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It’s Take Your Poet to School Week!

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Take your Poet to School Week girl on swing

Join teachers, students and librarians around the globe to kick off National Poetry Month with the fun and delight of Take Your Poet to School Week, including our favorites, Talk Like a Poet Day and Poet in a Cupcake Day!

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Top 10 Totally Fun Teaching Ideas for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to School Hanging Mobile

You’ve got the whole month of April to celebrate National Poetry Month. We’ve got the cut ‘n color poets and top 10 teaching ideas—for you to make it the most fun and informative thirty days ever!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

A Publishing Opportunity for Our Patrons

By T.S. Poetry

Gorgeous Butterfly Ecochallenge

This National Poetry Month, we’re going to combine our 30 Days of poem-making with another organization’s effort: The Drawdown EcoChallenge. Here’s how to participate—and maybe get published.

Filed Under: Blog, Drawdown, National Poetry Month, Patron Publishing Opportunties, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Poetic Earth Month—30 Days, 30 Poems Challenge

By T.S. Poetry 262 Comments

Boy Rock Climbing

This April, join the Tweetspeak Community in a Poetic Earth Month 30 Days, 30 Poems Challenge! With two ways to take the challenge, it’s simple and soul-enriching. Choose one, or mix it up. Then tell the community what you’re doing, and share your poem-ing along the way.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetic Earth Month, Poetry Challenge, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

5 Ways to Jazz it With Jewels (and Roses) for National Poetry Month

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Jewels on a Leaf National Poetry Month

Why should National Poetry Month be oh-so-predictable? Here are 5 sparkling ways to add a little shine to April.

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National Poetry Month Dare: Commit ‘The Stolen Child’ by W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

yeats fairy land stolen child

Join us in our National Poetry Month Dare as we memorize “The Stolen Child” by W. B. Yeats, complete with printable Faery Badges.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, W. B. Yeats

Book Club Announcement: The Wild Swans

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Wild Swans book club announcement

Join us during National Poetry Month 2017 to read The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris and write poems to the fairy tale together.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, National Poetry Month, The Wild Swans

2015-2016 National Student Poets Share Their Passion for Poetry

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

sand formation -2015-2016 National Student Poets Share Their Passion for Poetry

Five National Student Poets share their passion for poetry in their own hometowns and beyond through workshops, readings, and literary programs.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month

Celebrating National Poetry Month: The Joy of Poetry

By T.S. Poetry 29 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Yellow Flowers

Besides all the free National Poetry Month gifts and inspirational invitations, we’ve got a surprise we can’t wait to share with you. The Joy of Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Finding Inspiration, journey into poetry, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

3 Cool Ways to Increase Your Poetry Reading

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

If poetry makes you a better writer and reader, maybe you should read more poetry. Use these three methods to increase your poetry reading.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, Read

Your Free Jeans Poems & Photos E-book and an Invitation!

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

National Poetry Month Jeans Poems and Jeans Photos Zipper

Last year, during National Poetry Month, you gave us your jeans. In poems and photos. Now we’re giving them back to you in free e-book form. Come get the collection, plus a special invitation!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Short Poems

De-Stress with Our Poetry Coloring Book!

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Peaceful Reeds De-stress

Coloring books can help reduce stress. And poetry can help reduce stress. So make your days stress-free with our new poetry coloring book.

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Free Poetry Coloring Book, National Poetry Month, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Top 5 Celebration Tools for National Poetry Month!

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

poetry activities National Poetry Month pink tulips

We’ve rounded up 5 great celebration tools for National Poetry Month—from awesome free coloring pages and the makings of a poets’ parade, to surprising writing tools, plus!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry

Casual E-Book Update

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

Jeans Poems and Photos Rivet

Just a quick update on the “Show Us Your Poetry Jeans” e-book project and a “reveal” about how poems and photos will be included in “Casual.”

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month

Top 10 Best Chicken Poems

By Will Willingham

Top 10 Chicken Poems

If Google search is any indication, the world is looking for chicken poetry. Here are 10 chicken poems to make the search easier. (Or at least more fun.)

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, National Poetry Month, National Poultry Month, poetry

National Poetry Month: Show Us Your (Poetry) Jeans

By T.S. Poetry 82 Comments

National Poetry Month Show Us Your Jeans

It’s National Poetry Month, and all month long, we want to see your poetry jeans. Get featured, shared, or even published in our e-book? It could happen.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Jeans Poems, National Poetry Month, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

It’s National Poultry Month!

By T.S. Poetry 66 Comments

National Poultry Month

Finally, it’s April. And we can start penning verse for National Poultry Month! Just another #smartfun opportunity from Tweetspeak Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, National Poultry Month, poetry humor

Top Ten National Poetry Month Books and Tools!

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

Best National Poetry Month Books and Tools Wood Fence

Looking for the best National Poetry Month books and tools? From Billy Collins to haiku, from sonnets to cinnamon & jealous poem stacks, this list entices!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “Interview with a Child”

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Wisława Szymborska Interview with a Child

The young Master in Wisława Szymborska’s “Interview with a Child” challenges us to reject the idea that things are only as they seem.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska

National Poetry Month Poetry Dare: Wisława Szymborska’s “A Speech at the Lost and Found”

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

umbrella Wisława Szymborska speech at the lost-and-found

When contemplating infinity, it’s helpful to have a small thing that can fit in our hand. Wisława Szymborska places a blue umbrella alongside the universe.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, Wislawa Szymborska

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