It was another Twitter Poetry party, and this one started with a few rumors.
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My Last Villanelle
I admire a well-executed villanelle in the same way I admire a Baroque Tromp-l’oeil ceiling
Can You Hear What She Sees?
The villanelle is a perfect form for sound-capturing, as it mimics a song.
I See You in There: the Villanelle
Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange
Terrified of Sexy Pie
Perhaps you didn’t know this about me? That I have a thing for love poems?
Look Up, (and Don’t Blush)
Could you find a poem by looking up?
Stanley Moss’s “God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike”
Now Moss has published what must stand as a testament to his career as a poet
Stories of the Bees 2: Swan Poems
From bees, our recent Twitter poetry party began to transition to swans.
Stories of the Bees: Bee Poems
At the Twitter poetry party, we got into bees and moons and ants and rosaries and all manner of things
Tomaz Salamun’s “The Blue Tower: Poems”
Born in Croatia and raised in Slovenia, Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun has published 30 collections of poetry in his native language. His poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages, and he’s had nine collection published in English. The Blue Tower: Poems is the tenth in English, and translated with the author by Michael […]
What is Poetry: Last Word (at least for now)
What is poetry? A shot in some dark, a walk in some woods, a maker’s feel for the material at hand, an intuition of what is needed?
What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 2
What is poetry? Any effort to define Poetry (with a capital “P”) in an exhaustive way is doomed to fall short. So why not offer a poet’s heresy.
Coming of Age: The Stolen Child
Can you see how the poem “The Stolen Child” embodies a struggle to grow up?
Donald Hall’s “The Back Chamber”
From the time I was 8 until I was 14, I spent a week each summer at my grandmother’s house in Shreveport. I would sleep in the second bedroom, which was always called “the back room” even though it and my grandmother’s bedroom formed the back of the house. It was the room with a […]
What is Poetry: Falling in Love, 1
The first step towards falling in love, of course, is the cultivation of friendship. And so I have to convince my students that poetry—and the poets who write them—are friends worth getting to know.
The Kingdom Comes II
Here are the next six poems taken from our recent TweetSpeak Poetry jam on Twitter. All the prompts were lines from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. The Kingdom Comes II By @llbarkat, @SandraHeskaKing, @gyoung9751, @jestes, @Doallas, @jejpoet, @CeliaNickel1, @togetherforgood, @PensieveRobin, @kellysauer, @sethhaines, @theeagleacademy, @mdgoodyear, and @elizabethesther. Edited by @gyoung9751. I sailed a galleon, a […]
Sonnets Born in Closets and Cheetos Bags
Never one to miss an opportunity, James Cummins wrote me a sonnet I am fondly calling the “Closet Cheetos Poem.”
Get Historical in Pictures
If you want to join us, write a poem that focuses on a personal history—yours, an object’s, or another person’s.
Glass Slipper Sonnets
Does a writing a sonnet feel like an ill fit? This fun glass slipper essay will make it (a little) easier.
The Cinnamon Beetle 6
Six poems and 16 fragments – the last of our poems developed from the recent Twitter poetry party.