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Top Ten Anne of Green Gables Quotes

By T.S. Poetry 24 Comments

Top Anne of Green Gables Quotes

Are you a fan of the beloved L. M. Montgomery novels? Enjoy these 10 great Anne of Green Gables quotes, and share your favorite with us.

Filed Under: Anne of Green Gables, Blog, Books, Children's Stories, Quotes

A More Beautiful Question: Thinking in Questions (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

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What if we didn’t stop asking questions when we got to a certain age? Join us in our first installment of the A More Beautiful Question book club.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Books, Creativity

Fifty Ways to Love Your Mother

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

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Not sure how to love your Mother for Valentine’s Day? Check out these ways with words. From the poignant to the hilarious.

Filed Under: Blog, Valentine's Day

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

Top 10 All-Time Posts at Tweetspeak Poetry

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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We have no super-secret algorithms but through a process that’s one part data, one part intuition, one part special sauce, we’ve gathered the 10 most popular posts in the Tweetspeak archives (from all time).

Filed Under: Blog, Catalog Poems, Ghazal Poems, Poetry Classroom, Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry Prompt: Ballads, Strange and Silly

By Heather Eure 21 Comments

Ballads, Strange and Silly

Outrageous stories can be found within a ballad’s rhyme. We think a little nonsense is good for the child in all of us. Be a part of our silly poetry prompt

Filed Under: Ballad Poems, Ballads, Blog, Funny Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Ever wonder what we’re reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Browse our Top Ten Posts from the last month (or so) and find out.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

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How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Top 10 Tips for a Summer Staycation

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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You deserve a vacation. And we say you should give yourself one. Only don’t leave home. Try these ten tips for a great summer staycation.

Filed Under: Creativity, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks + Emily

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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Artful chocolate, famous punk authors, poetry in the supermarket, and how to not write a novel. It’s the best in poetry: our monthly Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Stories, Emily Dickinson, Libraries, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

T.S. Poetry Press Goes to the Big Apple (and Donates a Peach)

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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T.S. Poetry Press is doing its part to ensure that on your next trip to New York City, the endless river of books will still be flowing freely.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Literary Tour, New York Literary

3 Rules for Pretending to Be a Writer

By Charity Singleton Craig 6 Comments

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What can children’s play teach you about how to be a writer? It can teach you how to pretend, which maybe a step in your writing journey.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Literary Tours: Poets House, New York City

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Poets House Lucille Clifton

Poets House is a place of reclamation, of your past and of your future.

Filed Under: Anniversary Poems, Blog, Friendship Poems, Hope Poems, Literary Tour, love poems, love poetry, Nature Poems, New York Literary, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

tattoo raspberry top ten poetry picks

Poetry as diplomacy, waiting for tattoos, unsplitting infinitives and the poetry of labor. all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Tattoo Poems, Top 10 Poetic Picks

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Dr. Seuss: Embracing the Creatures Within

By L.L. Barkat 7 Comments

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What would you do if you were voted Least Likely to Succeed? This is what Dr. Suess did.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Getting Published

Let’s Go Crazy–A Potpourri Purple Poetry Prompt of Tyrannosaurical Proportions

By Seth Haines 15 Comments

From Barney the purple dinosaur to Little Jack Horner’s plum-popping thumb, Seth Haines has a new purple poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Purple, Themed Writing Projects

The Little House on the Prairie is Still There

By Will Willingham 29 Comments

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A visit to the scene of Little House on the Prairie reminds us that, sometimes, it’s the telling of a story that makes it extraordinary.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, Literary Tour

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