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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poetry Feather bowl

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.

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Poets and Writers Toolkit: Six-Word Memoirs

By Charity Singleton Craig 54 Comments

reading and books prompt

Charity Singleton Craig hosts a segment of our Poets and Writers Toolkit featuring Six-Word Memoirs to spark creativity.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, writer's group resources

5 Great Ways for How to Write a Pantoum

By L.L. Barkat 16 Comments

Pantoum Sea Urchins by Pink Sherbet Photography

Here are five great ways to write a pantoum. You weren’t looking for anything but great ways, right?

Filed Under: Blog, Pantoum, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

A Valentine’s Playlist

By Seth Haines 15 Comments

valentine's playlist

Tweetspeak is here for you. We have the best love poems (print one off and tuck it in your pocket–it might come in handy), we have a Funny Valentine’s Playlist if you need to break the ice, and we have the sweetest list of romantic songs. All you have to do is Play.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Love Songs Playlist, Music, Poems, poetry, Valentine's Day

Llamas in Pajamas (and 10 great children’s poetry books)

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 16 Comments

children's poetry

Kimberlee Conway Ireton reads Llamas in Pajamas — and 10 great children’s poetry books — with her kids. In fleecy pajamas.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories, poetry

Writing Rituals: Starting with Tea

By Megan Willome 28 Comments

Choice Organic Darjeeling Tea Writers Rituals

Tea goes with writing, writing starts with poetry. It’s a like a triangle with tea at the top, the left corner as poetry, and the right corner as my regular writing. Megan Willome, on tea and poetry,

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, poetry, Poetry Rituals, Tea Poems, Writing Rituals

Taking Poetry to Work: A Few Good Tricks

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Poetry at Work Day Book, journal, cuppa tea.

Poetry at Work Day? It doesn’t need to be elaborate. Here are a few ideas you can use to make it happen in your workplace.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Silver Forks

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Will Willingham. 1 Art As an insurance adjuster, I find the term “perfect storm” an unfortunate combination of words, unless we simply mean the sort of storm which generates a lot of business for me but in which no one is hurt and only easily […]

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The Anthologist: Motion

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

I found Paul Chowder at the Tip O’Neill building. He was in the passport office cajoling the bureaucrats into renewing his travel documents just days before his departure to Switzerland for some big international poetry doings because he didn’t realize he’d expired. I was there for my once-a-decade passport renewal even though I had no […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 15 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art We heart book art. Here’s Erica Baum’s new collection of paper art. Called Dog Ear, it’s a collection of photographs of the dog-eared pages of books. Sound boring? It’s not. It’s beautiful. We’ve spotlighted quite a bit of book art […]

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Journey into Poetry: Dave Harrity

By Dave Harrity 9 Comments

I liked poetry at that point in my life, but I didn’t love it.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 20 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 25 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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Rumors of Water: The Ingredients at Hand

By Will Willingham

Of all the gifts Rumors of Water will give a writer, an excuse is not one.

Filed Under: book club, Rumors of Water, writer's group resources, writing prompts

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 12 Comments

This week’s top 10 poetic picks lands on glass igloos and gold medal poetry.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 11 Comments

Finding the best in poetry and poetic endeavors.

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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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Governments of Tea

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Well, everyone brought a teacup filled with tea to our recent Twitter poetry party

Filed Under: poetry, Tea Poems, Twitter poetry

National Poetry Month: Gary Soto

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Need poetry teaching resources? Check out our collection of poets, poems, and poetry classroom discussions led by poets and professors.

Filed Under: Family Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets, School Poems, Tattoo Poems

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