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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

top ten poetry picks

The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January

By Daniel Bowman 16 Comments

Poetry Ashes

Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.

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32 Flavors And Then Some (a Phoenix Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 8 Comments

Feathers

The phoenix is a classic theme in literature, poetry, and music. This week Seth Haines has a poetry prompt with the phoenix and Ani Difranco’s 32 Flavors.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, Poems, Swans Swallows Phoenix, Themed Writing Projects

The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

shakespeare files

Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files, Sonnets

Poetry Classroom: Directions

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Poetry Compass by Walt Stoneburner

Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.

Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

3 Star Trek Poems: Into Darkness

By Sara Barkat and Sonia Joie 3 Comments

Star Trek poems

In honor of the 2013 Trekkies high holy day (the debut of the new movie Into Darkness, opens May 16th), we’re featuring Star Trek poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Star Trek Poems, Student Writing, Villanelles, writing prompts

Poetry Classroom: April Poem

By Daniel Bowman 13 Comments

poetry fog by gmeaders_ch

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.

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Poetry Classroom: The Wait

By Daniel Bowman 11 Comments

Poetry Hair

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with poet Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing plum-haired November.

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Swans, Swallows, and the Phoenix (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 8 Comments

Seth Haines kicks off the month of May with a new poetic playlist on our Swans, Swallow, Phoenix theme, and a brand new poetry prompt to boot.

Filed Under: Bird Poems, Blog, Poems, poetry, Swans Swallows Phoenix, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

You Put Poetry on the Map!

By L.L. Barkat 16 Comments

Poetry on the Map Truett

From the Arabian peninsula to Seattle, we put poetry on the map this National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poems, poetry, visual poetry

Poetry Classroom: Walking Through the Dream

By Daniel Bowman 21 Comments

plum tree poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing walking through the dream of a stranger.

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Poetry Classroom: The Night Sky

By Paula J Lambert 17 Comments

Poetry Night Sky by Dicktay2000

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today we’re talking about the night sky as a time machine.

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Twitter Poetry: Spinning Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

It was some Twitter poetry party. Get ready for a bank, some actors, fish, a scarlet waterfall, and bananas. Bananas?

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Crisis

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Poetry at work? Yes, look for it especially in a crisis. Finding the poetry will suggest the path forward.

Filed Under: article, Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

Poetry Classroom: Only So Much a Poem

By Paula J Lambert 19 Comments

full poetry cup

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today’s discussion: “There’s only so much a poem can hold.”

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Poetry at Work: Dulce De Leche

By Monica Silva 8 Comments

When considering how to start a catered meal, it’s best to start with dessert, and seek the poetic details in the sweetness.

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Poetry Classroom: The Hypochondriac’s Question

By Paula J Lambert 12 Comments

Bird Cage Poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. Today’s poem “The Hypochondriac’s Question to the Woman with Synesthesia”

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Top 10 Poetry Sites to Follow for National Poetry Month

By Maureen Doallas 15 Comments

Top 10 Sites to Follow for National Poetry Month Duck in Golden Light

Who to follow for National Poetry Month (and maybe all year long). The best in poetry sites.

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National Poetry Month: Phone Poets Project

By L.L. Barkat 12 Comments

National Poetry Month Phone Poets

Tweetspeak is teaming up with Patty Paine, of Diode Poetry Journal, to jumpstart a Phone Poets Project for National Poetry Month.

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

Poetry Classroom: The Burden of Too Much Meaning

By Paula J Lambert 20 Comments

Poetry Strawberry Leaf

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—ask questions of Paula and each other, and write your own poems along the way. The Burden of Too Much Meaning for […]

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