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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

Bread, Pastries, Pies Playlist & Prompt

By Heather Eure 134 Comments

Bread, Pastries, and Pies

This month’s playlist is a mouth-watering buffet of sweet musical delights. Listen along, share a pastry poem, and think about your New Year’s diet later.

Filed Under: Blog, Food Poems, Music, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

Poetry for Life: “Wasted Beauty” at Tavern of Fine Arts

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

We found poetry in our own community, both formal and informal, historical and contemporary. And we found it at the Tavern of Fine Arts.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, book reviews, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, Poetry for Life, poetry reviews, Poets

Write Your Own Shakespearean Sonnets: Juliet’s Aubade

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

write Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare sonnet

Sonnet about Romeo and Juliet? This is one you simply won’t want to miss. Then maybe try your hand at one of your own.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

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

Common Core Picture Poems: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Raven-Edgar Allan Poe

Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. Today we consider Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

Filed Under: Blog, Common Core Poems, Picture Poems, poetry teaching resources

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

Bonneville Salt Flats and Salt Lake Park, Utah

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Optical illusion or the curvature or the earth? Take a look at the beauty of Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.

Filed Under: Blog, Literary Tour

A Book of Middles: Silver Dream

By L.L. Barkat 25 Comments

Green Leaf Book of Middles

What does a “middle” look like in a story? Or, how do you perhaps begin a story “in medias res”? The Book of Middles explores these questions and more.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction

Poetry for Life: The 5 Vital Approaches

By L.L. Barkat 14 Comments

Poetry for Life Blue Umbrellas

In a recent article at The Huffington Post, I highlighted 5 vital approaches for furthering “poetry for life.” Now Tweetspeak is taking it a step beyond.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry for Life

Mischief Cafe: San Francisco and Trouble Coffee

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Trouble Coffee Yosemite sign

From mind-reading cat ears, to Trouble Coffee in two locations, the San Francisco Mischief Café is full of adjustments.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Mischief Café, Sestina

Mischief Cafe: Seattle, Washington

By L.L. Barkat 24 Comments

Dandelion in Fall Mischief Cafe

The 11-day Mischief Cafe tour begins, and the defining quality will be surprise (with plenty of hilarity to go along with it).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café

An Evening with Billy Collins

By Glynn Young 25 Comments

Poet Billy Collins read from his new volume, “Aimless Love, ” in St. Louis County, Missouri on Nov. 1; more than 800 people came for an intimate evening.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Dog Poems, Funny Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets

The Office of Poetry Grievances

By Charity Singleton Craig 19 Comments

Office of Poetry Grievances

Do you have a grievance to file against poetry? Charity Singleton Craig is staffing the Office of Poetry Grievances today.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry teaching resources

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

Whittles & Wood: Poetry Prompt and Playlist

By Heather Eure 34 Comments

Wood and Whittles

We’ve searched far & wide to find just the right songs for you in our latest poetry prompt & playlist. Listen along & sharpen your poetic carving skills.

Filed Under: Blog, Music, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Whittles & Wood Poems, writing prompts

Memoir Notebook: The Worst Kind of Luck

By Darrelyn Saloom 60 Comments

memoir notebook darrelyn saloom

Darrelyn Saloom recalls her mother, Billie Burnside and the Circle Inn lounge in this poignant entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Eating and Drinking Poems: Wendell Berry’s “Fall”

By Kathryn Neel 6 Comments

chocolate dipped cherries recipe

Chocolate and cherries, “Fall” and Wendell Berry. Two great pairings, paired in Kathryn Neel’s latest Eating and Drinking Poems, one you’ll want to dip in.

Filed Under: Blog, Chocolate, Eating and Drinking Poems, Recipes

Regional Tour: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, NY

By Vicki Addesso 6 Comments

Neuberger Museum of Art

Go back to the Neuberger Museum of Art at New York’s Purchase College with former museum staffer, Victoria Addesso in our latest Literary Tour.

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

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