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Poet Laura: The Beats, National Poetry Month, and Earth Day

By Sandra Fox Murphy 5 Comments

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Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, finds common ground with the Beat poets, National Poetry Month and Earth Day.

Filed Under: Beat Poets, Blog, National Poetry Month, Poet Laura, Poetic Earth Month, Smiles Laughter Joys

National Poetry Month Is Here + Prompt!

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

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National Poetry Month Is here! What are your plans? We’d love to help you find what you need to make it the best.

Filed Under: article, Blog, National Poetry Month

Happy National Poetry Month—Share Your Poems!

By T.S. Poetry 18 Comments

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Happy National Poetry Month, friends. Share your poems here.

Filed Under: article, Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

National Poetry Month: Mischief Café Prompt

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We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with an invitation to The Mischief Café. Join us with cinnamon toast, tea, and poem-writing to get the party started!

Filed Under: Mischief Café, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

National Poetry Month Book Giveaway—Tell Us Your Personal Poetry Story to Enter!

By T.S. Poetry 49 Comments

How to Write a Poem How to Read a Poem How to Write a Form Poem Book Trio Giveaway

You could win two books from the popular “How To” trio, when you tell us your poetry story. You can tell it in prose or poetry. We might even ask to publish it!

Filed Under: Blog, Give Poetry, How to Write a Form Poem, How to Write a Poem

Road Trip!—Great Poets Read for National Poetry Month

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

Midwest Missouri Bluffs Road Trip Poems

Take a poetic trip with this fine group of talented poets—in a capstone evening reading event for National Poetry Month. Bring your travel mug and keys!

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, National Poetry Month

Poet Laura: National Poetry Month

By Laura Boggess 4 Comments

Purple, white and yellow blooms

As Spring blooms, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, is finding floral and poetic awakening in the garden just in time for National Poetry Month.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Nature Poems, Poet Laura

National Poetry Month: How to Write a Form Poem!

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

How to Write a Form Poem Porch

Looking for a wonderful book to inspire you this National Poetry Month? Try out ‘How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms.’

Filed Under: Blog, How to Write a Form Poem, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light

By Tania Runyan 20 Comments

Gatsby Kindle on Table

This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Classic Books, English Teaching Resources, National Poetry Month, Patron Only

National Poetry Month Group Dare: Create a 30-Day Poetry Journal

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poetry on the Menu Poetry Challenge

Celebrate National Poetry Month and Poetic Earth Month with us with a brand new Poetry Dare: Create a 30-day visual poetry journal using poems from Poetry on the Menu or Earth to Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetic Earth Month

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and a Stolen Earth + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Tony Hoagland Real Estate

Tony Hoagland writes words he cannot find, and plays to our baser instincts to call us to greater things in search of a stolen earth.

Filed Under: Blog, Ecopoetry, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and the Body + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

National Poetry Month Tony Hoagland golden boat

Poems, perhaps more especially now the ones that talk about bodies, have the means to calm and they make me grateful, like Hoagland, “for the lives I / never have to live again.”

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

National Poetry Month: Writing Down the Words from Tony Hoagland + Group Dare

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Tony Hoagland poetry broken glass

This National Poetry Month, we invite you to a group Poetry Dare, reading a single poet all month long and writing poems longhand or creating a collage inspired by the poems. LW Willingham leads the way, with Tony Hoagland.

Filed Under: National Poetry Month, Poetry Dare

Top 10 Totally Fun Teaching Ideas for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to School Hanging Mobile

You’ve got the whole month of April to celebrate National Poetry Month. We’ve got the cut ‘n color poets and top 10 teaching ideas—for you to make it the most fun and informative thirty days ever!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week—National Poetry Month!

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Take Your Poet to School Week For the past several years, we’ve provided cut ‘n color poets for grown-ups, to take to work in July. Sometimes, kids borrowed them. And, over time, we heard from librarians and classroom teachers: “We want kids to have the chance to take these to school.” But nobody wanted to […]

5 Ways to Jazz it With Jewels (and Roses) for National Poetry Month

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Jewels on a Leaf National Poetry Month

Why should National Poetry Month be oh-so-predictable? Here are 5 sparkling ways to add a little shine to April.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month Dare: Commit ‘The Stolen Child’ by W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

yeats fairy land stolen child

Join us in our National Poetry Month Dare as we memorize “The Stolen Child” by W. B. Yeats, complete with printable Faery Badges.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, National Poetry Month, poetry, Poetry Dare, W. B. Yeats

Celebrating National Poetry Month: The Joy of Poetry

By T.S. Poetry 29 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Yellow Flowers

Besides all the free National Poetry Month gifts and inspirational invitations, we’ve got a surprise we can’t wait to share with you. The Joy of Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Finding Inspiration, journey into poetry, National Poetry Month, Poetry for Life, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Top 5 Celebration Tools for National Poetry Month!

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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We’ve rounded up 5 great celebration tools for National Poetry Month—from awesome free coloring pages and the makings of a poets’ parade, to surprising writing tools, plus!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, poetry

National Poetry Month: Show Us Your (Poetry) Jeans

By T.S. Poetry 82 Comments

National Poetry Month Show Us Your Jeans

It’s National Poetry Month, and all month long, we want to see your poetry jeans. Get featured, shared, or even published in our e-book? It could happen.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Jeans Poems, National Poetry Month, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

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