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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Poetry for doctors, music for Yeats, portraits from shredded letters for your love. Seth Haines has this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Kid in the Candy Shop

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Boy, did I find candy poems. I was the kid in the candy shop. I didn’t know what to buy with my nickel. So I spent 25 cents and bought five poems. 

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 20 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 5 Comments

The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.

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Rumors of Water: Voice

By Will Willingham 46 Comments

Perhaps cultivating a writer’s voice can be more about nourishing those things that give life to it: passions and a sense of place.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 25 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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It’s Here: 2 Cool Ways to Get Our Titles 1/2 Price!

By L.L. Barkat 9 Comments

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve got a special offer for April only: Get a secret coupon for 50% off any TS Poetry title of your choice (unlimited copies—great for bookclubs or gifts!).

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 15 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 11 Comments

Finding the best in poetry and poetic endeavors.

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Nick Samaras’ “Hands of the Saddlemaker”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Nicholas Samaras received the award in the 1991 for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition for this volume of poetry, Hands of the Saddlemaker. Now 20 years old, it has aged well; its themes of exile, pilgrimage, separation and “in this world but not of it” are as current now as they were then, […]

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Cool Poetry Resources

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Theron Kennedy at Inside Theron’s Head 2.0 and Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper found two cool online poetry resources. Kennedy tweeted a link to 32 Poems, which is sharing 215 favorite poetry books by 43 poets in 30 days. 32 Poems borrowed the idea from someone else, and adapted it for National Poetry Month. […]

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In Touch Magazine Seeking Poetry Submissions

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

In Touch, the monthly magazine of In Touch Ministries, now features work by contemporary Christian poets, including recent contributions from Nicholas Samaras, Anya Silver, Luci Shaw, and Robert Siegel (Samaras, Silver and Shaw have been featured here at TweetSpeak Poetry as part of National Poetry Month). They’re currently seeking poetry submissions—by known and unknown voices—that […]

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