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The Cinnamon Beetle 5

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Below are five poems and five fragments pulled from our recent Twitter poetry party.

Filed Under: poetry, Twitter poetry

The Village Watched: A Random Act of Poetry

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

There were so many great conversations, visual and verbal, offered up for this month’s collaborative prompt between The High Calling’s PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, random acts of poetry

The Cinnamon Beetle 3

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.

Filed Under: poetry, Twitter poetry

The Cinnamon Beetle 2

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.

Filed Under: poetry, Twitter poetry

Write Your First Sestina: It’s a Matter of Pride

By L.L. Barkat 28 Comments

Heinz Ketchup Sign How to Write a Sestina

The sestina, like a song, helps us say what we want to say without really saying it.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Every Day Poems, Music Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Sestina, Student Writing, writer's group resources

Alice and the Chinese Jar 3

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Below are three additional poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.

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This is What a Poem’s Worth

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

Poems are everywhere, free for the taking. Yet they are worth so much.

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Alice and the Chinese Jar

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Last Thursday night, there was another gathering of the Tweetspeakers for a Twitter poetry party.

Filed Under: poetry, Twitter poetry

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Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat, Creator, Tweetspeak Poetry, T. S. Poetry Press, Every Day Poems, and Poetic Earth Month I’m a former educator who believes in the heart of a teacher and the soul of a student, and I’m currently giving my own heart and soul to bringing beauty and joy to the education process through the many […]

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By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Special subscription offer for Every Day Poems, where we read and write poetry together. Get timely announcements for our Writing Projects and Twitter Poetry Parties.

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“Kingdom Come: Poems” by John Estes

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

In 2009, we reviewed here a chapbook published by poet John Estes entitled Breakfast with Blake at the Lacoon. In the review we said that Estes effectively evoked a sense of both the literary and everyday reality. That same characteristic is true of his first collection of poems, Kingdom Come: Poems, published by CR Press, […]

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National Poetry Month: Marianne Moore

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972), a Modernist poet known for her irony and wit (so says Wikipedia), was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Her first poems were published in 1915, and she came to the attention of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. She became editor […]

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National Poetry Month: Maureen Doallas — and a Giveaway

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Maureen Doallas is an honors graduate of Vassar College, and has been a features writer and editor for more than 35 years. One of her poems is included in the Gulf of Mexico charity anthology Oil and Water… and Other Things That Don’t Mix (LL-Publications, 2010); two poems appear at Poets for Living Waters; and […]

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National Poetry Month: Nicholas Samaras

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Nicholas Samaras is a poet and essayist, and author of Hands of the Saddlemaker (1992), which won the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Born in England in 1952, Samaras was raised there and in Massachusetts, later settling in New York. He is the son of Bishop Kallistos Samaras, a prominent Greek Orthodox priest […]

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National Poetry Month: Ilya Kaminsky

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Ilya Kaminsky was born in 1977 in Odessa in The Ukraine (then the Soviet Union), and came to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted political asylum. He is the author of the chapbook Musica Humana and Dancing in Odessa, which won several awards. He’s also received a Whiting Writers’ Award, the […]

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National Poetry Month: J. Michael Martinez

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

J. Michael Martinez is a young poet but already one with impressive credentials. A graduate of Northern Colorado University (B.A.) and George Mason University (M.F.A.), his poems have appeared in New American Writing, Five Fingers Review, The Colorado Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. He received the 2006 Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize and […]

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National Poetry Month: Andrei Codrescu

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The first time I heard of Andrei Codrescu, he was speaking on National Public Radio. And he was speaking about my hometown, New Orleans. And he was speaking like he knew what he was talking about, which he did, and with an Eastern European accent. Who was this guy? Codrescu was born in Romania. He […]

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It’s National Poetry Month

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

There must be something one can say about National Poetry Month starting on April Fool’s Day. But I can’t, or won’t. For National Poetry Month 2011, TweetSpeak Poetry will be featuring a series of posts on poets living and dead, published and unpublished, and including links to sites that we’ve found on the internet that […]

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Talking with Maureen Doallas about “Neruda’s Memoirs”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

An interview with poet Maureen Doallas, about her background and poetic history, going into the publishing of her first book ‘Neruda’s Memoirs.’

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