You know how it can be with expectations. You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it comes, you feel slightly deflated, because the expectation was bigger than the reality. That didn’t happen with Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems by Maureen Doallas. In fact, just the opposite happened. The reality exceeded my expectations, and […]
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Of Parasols and Scorpions 2
Here is the next group of six poems taken from our recent Twitter poetry party. Somehow the contributions moved from love to an apocalypse of weather to the planets and then to Hamlet’s voicemail
The Ghosts This Time of Year
A tradition fallen out of fashion, I find it a shame we’re not often telling ghost stories at Christmas time.
Random Acts of Poetry: Noel Ghosts
In a Random Acts of Poetry celebration, poet David K. Wheeler has invited us to write about our Christmas ghosts: past, present, or future.
An Interview with David Wheeler
Last week, I posted an article here about reading poetry while waiting in line to vote. The poetry in question was Contingency Plans: Poems by David Wheeler. Today over at The High Calling is an interview with David about his poetry and writing. Below is some information from the interview about his background and upbringing. […]
The Poetry of Voting
The mid-term election was last week, and I prepared myself for the process with – a book of poems. While the lines weren’t expected to be long, unlike 2008, I still wanted to be prepared to wait. Voting lines aren’t the best places to make conversation – people are very circumspect; no one wants to […]
As Easy as Pie 2
Below are seven more poems from our recent poetry jam (or was it poetry pie?) on Twitter.
Governments of Tea 7 (and the finale)
The final six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Governments of Tea 6
Below are six more poems edited from our recent Twitter poetry party, all inspired and prompted by The Republic of Tea
Governments of Tea 4
Tea poems you can drink up. Including Orion, catholic schools, and jazz. Not your ordinary fare.
Governments of Tea 3
Here are six more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party on Tea
Governments of Tea 2
Here are the next four poems from our recent Twitter poetry party. The subject of tea takes a business, then political, and finally a personal, turn.
Governments of Tea
Well, everyone brought a teacup filled with tea to our recent Twitter poetry party
Robotics in Verse 4
This completes the series of poems from July’s Twitter poetry party here at TweetSpeak Poetry.
Bring Your Own Tea to the Twitter Party
we’d like you to drink the tea of your choice at the party, and tweet a photo of your favorite tea cup sometime during the proceedings
Robotics in Verse 3
Here are seven more poems in our “Robotics in Verse” series from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Robotics in Verse 2
It’s been a few days since I posted the first poems from our most recent Twitter poetry party. I have no excuse other than it’s been busy – a wedding, a funeral, a baptism, some travel, normal life. You know how it is.
Robotics in Verse
At last Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party, all poetic prompts were from Robert Pinsky’s Death and the Powers
On the Butterfly’s Blue Wing 3
Here are the “final 5” – the last of the poems developed from our Twitter poetry party last week.
On the Butterfly’s Blue Wing
For last Thursday’s Twitter poetry party, 10 of us virtually assembled