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

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Sheep from the Back Fun Photo Poetic Picks

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.

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

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Jody Collins

Jody Collins is a teacher who supports Tweetspeak Poetry because she thinks the world needs more beauty and encouragement—two things she notes the TS team does so well.

Memoir Notebook: Sweet Talk

By Darrelyn Saloom 38 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry - Memoir Notebook - Sweet Talk by Darrelyn Saloom

In this Memoir Notebook, Darrelyn Saloom recalls watching her stepfather raise his right arm. This time, his open hand curled into a fist.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Gold+ Partner Profile: Author & Publisher Laura Lynn Brown

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Gold Partner Profile Laura Lynn Brown Clover in Light

Meet our new witty and warm Gold Partner, Laura Lynn Brown and learn a few secrets about writing inspiration and why you might want to be a partner too.

Filed Under: Interview, Interviews, Writing Life

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.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Literary Tour: Mariposa Museum & History Center

By Dolly Lee 8 Comments

Literary Tour Mariposa Museum

Join Dolly Lee for a piece of history around Yosemite in this Literary Tour to the Mariposa Museum and History Center in Mariposa, California.

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This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top Ten Poetic Picks

Former teen poet becomes President. Poetry is dead, again? Elastic ekphrastics and the challenges of diversity in publishing. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry

Castle Conversations: Arianna Huffington at Manhattanville College

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

Manhattanville Castle staircase

Manhattanville College serves up intriguing Castle Conversations, beginning with Arianna Huffington, a woman both visionary and down-to-earth.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Tour

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

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

the best in poetry

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.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

A More Beautiful Question: Thinking in Questions (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

a more beautiful question

What if we didn’t stop asking questions when we got to a certain age? Join us in our first installment of the A More Beautiful Question book club.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Books, Creativity

Today is Poetry at Work Day!

By Glynn Young 19 Comments

Today is Poetry at Work Day, and Tweetspeak Poetry, and its co-sponsors Slice Magazine and Scratch Magazine, invite you to celebrate the day with us.

Filed Under: article, poetry, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day, poetry news

Regional Tours: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln NE

By Michelle DeRusha 13 Comments

Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln NE 5

Take a literary tour of Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art, from the giant head on the steps to giant torn pages in the breeze and everything in between.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Blog, Regional Tour

Edvard Munch – Poet?

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Edvard Munch is known for his paintings, especially “The Scream.” But he was also a poet, and wrote many entries in his private journals in poetic form.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Blog, Books, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Understanding Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen’s Shin Bone

By Charity Singleton Craig 16 Comments

jane austen pride and prejudice

Why Mark Twain (and countless high school students) wants to dig up Jane Austen and find her shin bone. Love it or hate it, Pride and Prejudice still tops the charts.

Filed Under: Books, English Teaching Resources, Pride and Prejudice

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

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Mischief Cafe: Lincoln, Nebraska

By L.L. Barkat 20 Comments

Christmas Lights Blue Trees

How do we love, across gaps and miles, and different ways of holding our teacups? The Mischief Café asks serious questions amidst great laughter.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry at Home

Poets and Poems: Siegfried Sassoon and “The War Poems”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

TSP Dover lighthouse

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived World War I and went on to a successful literary career, but he is best remembered for “the War Poems.”

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, war poems

Poetry at Home—With Mischief, Toast, and Tea

By L.L. Barkat 22 Comments

Poetry is for life, not for ivory towers. That’s why we’re taking it home, with mischief, toast, and tea, through a new initiative called The Mischief Café.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry for Life

Reading Kubla Khan: A Mischief Café Dream

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Kubla Khan Poem in Woods

What better place to read Kubla Khan than in a dream-like woodland? What better place to discuss mischief and controlled chaos.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Dream Poems, Mischief Café

National Student Poet Louis Lafair: Part 2

By Maureen Doallas 2 Comments

national student poet louis lafair

National Student Poet Louis Lafair discusses the influences of his poetry, and his vision for experiencing poetry in the 21st century.

Filed Under: Blog, Interview, Interviews, journey into poetry, Student Writing

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