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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

Top Ten Favorites from Poetry at Work Day 2015

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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As our third annual celebration of Poetry at Work Day concludes, we give you our top ten highlights, 47 tweets at a time.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day, Twitter poetry

Mischief Cafe: San Francisco and Trouble Coffee

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

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From mind-reading cat ears, to Trouble Coffee in two locations, the San Francisco Mischief Café is full of adjustments.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Mischief Café, Sestina

Poetry at Home—With Mischief, Toast, and Tea

By L.L. Barkat 22 Comments

Poetry is for life, not for ivory towers. That’s why we’re taking it home, with mischief, toast, and tea, through a new initiative called The Mischief Café.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry for Life

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Your novel’s optimum length is shorter than a bridge. A literary time capsule. Team building for the self-employed. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work

PhotoPlay Prompt: A Ballad to Remember 2

By Heather Eure 6 Comments

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Join us for part 2 of our PhotoPlay Prompt: A Ballad to Remember. Find an inspiring picture, write a poem, and be spirited away with a familiar song.

Filed Under: Ballad Poems, Ballads, Blog, Music Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

The Surprising Poetry of Arianna Huffington’s ‘Thrive’

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

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When you think Huffington Post, what comes to mind? It might not be poetry. But poetry is at the heart of Arianna Huffington and her book Thrive.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Courage Poems, Finding Inspiration, Hope Poems, Living, Rain poems

Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

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One of the best resources for Haiku in English, this is a helpful book. Check out the wonderful sample haiku and maybe go haiku hunting in Emily Dickinson.

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Blog, Haiku, Haiku Poems, Poems about poetry, poems about writing, poetry reviews, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems

Cheese Poetry: Read Your Labels Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 2 Comments

Read Your Labels

Raid the refrigerator and read your food labels with creativity in mind. Join us for our cheese themed poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Eating and Drinking Poems, Food Poems, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Photo Prompts: Still Life With Cheese Photo Play

By Heather Eure 18 Comments

Still Life With Cheese

Capture beauty on a plate. Join us for this month’s Photo Prompts, and dabble in the art of food styling.

Filed Under: Blog, Cheese Poems, Eating and Drinking Poems, Food Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writing prompts

The Poem of the Month: January

By T.S. Poetry 16 Comments

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Wherein we reveal the poem of the month. You picked it. We’re unveiling it.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Poem of the Month, Poems, poetry

How to Become a Better Writer: Blue Spring Florida Artist Date

By Kathryn Neel 3 Comments

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I arrive at the Blue Spring boil, where manatees dive deep, and flirt, and play, reminding me how to become a better writer.

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Choose the Poem of the Month

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

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It’s time to sleuth the poem of the month! Which poems were most loved in January? You can help us know.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Poem of the Month, Poems, poetry

Artist Date: Apiary

By Laura Boggess 33 Comments

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On a visit to an apiary, the bees live out a powerful metaphor for anyone who wants to become a better writer.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog, Creativity

Poetry at Work: Poetry and Business Life

By Scott Anderson 6 Comments

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Business and poetry, at least on the surface, appear to form an unlikely alliance. Scott Edward Anderson shows us why it’s not so unlikely after all.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

Literary Birthdays: C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine L’Engle

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 10 Comments

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C. S. Lewis shares a birthday with beloved authors Madeleine L’Engle and Louisa May Alcott. Kimberlee Conway Ireton gives tribute to the three.

Filed Under: Children's Authors, Literary Birthdays

Top Ten Reasons to be a Tweetspeak Tugboat

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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Want to help Tweetspeak Poetry keep providing great content? Our Top Ten Reasons to be a Tweetspeak Tugboat Supporter.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Tweetspeak Tugboats

Tweetspeak Party? You Could Be Invited

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

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Are you invited to the party? We’d love to have you.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Tweetspeak Tugboats

Journey into Poetry: Richard Maxson

By Rick Maxson 13 Comments

Richard Maxson kept journals, wrote essays, and penned a couple of one-act plays, but never poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, journey into poetry, poetry

WordCandy Sweet Bloggers: Quoting Cats

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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I had visions of growing old in a house full of cats (all offspring of the mangy Mommy Kitty and her many-timing orange Tom), and spending my final days surrounded in my living room recliner by litter boxes and tuna cans piled as high as my chest, a world speckled in cat dander in which I never meant to live. Cats can do that to a person.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, WordCandy

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