Take Your Poet to School Week

National Poetry Month: Writing Down the Words from Tony Hoagland + Group Dare

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Tony Hoagland poetry broken glass

This National Poetry Month, we invite you to a group Poetry Dare, reading a single poet all month long and writing poems longhand or creating a collage inspired by the poems. LW Willingham leads the way, with Tony Hoagland.

Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Poetry Dare

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