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A Leopard’s Smile 2

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Below are four additional poems from Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party. The prompts for the jam all came from the play Richard II, by Wiliam Shakespeare.

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A Leopard’s Smile

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

It was a small but wildly enthusiastic group that met Tuesday night for the Twitter poetry party.

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An Interview with David Wheeler

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Last week, I posted an article here about reading poetry while waiting in line to vote. The poetry in question was Contingency Plans: Poems by David Wheeler. Today over at The High Calling is an interview with David about his poetry and writing. Below is some information from the interview about his background and upbringing. […]

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As Easy as Pie 2

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Below are seven more poems from our recent poetry jam (or was it poetry pie?) on Twitter.

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As Easy As Pie

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The Twitter poetry party topic was pie.

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Governments of Tea 7 (and the finale)

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

The final six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.

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Governments of Tea 6

By Glynn Young 14 Comments

Below are six more poems edited from our recent Twitter poetry party, all inspired and prompted by The Republic of Tea

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Governments of Tea 5

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Here are five more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party, with the prompts taken from The Republic of Tea

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Governments of Tea 4

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Tea poems you can drink up. Including Orion, catholic schools, and jazz. Not your ordinary fare.

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Governments of Tea 3

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Here are six more poems from our recent Twitter poetry party on Tea

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Governments of Tea 2

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Here are the next four poems from our recent Twitter poetry party. The subject of tea takes a business, then political,  and finally a personal, turn.

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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

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Robotics in Verse 4

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

This completes the series of poems from July’s Twitter poetry party here at TweetSpeak Poetry.

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Bring Your Own Tea to the Twitter Party

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

we’d like you to drink the tea of your choice at the party, and tweet a photo of your favorite tea cup sometime during the proceedings

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Robotics in Verse 3

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Here are seven more poems in our “Robotics in Verse” series from the recent Twitter poetry party.

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Robotics in Verse

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

At last Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party, all poetic prompts were from Robert Pinsky’s Death and the Powers

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On the Butterfly’s Blue Wing

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

For last Thursday’s Twitter poetry party, 10 of us virtually assembled

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Partying with the Barbies

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

We had our poetry jam on Twitter last night, and this time we did a kind of “event” around Marcus Goodyear’s newly published collection, Barbies at Communion: and other poems. So, yes, it was a Barbie-themed party, and it was wild. For the last three poetry jams, we’ve been featuring a new “tool” or Twitter […]

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Poems of Complication 4

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

The final eight poems from last week’s poetry jam on Twitter are below. Poems of Complication 4 By @mdgoodyear, @llbarkat, @PoemsPrayers, @mxings, @togetherforgood, @cascheller, @mmerubies, @MonicaSharman, @DancinButterfly, @thegypsymama, @TchrEric and @KathleenOverby. Not to mention @shrinkingcamel. Edited by @glynn_poet. Tattooed Tears My tears are tattooed to me; I wear them well, flex for all to see […]

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Poems of Complication 2

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Following are eight poems from last Tuesday’s poetry jam on twitter, ranging from plainness and fresh strawberries to a celebration of punctuation. Poems of Complication 2 By @mdgoodyear, @llbarkat, @PoemsPrayers, @mxings, @togetherforgood, @cascheller, @mmerubies, @MonicaSharman, @DancinButterfly, @thegypsymama, @TchrEric and @KathleenOverby. Not to mention @shrinkingcamel. Edited by @glynn_poet. Plainness I saw two plain women today. One […]

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