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Celebrate! It’s Poetry at Work Day 2016!

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

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Poetry is in all work, speaking to us, singing to us. Download our resources, and come, celebrate Poetry at Work Day 2016 with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Poems, poetry and business, Poetry at Home, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day, poetry news, work poems

T.S. Eliot at the British Library, Part 2

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

Collecting and annotating the poetry of a writer like T.S. Eliot is fraught with challenges and difficulties, not the least reason being Eliot himself editing his poems over time, or manuscripts of the same poem with variations. Listen to two editors who described the challenge at a British Library presentation.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Libraries, Poems, poetry, poetry news, Poets, T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot at the British Library, Part 1

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

At the British Library, the editors of a new edition of the poems of T.S. Eliot discuss the poet and his work.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry news, Poets, T.S. Eliot

Poetry for Life: Transport It—on Seattle Buses

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Seattle’s Poetry on Buses has been sharing poems with King County public transit riders since 1992. It’s a great example of “Poetry for Life.”

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry for Life, poetry news, Travel Poems

Poets and Poems: Claudia Rankine and “Citizen”

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

The poems by Claudia Rankine in “Citizen” startle and confront. They challenge ways of being, thought, interactions between people. And what all of this means in the context of skin color.

Filed Under: Black Poets, book reviews, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Willie Perdomo and Saeed Jones

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Two finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, Willie Perdomo and Saeed Jones, have produced poems of music, remembrance and pain.

Filed Under: article, Black Poets, Blog, book reviews, Books, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Christian Wiman and “Once in the West”

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Christian Wiman grew up in West Texas, and the poems of his “Once in the West” reflect that upbringing and geography.

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Poets and Poems: Jake Adam York and “Abide”

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Published posthumously, “Abide” is Jake Adam York’s continued memorial to the 126 people who died from 1954 to 1968 in the civil rights movement.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, book reviews, Books, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: David Harsent and “Fire Songs”

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

“Fire Songs” by David Harsent, winner of the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize for best poetry collection in the U.K., is poetry at its most stunning and arresting.

Filed Under: Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poets and Poems: Hugo Williams and “I Knew the Bride”

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

British poet Hugo Williams has written a painful and beautiful collection of poems with “I Knew the Bride.” These are poems with the immediacy of mortality.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Today is Poetry at Work Day!

By Glynn Young 19 Comments

Today is Poetry at Work Day, and Tweetspeak Poetry, and its co-sponsors Slice Magazine and Scratch Magazine, invite you to celebrate the day with us.

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The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Maya Angelou: The Poetry and Life of Reinvention

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Maya Angelou-You May Have the Grace

Maya Angelou was an unlikely candidate for literary success. But she reinvented herself, more than once.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Hope Poems, Humanity Poems, Maya Angelou, Poems, poetry, poetry news, Poets

It’s Poetry at Work Day!

By Glynn Young 42 Comments

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It’s Poetry at Work Day, and Tweetspeak Poetry has an array of resources to help you find the poetry in your work and in your workplace — and a giveaway!

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Chocolate sells books, poetry in the Windsor knot, the most famous book in South Dakota, and where money and writing collide: It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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Street photography, Jane Austen summer camp, what poetry, science and Twinkies have in common. It’s this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks: The Twinkie Edition.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry at Work: The Work of a Poet Laureate

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Ava Leavell Haymon was recently named Louisiana’s poet laureate. Walter Bargen, a former poet laureate for Missouri, has some insights into what that means.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry at Work Day, Done Good

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

We celebrated the first Poetry at Work Day all a-Twitter with work poems. A few highlights from the day.

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Poetry at Work Day: Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Work happens everywhere. So does poetry. It’s time to put the two together and see what happens.

Filed Under: article, Poetry at Work, poetry news, work poems

Tweetspeak Exclusive: Yet Another Emily Dickinson Daguerreotype Discovered

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The recent discovery of a third daguerreotype of Victorian-era poet Emily Dickinson has historians scratching their heads.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, poetry, poetry humor, poetry news

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