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.
Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January
Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.
32 Flavors And Then Some (a Phoenix Poetry Prompt)
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.
The Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116 (Annotated)
Annotations and exclamations on the poetry of William Shakespeare. First up in the Shakespeare Files: Sonnet 116.
Poetry Classroom: Directions
Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.
3 Star Trek Poems: Into Darkness
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.
Poetry Classroom: April Poem
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.
Poetry Classroom: The Wait
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with poet Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing plum-haired November.
Swans, Swallows, and the Phoenix (A Poetry Prompt)
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.
You Put Poetry on the Map!
From the Arabian peninsula to Seattle, we put poetry on the map this National Poetry Month.
Poetry Classroom: Walking Through the Dream
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing walking through the dream of a stranger.
Poetry Classroom: The Night Sky
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today we’re talking about the night sky as a time machine.
Twitter Poetry: Spinning Tickets for a Prayer Wheel
It was some Twitter poetry party. Get ready for a bank, some actors, fish, a scarlet waterfall, and bananas. Bananas?
Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Crisis
Poetry at work? Yes, look for it especially in a crisis. Finding the poetry will suggest the path forward.
Poetry Classroom: Only So Much a Poem
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today’s discussion: “There’s only so much a poem can hold.”
Poetry at Work: Dulce De Leche
When considering how to start a catered meal, it’s best to start with dessert, and seek the poetic details in the sweetness.
Poetry Classroom: The Hypochondriac’s Question
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”
Top 10 Poetry Sites to Follow for National Poetry Month
Who to follow for National Poetry Month (and maybe all year long). The best in poetry sites.
National Poetry Month: Phone Poets Project
Tweetspeak is teaming up with Patty Paine, of Diode Poetry Journal, to jumpstart a Phone Poets Project for National Poetry Month.
Poetry Classroom: The Burden of Too Much Meaning
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 […]