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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.
Tell Me More, Tell Me More
Last Thursday night, some 29 people decided to “tell me more” and participated in Twitter poetry party.
Fields of Red 5
Editing the tweets into poems is work — but it’s fun work.
Fields of Red 4
A (very) short primer on editing tweets from our Twitter poetry parties
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
This week’s top 10 poetic picks lands on glass igloos and gold medal poetry.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Check out our Top 10 poetic picks this week, with Matthew Kreider showing the way.
From Blush to Fiery Passion
Seventeen poems were submitted for our February prompt of “red, ” and they ranged from a mere hint of blush to an all-out fiery passion of RED. (I’m still fanning myself.)
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Finding the best in poetry and poetic endeavors.
Lace Under the Stars
It was another Twitter poetry party, and the poetic lines just glistened.
Rumors of a Blue Geography
It was another Twitter Poetry party, and this one started with a few rumors.
I See You in There: the Villanelle
Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange
Baptizing a Cup
Baptism by coffee? See our featured poem for Random Acts of Poetry.
Stories of the Bees 2: Swan Poems
From bees, our recent Twitter poetry party began to transition to swans.
Stories of the Bees: Bee Poems
At the Twitter poetry party, we got into bees and moons and ants and rosaries and all manner of things
Twitter Party Tonight: Write with Anne Overstreet
Tonight, September 20, at 9 pm EST, please join us for an evening of improv poetry with Anne M. Doe Overstreet. Here is our standard explanation of a Twitter poetry party 🙂 : The rules are simple because there aren’t any. Well, maybe one (the hashtag). We announce a Twitter Party date and time; party […]
The Kingdom Comes III
Below are five additional poems from our recent poetry jam on Twitter. I call these our Kansas phase. All prompts came from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. The Kingdom Comes III By @llbarkat, @SandraHeskaKing, @gyoung9751, @jestes, @Doallas, @jejpoet, @CeliaNickel1, @togetherforgood, @PensieveRobin, @kellysauer, @sethhaines, @theeagleacademy, @mdgoodyear, and @elizabethesther. Edited by @gyoung9751. I came to Kansas […]
The Kingdom Comes II
Here are the next six poems taken from our recent TweetSpeak Poetry jam on Twitter. All the prompts were lines from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. The Kingdom Comes II By @llbarkat, @SandraHeskaKing, @gyoung9751, @jestes, @Doallas, @jejpoet, @CeliaNickel1, @togetherforgood, @PensieveRobin, @kellysauer, @sethhaines, @theeagleacademy, @mdgoodyear, and @elizabethesther. Edited by @gyoung9751. I sailed a galleon, a […]
The Kingdom Comes I
This past Tueday, TweetSpeak Poetry hosted another poetry jam on Twitter. Fourteen intrepid souls participated, jamming to the prompts from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. And the poet himself joined us, and at the end offered this observation: “The poetry-tweet-jam is a thing like no other. An exquisite corpse on ritalin. Nice invention.” We […]
Get Historical in Pictures
If you want to join us, write a poem that focuses on a personal history—yours, an object’s, or another person’s.