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Writers Workshop: Becoming Mindful in Place-Begins June!

By T.S. Poetry 22 Comments

Becoming Mindful Writers Workshop on Mindfulness and Place

Are you interested in slowing down and developing a deeper creative process and writing life? Becoming mindful of the places that surround you is a great beginning. Let this workshop guide and inspire.

Filed Under: Blog, Workshops

Top 10 Reasons to Re-Read ‘Rumors of Water’

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Top Ten Reasons to Read Rumors of Water

What’s your favorite writing book? LW Lindquist says it’s time to re-read Rumors of Water and has 10 great quotes to tell you why.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Rumors of Water, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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Writing conferences pert’near South Dakota, making carrots into clarinets, art you can’t see unless it’s raining. It has to be our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

By Dolly Lee 10 Comments

Cantor Art Center

Join Dolly Lee on her latest literary tour and explore the wide range of contemporary art in the collection at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Blog, Literary Tour

Poetry in Public: The Poet as ‘Unacknowledged Legislator’

By Charity Singleton Craig 32 Comments

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When did poetry become a private pursuit? Charity Singleton Craig explores the role of poetry in changing public discourse.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry for Life

On Being a Writer Workshop

By L.L. Barkat 32 Comments

On Being a Writer Workshop

A writing workshop that will help you develop a satisfying, lasting writing life. Learn from two great editors who’ve developed successful long-term careers.

Filed Under: Blog, Workshops, writer's group resources

The Fierce Convictions of Hannah More

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

“She may be the most famous person I never heard of.” Karen Swallow Prior’s biography of Hannah More, “Fierce Convictions, ” brings a life back into the knowledge it deserves.

Filed Under: book reviews, Books, Classic Poetry, Poems, poetry, Poets

A Book of Middles: Silver Dream

By L.L. Barkat 25 Comments

Green Leaf Book of Middles

What does a “middle” look like in a story? Or, how do you perhaps begin a story “in medias res”? The Book of Middles explores these questions and more.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction

The World War I Poets in the War

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Max Egremont’s “Some Desperate Glory” combines history, biography and poetry to describe the World War I that the war poets experienced.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Poems, poetry, Poets, war poems

Memoir Notebook: Voices (or, How to Write Spiritual Memoir)

By Anthony Connolly 5 Comments

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Heed the voices, says Wm. Anthony Connolly, for they are the memoirist’s own rising from the soul.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, writer's group resources

Reading Ulysses: Mischief in the Woods

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Reading Ulysses in Fall Woods

What can reading Ulysses in the woods teach us about changing education and throwing out the idea of homework? A whole lot.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Courage Poems, English Teaching Resources, Hero's Journey Poems, Humanity Poems, Incidentally, Read for Fun, Travel Poems

Literary Tour: David Levinthal’s “MAKE BELIEVE” Exhibit at San Jose Museum of Art

By Dolly Lee 16 Comments

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Visit David Levinthal’s ‘MAKE BELIEVE’ exhibit at San Jose Museum of art, with cultural images such as Barbie, baseball, World War II and sexual politics.

Filed Under: Art, Art Galleries and Exhibits, Literary Tour

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Your novel’s optimum length is shorter than a bridge. A literary time capsule. Team building for the self-employed. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work

A Poetry Dare. I Really Don’t Care.

By Ed Cyzewski 17 Comments

Light Switch Poetry Dare

We’ve extended a poetry dare. And the subject is not quite willing. What will happen to Ed over the next 30 days?

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry Dare

Top 10 Best Mirror Poems

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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Poems make wonderful mirrors, excellent tools for self-reflection. We’ve gathered up a collection of 10 great mirror poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, poetry

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa

By L.L. Barkat 7 Comments

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Got an interest in haiku? The Essential Haiku is a great place to start. That, and the soup bowl.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Haiku, Haiku Poems

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

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Ever wonder what we’re reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Browse our Top Ten Posts from the last month (or so) and find out.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Top 10 YA and Children’s Books

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 28 Comments

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Kimberlee Conway Ireton shares her top 10 YA and children’s books (actually, 17 or so).

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Children's Stories, Classic Books

Top Ten Independence Poems

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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All of us want a little independence; some of us want a lot. Which is to say that independence isn’t only a political thing. Celebrate (or keep reaching) with these 10 great independence poems.

Filed Under: Independence Poems, Poems, Red Poems

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