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Tweetspeak Poetry Party, Part 2: Skywoman Braids Sweetgrass

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Stones in grass Braiding Sweetgrass

“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer provided the prompts for Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry party on Twitter. These are the final five poems.

Filed Under: article, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

Tweetspeak Poetry Party: Skywoman Braids Sweetgrass

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

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Tweetspeak Poetry’s recent poetry party on Twitter resulted in ten poems about Skywoman, braiding sweetgrass, trees, and a gift.

Filed Under: article, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

Children’s Book Club: “Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems”

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

S’more time! Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of a collection of camping poems called ‘Toasting Marshmallows’ by Kristine O’Connell George.

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Paul Kingsnorth: The Poetry of the Future Landscape

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Welsh River Paul Kingsnorth

The poetry of Paul Kingsnorth is continually looking at the landscape, the landscape of the future superimposed on the landscape of the past.

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Poets and Poems: David Whyte and “The Bell and the Blackbird”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Lagoon Reeds David Whyte

“The Bell and the Blackbird,” the new poetry collection by David Whyte, is full of surprises but retains Whyte’s trademark simplicity and depth.

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Poets and Poems: Mark Burrows and “The Chance for Home”

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To read “The Chance for Home” by Mark Burrows is to immerse oneself in the quiet beauty of memory, experience, reflection, and, ultimately, hope.

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Poets and Poems: Athena Kildegaard and “Course”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

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The poems of “Course” by Athena Kildegaard provide a kind of natural sanctuary, where one comes to watch and to listen to what the landscape has to say.

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Birthdays & Birthstones Poetry Prompt: A Rossetti List Poem

By Kortney Garrison 16 Comments

Rossetti Catalog Poem: Balloons

Come write poetry inspired by Christina Rossetti’s list poem “The Months” and see if you like how she describes your birthday month.

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Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner: Maria A. Esguerra

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We announce the winner of this year’s Poetry for Life Scholarship, Maria A. Esguerra.

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Regional Tour: Of Alligators and Everglades

By Sandra Heska King 7 Comments

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Sandra Heska King has all the adventure—and alligators—she could ever want right in her own backyard, in the Everglades.

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Holidays by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—And Happy Ones, to You!

By tspoetry 6 Comments

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We send our best wishes to you for the season and the year to come with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Holidays.”

Filed Under: Nature Poems, poetry, Winter Poems

Poets and Poems: Michelle Menting and “Leaves Surface Like Skin”

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Red Maple Leaf Michelle Menting

The poems of ‘Leaves Surface Like Skin” by Michelle Menting use the images and metaphors of nature to explore and explain the human condition.

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The First Poetry for Children: “Divine Emblems” by John Bunyan

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Boy kneeling Divine Emblems

In 1686, the English Puritan minister and writer John Bunyan published what we know today as “Divine Emblems,” the first book of poetry for children.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Childhood Poems, children, nature, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Regional Tour: Borrowed Time at the Maui Ocean Center

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Maui Ocean Center

A trip to Maui Ocean Center’s vast aquarium offers opportunity for Laurie Klein to contemplate how a place can envelop as well as imprint itself on the soul.

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Poetic Voices: Susan Lewis and Shanna Powlus Wheeler

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Frosty leaves Poetic Voices Lewis Wheeler

Susan Lewis develops a theme of uncertainty in “Heisenberg’s Salon”; Shanna Powlus Wheeler interprets childhood and memory in “Lo & Behold.”

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Jen Karetnick: Pondering the Often Invisible

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Seashore Jen Karetnick

In two new poetry collections, poet Jen Karetnick asks us to consider the reality behind what is often invisible, be it illness or climate change.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Fishing Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry reviews, Poets, Sea Poems

Coloring Page Poems: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By LW Willingham 6 Comments

Longfellow The Tide Rises coloring page - boat by seaside

Our coloring page poems series brings the fun stress relief of coloring pages and poetry together, today with Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.”

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, Sea Poems

Norman Nicholson: Poetry of Landscape and the Environment

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Norman Nicholson

British poet Norman Nicholson deserves to be remembered for his beautiful poems of the Cumbrian and western Lake District landscape.

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Profile of Photographer Pai-Shih Lee

By Charity Singleton Craig 8 Comments

Learn more about the man behind the camera of some of the most breathtaking images you’ll see featured at Tweetspeak Poetry, Taiwanese photographer Pai-Shih Lee.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Seamus Heaney

By LW Willingham 6 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

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