We’ve been celebrating the color red here this month at Tweetspeak, so red has been a bit on my mind.
The Poet’s Life
A hilarious look at what poets really do.
Poet, Where Did You Get that Red?
What is red? Red is Miracle, talisman and charm.
Journey Into Poetry: Will Willingham
Here at T. S. Poetry, nothing could make us happier than when a person discovers poems.
Lace Under the Stars
It was another Twitter poetry party, and the poetic lines just glistened.
Coming Home to Red
I was talking about words like a painter might talk about primary colors.
A Sonnet’s Unlikely Resolution: John Milton On His Blindness
One of the greatest poets who ever lived worries that his poetry is not good enough.
Alan Shapiro’s “Night of the Republic”
Poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk)
Tania Runyan’s “A Thousand Vessels”
A poetry review of A Thousand Vessels.
Dave Malone’s “Under the Sycamore”
Quick: name a contemporary love poem.
Every Day Poems is Now on Twitter
Every Day Poems is now on Twitter. Join us?
Rumors of a Blue Geography
It was another Twitter Poetry party, and this one started with a few rumors.
My Last Villanelle
I admire a well-executed villanelle in the same way I admire a Baroque Tromp-l’oeil ceiling
A Top 10 Poetry Christmas List
What’s on your poetry Christmas list?
I See You in There: the Villanelle
Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange
Anna of the Russias
Akhmatova herself should not be forgotten
Stories of the Bees: Bee Poems
At the Twitter poetry party, we got into bees and moons and ants and rosaries and all manner of things
Twitter Party Tonight: Write with Anne Overstreet
Tonight, September 20, at 9 pm EST, please join us for an evening of improv poetry with Anne M. Doe Overstreet. Here is our standard explanation of a Twitter poetry party 🙂 : The rules are simple because there aren’t any. Well, maybe one (the hashtag). We announce a Twitter Party date and time; party […]
Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”
From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]
The Kingdom Comes III
Below are five additional poems from our recent poetry jam on Twitter. I call these our Kansas phase. All prompts came from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. The Kingdom Comes III By @llbarkat, @SandraHeskaKing, @gyoung9751, @jestes, @Doallas, @jejpoet, @CeliaNickel1, @togetherforgood, @PensieveRobin, @kellysauer, @sethhaines, @theeagleacademy, @mdgoodyear, and @elizabethesther. Edited by @gyoung9751. I came to Kansas […]