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The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Beverly Cleary’s 100th birthday, using your hands to help your head, Ohio’s new poet laureate and radiologist in chief. Our Top 10 Poetic Picks is back.

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

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Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

The Best in Poetry Top Ten Poetic Picks

How awe makes us more generous, how rhythm can help dyslexic kids read, and how reading Ginsberg might get you fired. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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Writing conferences pert’near South Dakota, making carrots into clarinets, art you can’t see unless it’s raining. It has to be our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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Writing your way to a better life, Langston doodles, literary restaurant reviews and becoming mermaids. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Best in Poetry Top Ten Poetic Picks

Toni Morrison finally reads ‘Beloved.’ You might be too smart to write. Why productivity might be killing you. Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Top 10 All-Time Posts at Tweetspeak Poetry

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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We have no super-secret algorithms but through a process that’s one part data, one part intuition, one part special sauce, we’ve gathered the 10 most popular posts in the Tweetspeak archives (from all time).

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Top Ten “Dip into Poetry” Lines

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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We’ve been taking a daily “dip into poetry” for the last month or so. Come discover the power of a line in our Top Ten Dip into Poetry Lines.

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Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Ever wonder what we’re reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Browse our Top Ten Posts from the last month (or so) and find out.

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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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Top 10 Tips for a Summer Staycation

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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You deserve a vacation. And we say you should give yourself one. Only don’t leave home. Try these ten tips for a great summer staycation.

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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The literary novel might be dead, how to get Stephen King’s royalties, wrestling Ulysses and haiku-izing your status update. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).

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The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks + Emily

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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Artful chocolate, famous punk authors, poetry in the supermarket, and how to not write a novel. It’s the best in poetry: our monthly Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Top 10 Best Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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We don’t want you to be caught poem-less on Poem in Your Pocket Day. Choose one of these best 10 short poems to keep with you all day.

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Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).

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This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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The worst state to borrow books for fictional children, what memoir is not, revising everything from poetry to the NSA. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Get Featured in Our How to Read a Poem Top 10!

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Would you like to get featured in some of our upcoming How to Read a Poem Top 10s? Tweet your ideas, your poems, or your pictures to @tspoetry.

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Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so). Featuring Claire Burge, Lakin Easterling, Daniel Sperry, Poets House and more.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Did Jane Austen play video games? Did William Carlos Williams really eat the plums? Did Ben Franklin think flying was useful? It’s another week of the best in poetry and poetic things: Our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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