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Poetry Notebook Prompt: Noticing + Wondering

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Author Callie Feyen uses her gray matter—”Bink & Gollie” style—to explain how poetry and feelings are related. And how to make great Dutch braids.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Writing Prompt: Science Fiction and Ecopoetry

By Kortney Garrison 12 Comments

Science Fiction and Ecopoetry Dandelion

Reports on the state of the planet’s future can sound like dystopian science fiction. Can they also be a clarion call that enlivens our creativity? Join us as we write about our interconnection to the world we’re part of.

Filed Under: Blog, Ecopoetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Science Fiction, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Prompt: Google Poetry

By Heather Eure 14 Comments

google poetry prompt

We count on search engines to deliver relevant web sites in response to our queries. Learn a bit about Google and write some poetry about this forward-thinking technological giant.

Filed Under: Blog, brands, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt

The Poetry of Apple, Inc.: Prompt

By Heather Eure 9 Comments

the poetry of apple

From its simple beginnings, Apple Inc. has turned the technological world upside-down. Learn more about the history of this company and write some Apple-inspired poetry with us!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

12 Days of Form Poetry, Prompts, and Playlists

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

12 Days of Form Poetry

The Tweetspeak Team has bundled up our sugar plums and mistletoe, readying ourselves for that snowy trip over the river and through the woods to whomever’s house we are thinking to go. Enjoy the 12 Days of Form Poetry, Poetry Prompts and Playlists while we’re away.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, writing prompts

Epic Poetry: The Simile Prompt

By Heather Eure 13 Comments

epic simile

Join us for this week’s prompt as we explore the nature of simile and its use in epic poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Epic Poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Epic Poetry: Invocation of the Muse Prompt

By Heather Eure 20 Comments

invocation_of_the_muse

Seek and find your muse and bring her along to inspire a poem. What’s a muse? How do you invoke one like the Greeks did? Homer shows the way.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Epic Poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Epic Poetry: Playlist and Prompt

By Heather Eure 9 Comments

Epic_playlist_and_prompt

In our new Epic Poetry playlist, you’ll find songs inspired by many grand epics and songs that simply sound epic. Listen along and perhaps they’ll spur you to be bold, to take a risk, to dare.

Filed Under: Blog, Epic Poetry, Playlist, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Circus & Carnival Poetry and Photo Prompt: Run Away With the Circus

By Heather Eure 23 Comments

circus_&_carnival

This week, our prompt encourages you to run away with the circus. You can be a lion tamer, an acrobat, anything! Write a poem about your new adventure.

Filed Under: Blog, Circus & Carnival, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Ship, Sail, Boat: Ship Of the Old School Poetry & Photo Prompt

By Heather Eure 24 Comments

ship-sail-boat-the-watery-part-of-the-world

In this week’s poetry prompt, we take a closer look at the intricacies of boats and ships. Are they monuments of history or do they seem a bit more human?

Filed Under: Blog, Boat Poems, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Sail, Sea Poems, Ship, Ship-Sail-Boat, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Poetry and Photo Prompts: Spanish Lace Photo Play

By Heather Eure 42 Comments

Lace photo prompts

Photographs can have a poetic voice. With photography as in poetry, sometimes what isn’t said is just as important as what is. Join us for our latest Photo Play prompt, finding lace in nature, and letting it tell us what isn’t said.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Lace Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, Spanish Lace, Themed Writing Projects

Poetry and Photo Prompts: Doors & Passageways Photo Play

By Julie Matkin 46 Comments

Looking out into the sunlight

Join our Photo Play opportunity to explore our monthly poetry themes in a visual way (or write a poem, if you prefer!). First up: Doors & Passageways.

Filed Under: Blog, Door Photos, Photo Play, Photography prompts, poetry prompt, Themed Writing Projects

Night Poetry: Playlist and Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 34 Comments

Night Poetry Night Poems

Night poetry easily lends itself to being love poetry. Like Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty.”

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Night Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Cat Poetry: The Cat’s Meow Playlist & Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 27 Comments

Cat Poetry White Cat Poems

Cat poetry has been around for a long time. And why not? Cats are just so intriguing!

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Cat Poems, Ghazal Poems, Haiku Poems, Music, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Ghazal Poetry: Do the Twist Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 6 Comments

Ghazal Poetry Gazelles

Ghazal poetry sometimes asks the big questions. Who am I? Why am I here? And, for that matter, why are you?

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Blog, Chicken poems, Family Poems, Funny Poems, Ghazal Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources

Tattoo Poetry: Ode on a Grecian Urn Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 5 Comments

Tattoo poetry

Tattoo poetry is permanent poetry—captured by the body that bears it. There’s a sense in which it is locked in time and form, much the way the painted Greek lovers were perpetually locked to the vase in “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

Filed Under: Adam and Eve Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Ode Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

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.

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Tattoo Poetry: Inked with an Author Prompt

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

Tattoo Poetry

Get inked with your author; give us a poem that tells the tale.

Filed Under: Grief Poems, love poems, love poetry, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Themed Writing Projects, writer's group resources, writing prompts

Creativity Prompt: Sanity Journal

By T.S. Poetry Leave a Comment

The Yellow Wall-paper Sanity Journal

Maybe you need a little pick-me-up? Enjoy this simple prompt from ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper Sanity Journal’ to get you on your way.

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Ekphrastic Poems Prompt: In the Lost House

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

lone house in field

Ekphrastic poems create a kind of beautiful collaboration—artist to poet, poet to artist. Collaborate with artist Megan Merchant today by getting inspired with her painting “In the Lost House.”

Filed Under: Ekphrastic Poetry, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

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