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By Heart: ‘What Men Die For Lack Of’ + New Christina Rossetti Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

poky white weed

You’d be surprised by what men die for lack of. So, we’re going on a poem hunt to make things better. Plus, we’re learning an Abigail Carroll poem about poetry By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Carl Sandburg, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Plath, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman

By Heart: Fall In Love With Poetry + New Abigail Carroll Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Hauraki Gulf, Australia

Do you want to fall in love with poetry? Memorize a poem (or thirty-six). This By Heart column shows how—with time and tea.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Poems about poetry, Poetry Memorization

New York City Meetup with Tweetspeak Poetry

By L.L. Barkat 20 Comments

Candles by Jess Damen Tweetspeak Poetry Meetup

Tweetspeak Poetry is planning a New York City Meetup this spring! So many details to come. And arrangements to be made.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, Short Poems

A Poetry Dare for Will Oldham, the Anti-Poetry Guy

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

will oldham poetry dare

Will Oldham’s June 1, 2012 column in Poetry magazine from the Poetry Foundation has sparked a lot of controversy. It’s actually pretty poetic.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems about poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poets at Home

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poets at home deserve poems. So we wrote them, on Twitter.

Filed Under: Camel Poems, Humanity Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry

Poems on Poetry

By Glynn Young 13 Comments

Where do poems hide? Dogwood sweet, shaded near my feet, reaching dark-limbed to serve up day. They also hide until people die, kicking at the dirt.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, Poems about poetry, poems about writing, poetry, Short Poems, Twitter poetry

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