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Image-ine Poetry: “Jumprope, Pink Room” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave
Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, ponder children and a jump rope with poet Maureen Doallas and artist Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.
Our Favorite Books About Poetry
The Tweetspeak Poetry editorial team shares a list of our favorite books about poetry.
Poetry Classroom: Nuthatch
It’s poetry’s fault, this feathered specificity. Birds can’t be just birds anymore.
On Writing Poetry: Crafting Bells from Twigs
As winter diminishes, there is, always, a flourish of up notes in untended orchards, fierce and insistent as Mozart’s “Jagdsinfonie, ” though this is not a vigor that will result in the largest fruit, the highest productivity. Those trees are marvelous in their spindled wildness. A first draft, if you will, quilled and unruly. Wavering […]
Journey into Poetry: Zack Saloom
Armed with a finance degree, I tackled poetry like an equation to be solved. Zack Saloom’s Journey into Poetry.
Let’s Talk in Pictures
The sestina is a perfect form for conversation.
My Sestina is a Space Six-Shooter
My favorite poetic form, the sestina, gives me space to explore implication.