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Blokes Who Write Bad Poetry: Black Bart

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 17 Comments

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With twenty-seven robberies and two poems to his credit, Black Bart was a legend. Kimberlee Conway Ireton answers with a poem to Black Bart.

Filed Under: Blog, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry

Operation Poetry Dare: I Can’t Dance to It

By Nancy Franson 52 Comments

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Nancy Franson continues her experimental poetry dare, trying to work out the rhythm of a new dance partner.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources

Take Your Poet to Work: Edgar Allan Poe

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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Ever wish you could take your favorite poet to work? Now you can. Edgar Allan Poe joins our featured poets for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 17.

Filed Under: poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Last Month’s Top Ten Posts on Tweetspeak Poetry

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources, Top 10 Poetic Picks

WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup: Star Trek Style

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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We round up another month (or two) of sweet treats from our WordCandy Sweet Bloggers — Star Trek Style.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, WordCandy

Hand-Selected Poem a Day, Just $5.99

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

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Read a poem a day. With Every Day Poems, you get a year of happy mornings for just $5.99.

Filed Under: Every Day Poems, Poems, poetry

Getting Poetry to the People – The Wall Poems of Charlotte

By Amy Bagwell 12 Comments

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People deserve access to poetry, which belongs to them. So why not paint poems onto buildings? Amy Bagwell on The Wall Poems of Charlotte.

Filed Under: Literary Tour, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: Rumi

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

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Ever wish you could take your favorite poet along with you to work? You know, have Rumi help you mix the chemicals for that lab experiment you’re working on. Or serve up a poet on a stick along with the sandwiches to your lunch customers. With Take Your Poet to Work Day just around the corner, now you can.

Filed Under: Anniversary Poems, Attentiveness Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Rumi Poems, Short Poems, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

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Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: T.S. Eliot

By Will Willingham 43 Comments

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Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring poet T.S. Eliot.

Filed Under: Cat Poems, Funny Poems, Humorous Poems, poetry, poetry humor, T.S. Eliot, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

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Cats and poetry, caffeine and creativity, painting memes and tweeting the OED. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work: The Haiku Masters

By Will Willingham 29 Comments

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Our first poet collection releases for Take Your Poet to Work Day: The Haiku Masters (Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa)

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Blog, Cat Poems, Funny Poems, Haiku, Haiku Poems, Humorous Poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 5 Comments

The question of art, children’s poetry, and the scientific uses of poetry–It’s all in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Realities Reflected (A Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 17 Comments

The slanted, off-kilter fun-house bedroom emptied into a narrow a corridor, a hallway with mirrored walls. The lights were bright, fluorescent lit, and gave the general impression of being trapped inside that Bruce Lee classic, Enter the Dragon.  My three boys and I stopped, noticed the hundreds of us-es that seemed to stretch around slight reflective […]

Filed Under: Blog, Mirror Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Take Your Poet to Work: Pablo Neruda

By Will Willingham 43 Comments

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Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring poet Pablo Neruda.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

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Apps that analyze your writing voice, your poetry, your reading preferences. It’s all in the math and science of This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Journey into Poetry: Marjorie Maddox

By Marjorie Maddox 13 Comments

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Marjorie Maddox was always a bookworm—as a child reading in the branches of trees, upside down on a couch, and, of course, in bed with a flashlight. Follow her Journey into Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, journey into poetry, poetry

Take Your Poet to Work: Sara Teasdale

By Will Willingham 55 Comments

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Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring Sara Teasdale.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Sara Teasdale, Take Your Poet to Work Day

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 3

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Twitter poetry

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