There is something about home that bestows a sense of peace, comfort, and belonging. Home sustains us. Walk through the door after a long day and inhale. It smells familiar, like a favorite sweater. Come on over to our house for Photo Prompts: An Ode to Home. It’s Photo Play day!
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Poetry Date: Sisters Read Tolkien and One Wears Dagger
Plan a poetry date with a friend, sibling, co-worker, lover. Choose a poet, a venue, a snack or a drink, and read to each other. Today’s date: Tolkien!
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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.
Top Ten Posts of 2013 at Tweetspeak Poetry
As we turn the page to 2014, we’re playing back the most popular posts at Tweetspeak Poetry of 2013. Not surprisingly, these posts reflected our commitment to play, learn, and grow.
Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)
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.
Night Poetry: Darkness and Villanelle Poems
Try your hand at a night poem that easily captures the ambiguity of darkness, simply by virtue of its form.
Cat Poetry: Funny Poems by Cats
Cat poems are sometimes funny poems. Especially if the cat is the one who wrote them! Come now, be the cat.
Top Ten Reasons to be a Tweetspeak Tugboat
Want to help Tweetspeak Poetry keep providing great content? Our Top Ten Reasons to be a Tweetspeak Tugboat Supporter.
Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)
What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so). Featuring Glynn Young, Charity Singleton Craig, The Unknown Contributor, Julie L. Moore, Nancy Franson, and more.
Ghazal Poetry: Do the Twist Prompt
Ghazal poetry sometimes asks the big questions. Who am I? Why am I here? And, for that matter, why are you?
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Emily Dickinson’s pickup lines, op-ed poetry, why you should draw with your 4-year-old. It’s a brand new week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Best Tattoo Songs: Plus, Poetry
To kick off this month’s new Tattoo poetry theme, we gathered a list of the best tattoo songs we could find.
Bottled & Canned: Surprise Poetry Prompt
Have you ever opened a can, only to find something unexpected? Now’s your chance.
Teaching Tools
Helpful Teaching Tools! For librarians, teachers, group leaders—here are some teaching tools that will make it easier for you to plan your programs: Smart Fun Poets Coloring Book Our Take Your Poet to Work Day coloring book is made for grownups who appreciate a little smart fun. But you can borrow it for your classroom […]
Rock ‘n Roll Lyrics: Poetry Prompt
Get your lyrics on and write a rock ‘n roll poem. Read one too, with an SRV.
Tweetspeak Rocks (A Poetry Prompt)
We’re rocking this month at Tweetspeak! Come kick off this month’s “Rock and Roll” theme with a killer playlist and poetry prompt. Are you ready to rock?
The Mirror, The Storyteller (A Poetry Prompt)
In this week’s poetry prompt, we explore the stories reflected in the mirror. What story does your mirror tell?
Mirror, Mirage (A Poetry Prompt)
Can you tell the difference between mirror and mirage? Do you follow false reflections or true? This week, we’re exploring the poetry in mirages.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!
Realities Reflected (A Poetry Prompt)
The slanted, off-kilter fun-house bedroom emptied into a narrow a corridor, a hallway with mirrored walls. The lights were bright, fluorescent lit, and gave the general impression of being trapped inside that Bruce Lee classic, Enter the Dragon. My three boys and I stopped, noticed the hundreds of us-es that seemed to stretch around slight reflective […]