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Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ True North
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a poem based on Beth Copeland’s “True North.” Add a little fog & mystery along the way!
Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ The Turning
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a poem based on Maggie Smith’s “I Think of You, Eréndira.” What will turn in your poem?
Found in Translation: Gently May It Sing
Come on a French translation adventure that encourages us to be gentle with ourselves, thanks to a poem by Hélène Cardona.
5 Fun Ways to Play with Language!
Splashing around in words of any kind can help you form as a poet. Here are five easy ways to get splashing in a foreign language. Plus a poetry prompt!
Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ At the End
Get your favorite steep (or brew) & join us in writing a poem based on “[at the end]” by L.L. Barkat. Where will your “ending” lead us?
Poetry Prompt: Gathering Flowers
June is the time to begin gathering flowers and planting seeds. Come do so in a poem!
50 States of Generosity: Rhode Island
From coffee milk and johnny cakes to Lovecraft and Poe, Rhode Island is a fascinating place (and a home to gorgeous sites from the Gilded Age!).
Poetry Prompt: The Phoenix
The bottom line with the phoenix, regardless of its colors, is the bird’s rebirth or regeneration, most usually from the ashes of a fire that consumed the prior bird.
Free E-Book + Poetry Prompt!
A free e-book exclusive for Tweetspeak patrons, just in time to celebrate Poetic Earth Month!
50 States of Generosity: Iowa
From bridges to baseball, to fun food at the fair, Iowa’s got something for everyone. Sandra Heska King will meet you there.
Braving the Poem: Interview with Catherine Abbey Hodges
It was a full moon night when Catherine Abbey Hodges first began writing poetry. That brave moment has stayed with her. Come be inspired by Catherine’s poetry journey and insights!
Poet Laura: The Consequence of Cats
Go on the prowl this month with Sandra Fox Murphy, our 2025 Poet Laura, for some cat poem sleuthing and housecat bossing.
Making & Unmaking Meaning: Interview with Wendy Wisner
Wendy Wisner makes meaning in the prose world, while she sometimes tries to unmake it in the poetry world. Join her in “making less sense” with a fun poetry prompt!
Poet Laura: A Concert in the General Store
Sandra Fox Murphy writes about music’s intersections with time, place and poetry, travelling from a general store in West Virginia to the grackles on a power line in west Texas.
Announcement: The Sadbook Collections—Book 2!
Little Sadbook has a big heart—filled with musings, whimsy, sometimes puzzlement, occasional crises, and always art. Enjoy Book 2 of The Sadbook Collections!
50 States of Generosity: Montana
From wild flowers to mountains that tower, it’s Montana. Plus, catch an old photo of our very own Sandra Heska King’s hubby in Montana when he was a boy.
Creativity Prompt: Sanity Journal
Maybe you need a little pick-me-up? Enjoy this simple prompt from ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper Sanity Journal’ to get you on your way.
Poetry Prompt: In the Wild Secret Place
Using ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ as inspiration, come create your own wild, secret place poem.
50 States of Generosity: Idaho
Visiting Idaho was never on my bucket list. Until now. And when I go, I might want to try some “ice cream potatoes”—vanilla ice cream coated with cocoa and slathered with whipped cream to look like a sour cream topped baked potato. Or maybe I’ll try an Idaho Spud—a marshmallow covered in chocolate and coconut.