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Bring in the Cupcakes! It’s Take Your Poet to School Week

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poet in a Cupcake Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week! Celebrate with themes such as Talk Like a Poet Day, Poet in Your Math Book Day, and of course, sweetest of all, our new public day: Poet in a Cupcake Day!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

A Publishing Opportunity for Our Patrons

By T.S. Poetry

Gorgeous Butterfly Ecochallenge

This National Poetry Month, we’re going to combine our 30 Days of poem-making with another organization’s effort: The Drawdown EcoChallenge. Here’s how to participate—and maybe get published.

Filed Under: Blog, Drawdown, National Poetry Month, Patron Publishing Opportunties, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Take Your Poet to School Week: Shel Silverstein

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Shel Silverstein Take Your Poet to School

Celebrate Take Your Poet to School Week “where the sidewalk ends.” Shel Silverstein makes his debut for next week’s big event.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Shel Silverstein, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Mother Goose

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mother Goose Take Your Poet to School Week Cover

Even the mythical poets are getting in on the fun of Take Your Poet to School Week. Today, Mother Goose hops on a stick and makes her debut.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Mother Goose, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School Week: Ogden Nash

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Cover Ogden Nash

Our preparation for this year’s Take Your Poet to School Week continues with the light and whimsical poems of Ogden Nash.

Filed Under: Blog, Ogden Nash, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School: Robert Louis Stevenson

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Robert Louis Stevenson cover

Don’t let the folks with briefcases have all the fun. Join in the brand new celebration of Take Your Poet to School Week with our fun cut ‘n color poets on a stick.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Poet in a Cupcake Day

Emily in a Cupcake!

Date: Poet in a Cupcake Day is celebrated on the Friday of Take Your Poet to School Week, which is the first full week in April. In 2022, that puts Poet in a Cupcake Day on April 8. How to Celebrate: Poet in a Cupcake Day is a fun capstone day for Take Your Poet […]

Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks: The Golden Shovel Anthology

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

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“The Golden Shovel Anthology” has been published by the University of Arkansas Press to honor poet Gwendolyn Brooks, with a new poetic form.

Filed Under: article, Black Poets, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry news, poetry reviews, Poets

Poetry and World War I: It Wasn’t Only England

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Sunset World War I Poetry

“Everything to Nothing” by Geert Buelens provides a fascinating look into the breadth and depth of the role poetry played in World War I.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Poems, Poets, war poems

The Wild Swans: The Patience of Water

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

The Wild Swans book club

We wrap up our group reading of The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris, considering the patience of water and things to which we will give long years of our lives.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, The Wild Swans

The Wild Swans: I Did Love to Fly

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

The Wild Swans

This month we’re reading The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris together. Join us for a conversation about wishes and curses and, of course, swans (and maybe write a poem to the fairy tale).

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairy Tale Poems, The Wild Swans

Book Club Announcement: The Wild Swans

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Wild Swans book club announcement

Join us during National Poetry Month 2017 to read The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris and write poems to the fairy tale together.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, National Poetry Month, The Wild Swans

Help Us Celebrate National Poetry Day on Oct. 6!

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

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Tweetspeak Poetry is collaborating with Britain’s Forward Arts Foundation to help celebrate National Poetry Day UK on Oct. 6.

Filed Under: Blog, Britain, London, poetry, poetry news, Poetry Workshops

O Me, O, Miami: Expanding the Literary Culture of a Region One Poem at a Time

By Charity Singleton Craig 7 Comments

Miami Poetry Festival ©GESI SCHILLING

What if you had a goal for every person in your city to encounter a poem all in one month. Where would you start? O, Miami Poetry Festival, for one.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Tour, poetry, Poetry for Life, Regional Tour

2015-2016 National Student Poets Share Their Passion for Poetry

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

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Five National Student Poets share their passion for poetry in their own hometowns and beyond through workshops, readings, and literary programs.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month

Indiana Poet Laureate Shari Wagner

By Charity Singleton Craig 5 Comments

Indiana Poet Laureate Shari Wagner

Charity Singleton Craig meets Indiana Poet Laureate Shari Wagner and considers how to make poetry more accessible to more people.

Filed Under: Blog, Farm Poems, Father Poems, Indiana Tour, Poems, poetry

Top 10 Pocket Poets and Their Poems

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poem in Your Pocket day man with plaid shirt and pocket poets

It’s Poem in Your Pocket Day. What better way to celebrate than with one of these 10 great pocket poets (and their poems) in your pocket.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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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.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Your Free Jeans Poems & Photos E-book and an Invitation!

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

National Poetry Month Jeans Poems and Jeans Photos Zipper

Last year, during National Poetry Month, you gave us your jeans. In poems and photos. Now we’re giving them back to you in free e-book form. Come get the collection, plus a special invitation!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Short Poems

Every Day Ideas: Every Day Sketches

By Will Willingham 22 Comments

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Use a line from an Every Day Poems selection and share pictures of your Every Day Sketches, and we’ll save them for possible inclusion in a special “Every Day Ideas” ebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Ideas, Every Day Poems

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