Charity Singleton Craig hosts a segment of our Poets and Writers Toolkit featuring Six-Word Memoirs to spark creativity.
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Poetry at Work: Dulce De Leche
When considering how to start a catered meal, it’s best to start with dessert, and seek the poetic details in the sweetness.
St. George of the Bayou (A Poetry Prompt)
St. George of the Bayou spins a dragon tale and a brand new poetry prompt.
Textures, Details, Angles: Interview with Photographer Claire Burge
Maureen Doallas interviews photographer Claire Burge on the importance of visual observation and the way her photography helps her write in vivid detail.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: following words
We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together this month at Tweetspeak. Are you reading along?
Artist Date: Orchid Conservatory
Take an Artist Date to the un-useful plant section of a conservatory. Un-useful, that is, unless you see the value of sudden play.
The Ticket Counter: National Poetry Month
At Tweetspeak Poetry, we know you want *in* to the special experience of National Poetry Month. So we’ll be curating the best experiences for you, all month long.
The Poetics of Learning (and Loving) Language
The earthy poetry of Pablo Neruda hands me words I’ve never heard, but that make perfect and instant sense, words I was looking for without knowing.
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Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity
Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.
Poetry Classroom: My Daughter’s Hair
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Tania Runyan. Today’s poem will leave you wanting red.
Memoir Notebook: Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference
Memoir Notebook is a new monthly (sometimes more) column. Today, to the Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Or maybe to the blind man on the street.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.
Poetry Classroom: Sestina for Brood XIII
We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises. Up today? A sestina.
Artist Date: Freezing Rain
Freezing rain and an ice storm in progress provided a sensory treat for an unexpected Artist Date.
Build Your Writing, Then Move In
It may not seem so, but in their early days of writing, all writers were builders.
Image-ine: Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen
Maureen Doallas pairs her poem ‘A Ladder Our Boat’ with Holly Friesen’s ‘Warrior Canoe’ in our latest Image-ine feature.
Leaving Books
Books are who I am–I am the sum total of every book I have read. Charity Singleton Craig reflects on parting with her book collection.
The Artist Date How-To
The artist date is a play date you plan with yourself, by yourself. Go to the river, build a snowman, run your hands over paper and paints at a funky supply store.