This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Madonna recites Neruda, Kennedy memorizes Colderidge, Seinfeld drinks coffee. It’s poetry and more in Our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Custard the Cowardly Dragon (A Poetry Prompt)
A Tweetspeak poetry prompt involving Ogden Nash, Custard the cowardly dragon, and light verse.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Hi There Stars
Sometimes poetry is just begging not to be understood. In this week’s ‘poemcrazy’ book club installment, we’re invited to ‘not think, not understand.’
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: Listening to Ourselves
We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together at Tweetspeak for National Poetry Month. This week, we talk about listening to ourselves.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poetry Classroom: The Burden of Too Much Meaning
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—ask questions of Paula and each other, and write your own poems along the way. The Burden of Too Much Meaning for […]
Puff The Magic Dragon v. The Chupacabra (A Poetry Prompt)
Start April with some poetry about dragons and creatures, and a brand new creature-themed musical playlist to get your poetry juices flowing.
SNOW: a poem by James Longenbach
SNOW: a poem by James Longenbach
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy (Book Club Announcement)
Join us for our next book club title, ‘poemcrazy’ by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, just in time for National Poetry Month.
Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel
“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Journey into Poetry: Todd Davis
Poet Todd Davis shares his journey into poetry, inspired by his father.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The hair-splitting debate over split infinitives, 10x vs 10% better, Monopoly iron says farewell. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
An inaugural poetry primer, Bill Murray reading Dickinson poems to construction workers, and free books for the taking in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Writing Rituals: Starting with Tea
Tea goes with writing, writing starts with poetry. It’s a like a triangle with tea at the top, the left corner as poetry, and the right corner as my regular writing. Megan Willome, on tea and poetry,
Battle of the Beverages (Another Coffee Poetry Prompt)
The beverage wars are on. This week’s poetry prompt pits coffee against soft drinks (or any other drink, really) in a duel to the death.
Poetry Classroom: Immolation
Welcome to the Poetry Classroom. You are invited to discuss the poem ‘Immolation’—its form, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.