Here are the next six poems taken from our recent TweetSpeak Poetry jam on Twitter. All the prompts were lines from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. The Kingdom Comes II By @llbarkat, @SandraHeskaKing, @gyoung9751, @jestes, @Doallas, @jejpoet, @CeliaNickel1, @togetherforgood, @PensieveRobin, @kellysauer, @sethhaines, @theeagleacademy, @mdgoodyear, and @elizabethesther. Edited by @gyoung9751. I sailed a galleon, a […]
The Kingdom Comes I
This past Tueday, TweetSpeak Poetry hosted another poetry jam on Twitter. Fourteen intrepid souls participated, jamming to the prompts from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. And the poet himself joined us, and at the end offered this observation: “The poetry-tweet-jam is a thing like no other. An exquisite corpse on ritalin. Nice invention.” We […]
Twitter Party TONIGHT, Tuesday, 9 pm EST
At this month’s Twitter poetry party, you’ll get the chance to write with poet John Estes.
Anne Overstreet: Influences and Faith
In June, poet Anne Overstreet published her first collection of poems, entitled Delicate Machinery Suspended: Poems. It is about memory and faith, affection and love, work done and work done well, and even playfulness. The poems are about a life observed, but also a life to come. It’s a beautiful work.
The Cinnamon Beetle 5
Below are five poems and five fragments pulled from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 4
Our recent Twitter poetry party swirled around oceans and ashes, a drive down side roads, the telephone and how something as mundane as burning the toast becomes something else again.
The Village Watched: A Random Act of Poetry
There were so many great conversations, visual and verbal, offered up for this month’s collaborative prompt between The High Calling’s PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry.
Let’s Talk in Pictures
The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.
The Cinnamon Beetle 3
We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Pick Up Six—Or How One Poet Teases Another
I met him by email, and before I knew what was happening, James Cummins had challenged me to a game of six. Six words he chose, which I was charged to use as end-words in a sestina.
My Sestina is a Space Six-Shooter
My favorite poetic form, the sestina, gives me space to explore implication.
The Cinnamon Beetle 2
Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle
Somehow, Legos, cinnamon beetles, tattoos and open windows became the focus of the early part of our Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 5
Below are the final five poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Anne Overstreet’s “Delicate Machinery Suspended”
This collection, Overstreet’s first, displays a command of language, style and content that is deeply affecting. You are watching a series of scenes filmed with the eye of an artist.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 4
Something unusual happened with this group during the Twitter poetry party; you’ll see it in the last two poems.
Write Your First Sestina: It’s a Matter of Pride
The sestina, like a song, helps us say what we want to say without really saying it.
John Estes Poetry Readings
In May, we reviewed Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes here at TweetSpeak. He’s a fine poet, and we’re rather enthusiastic about his new collection. John is doing a reading tour. If you happen to be in Colorado, Kansas or Nebraska, you might have an opportunity to hear him read from Kingdom Comes. Here’s the […]
Alice and the Chinese Jar 3
Below are three additional poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 2
We have three more poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.