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Memoir Notebook: Double I/Eye

By Anthony Connolly 4 Comments

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You’ll attempt in memoir to recall as best you can, but it’s not always possible. One possible avenue of resolving the memory folly is splitting the memoirist in two.

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National Student Poet: Michaela Coplen (Part 2): Advocating for Poetry

By Maureen Doallas 4 Comments

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As a National Student Poet, Michaela Coplen has a goal “to spread appreciation of poetry at all levels…to encourage people to make poetry a part of their daily lives, reading, writing, or listening to one poem a day.”

Filed Under: Blog, Interview

How to Write a Powerful Book Proposal that Sells

By Jane Friedman 12 Comments

White Book Proposal Class

Comprehensive course on producing nonfiction book proposals in the digital age, with hands-on critique and feedback from industry veteran Jane Friedman. Focus is not just on writing a book proposal that will sell the idea, but that will also sell the book when it finally makes its way to market.

Filed Under: Blog, Book promotion, Workshops, Writing Tips

Literary Tour: New York Public Library Children’s Book Exhibit

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

New York Public Library Goodnight Moon

Just in time for Children’s Book Week, we visit the children’s book exhibit, The ABC of It, at the New York Public Library.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Libraries, Literary Tour

Poets and Poems: Robert Frost and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

TSP Snowy Woods Robert Frost

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost helped define poetry for millions of American Baby Boomers. It is still influential today.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Robert Frost

Literary Tour: Faulkner House Books, New Orleans

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Faulkner House Literary Tour

Faulkner House Books is a literary landmark in New Orleans – the place where William Faulkner wrote stories, poems and the novel “Soldier’s Pay.”

Filed Under: Books, Literary Tour, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews

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

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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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, Music, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry at Work: Clement Moore and the Work of St. Nicholas

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Poetry at Work Clement Moore

Clement Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” shows us poetry at work during Christmas both then and now.

Filed Under: Christmas Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry reviews

Poets and Poems: Scott Edward Anderson’s “Fallow Field”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Poets and Poems Scott Edward Anderson Fallow Field

Poets and Poems highlights Scott Edward Anderson’s poetry collection “Fallow Field, ” which is rooted in nature, waiting for the reader to apply some mental tillage.

Filed Under: book reviews, Nature Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Book Club Announcement: Poetry at Work

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Poetry at Work book by Glynn Young

Our upcoming book club discussion of Glynn Young’s new book, Poetry at Work, comes just in time to celebrate Poetry at Work Day.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work

How to Become a Better Writer: Write Like a Painter

By Charity Singleton Craig 25 Comments

Matisse dishes and fruit better writer

Can studying the work of a visual artist teach you how to become a better writer? Charity Singleton Craig thinks so, with four paintings by Henri Matisse.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Writing Life, Writing Tips

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Did Jane Austen play video games? Did William Carlos Williams really eat the plums? Did Ben Franklin think flying was useful? It’s another week of the best in poetry and poetic things: Our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Regional Tours: Matisse at Indianapolis Museum of Art

By Charity Singleton Craig 10 Comments

Les toits de Collioure by matisse

The work of Henri Matisse was not made to capture an impression, nor an exacting representation. His work captures the essence. Sort of like good writing.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Indiana Tour, Regional Tour

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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San Francisco in toothpicks, getting Beowulf wrong, everything Emily Dickinson ever wrote on. It’s this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Blog, Books, Cat Poems, Emily Dickinson, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poets and Poems: Roger McGough’s “As Far As I Know”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Poetry Shoes on wall

A Poets and Poems review of Roger McGough’s “As Far As I Know, ” a collection of poems published last year that includes both serious and fun poems.

Filed Under: article, Blog, book reviews, Books, Childhood Poems, Children's Poetry, Funny Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry humor, poetry reviews, Short Poems

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Shakespeare in its original English. Or Shakespeare rewritten. Infographics, code poetry, bad real estate photos and artful cookies. Find all this and more in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Tattoo Poetry: The Ink’s Journey Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

Tattoo Poetry Seize the Day

Tattoo poetry is *ink transforming*—telling a story or covering one, or giving a person something to live into that is yet untold.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Tattoo Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Top 10 Funny Poems

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

Cute Girl Laughing Top 10 Funny Poems

What makes for funny poems? Maybe the same things that make any writing funny. Enjoy a laugh and these ten funny poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, Children's Poetry, Dog Poems, Funniest Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems

Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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Being literally incorrect, Sesame Street’s “Sons of Poetry, ” Walter White & Walt Whitman, why ask why you need an editor. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

You Should Write a Book

By Charity Singleton Craig 18 Comments

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Should you write a book? It’s a question many writers toy with. Charity Singleton Craig shares some perspective. And a little Italian.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life

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