At this month’s Twitter poetry party, you’ll get the chance to write with poet John Estes.
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Glass Slipper Sonnets
Does a writing a sonnet feel like an ill fit? This fun glass slipper essay will make it (a little) easier.
The Cinnamon Beetle 6
Six poems and 16 fragments – the last of our poems developed from the recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 5
Below are five poems and five fragments pulled from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 4
Our recent Twitter poetry party swirled around oceans and ashes, a drive down side roads, the telephone and how something as mundane as burning the toast becomes something else again.
Let’s Talk in Pictures
The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.
The Cinnamon Beetle 3
We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
My Sestina is a Space Six-Shooter
My favorite poetic form, the sestina, gives me space to explore implication.
The Cinnamon Beetle 2
Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle
Somehow, Legos, cinnamon beetles, tattoos and open windows became the focus of the early part of our Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 5
Below are the final five poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 4
Something unusual happened with this group during the Twitter poetry party; you’ll see it in the last two poems.
Write Your First Sestina: It’s a Matter of Pride
The sestina, like a song, helps us say what we want to say without really saying it.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 3
Below are three additional poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
What Color is Your Poem?
Our featured poet and photographer for the color writing and photography prompt.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 2
We have three more poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar
Last Thursday night, there was another gathering of the Tweetspeakers for a Twitter poetry party.
Of Parasols and Scorpions 3
Below are the next six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Of Parasols and Scorpions 2
Here is the next group of six poems taken from our recent Twitter poetry party. Somehow the contributions moved from love to an apocalypse of weather to the planets and then to Hamlet’s voicemail
Of Parasols and Scorpions
Last week, seven of us (and a few lost souls who wandered in and promptly left, determined to stay lost) joined together for our Twitter poetry party.