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A Ticket to National Poetry Month: Twitter Poetry Party

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

National Poetry Month starts Monday. Tweetspeak will be your go-to place for tickets to the best in poetry all month long. Your first ticket is one of our favorites: Tweetspeak will host a Twitter Poetry Party on Thursday, from 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Twitter poetry

The Poetics of Learning (and Loving) Language

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

The earthy poetry of Pablo Neruda hands me words I’ve never heard, but that make perfect and instant sense, words I was looking for without knowing.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

Breaking poetry lines on Twitter, Freud on daydreams and creativity, the best of the best in staff-pick bookshelves. It’s This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.

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

Poetry Classroom: My Daughter’s Hair

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Red Poetry by Sonia Joie

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Tania Runyan. Today’s poem will leave you wanting red.

Filed Under: Blog, color poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom

The Collaborative Pantoum (A Writing Prompt)

By Seth Haines 30 Comments

The pantoum is a metaphor, an artistic expression of cooperation, and the perfect poetic medium for artistic collaboration. Seth Haines invites you to join with other poets in a collaborative pantoum in the comments.

Filed Under: Blog, Pantoum, poetry, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

SNOW: a poem by James Longenbach

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SNOW: a poem by James Longenbach

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.

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Poetry Classroom: Sestina for Brood XIII

By Tania Runyan 9 Comments

We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises. Up today? A sestina.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Sestina, writer's group resources

Journey into Poetry: Amber Haines

By Amber Haines 18 Comments

Poetry acknowledged invisible things, the things that haunt us. Amber Haines shares her journey into poetry.

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Image-ine: Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen

By Maureen Doallas 8 Comments

Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen

Maureen Doallas pairs her poem ‘A Ladder Our Boat’ with Holly Friesen’s ‘Warrior Canoe’ in our latest Image-ine feature.

Filed Under: Art, Image-ine, poetry

National Poetry Month: poemcrazy (Book Club Announcement)

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

poemcrazy

Join us for our next book club title, ‘poemcrazy’ by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, just in time for National Poetry Month.

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Poetry at Work: How to Recognize a Poet at Work

By Glynn Young 21 Comments

A secretary at work once stopped me outside my office. “People are worried about you, ” she said. “Me?” I asked. “Why?” “You’re walking the hallways, mumbling to yourself. People are noticing.” I stared for a moment, and then I understood. “I’m writing a speech, ” I said. “It’s a restless activity for me. I […]

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Poetry Classroom: The Goldfish Pond

By Tania Runyan 23 Comments

Poetry Classroom Goldfish Pond

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan. Up today, the innocence and wisdom of the goldfish pond.

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Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel

By Kathryn Neel 16 Comments

“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry Classroom: Life Outside

By Tania Runyan 8 Comments

Life Outside poem

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan, author of A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight.

Filed Under: Adam and Eve Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom

WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup on the Prairie

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

We round up another month of WordCandy quotes, poetry, photos with our Sweet Bloggers.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, WordCandy

Poetry at Work: Beauty in the Workplace

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Few associate our work with beauty. It’s one of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, we fail to see poetry at work. No beauty, no poetry.

Filed Under: article, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work

5 Great Ways for How to Write a Pantoum

By L.L. Barkat 16 Comments

Pantoum Sea Urchins by Pink Sherbet Photography

Here are five great ways to write a pantoum. You weren’t looking for anything but great ways, right?

Filed Under: Blog, Pantoum, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

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