Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, welcomes Spring with a reflection on gardening and flower poems.
Poet Laura: The Beats, National Poetry Month, and Earth Day
Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, finds common ground with the Beat poets, National Poetry Month and Earth Day.
Poet Laura: The Consequence of Cats
Go on the prowl this month with Sandra Fox Murphy, our 2025 Poet Laura, for some cat poem sleuthing and housecat bossing.
Poet Laura: A Concert in the General Store
Sandra Fox Murphy writes about music’s intersections with time, place and poetry, travelling from a general store in West Virginia to the grackles on a power line in west Texas.
Poet Laura: A January Pilgrimage
Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, takes readers on a Southern pilgrimage for this January and new year. Where might you travel in 2025?
Poet Laura: A Cuppa Comfort for the Holiday
Sandra Fox Murphy brews ritual with coffee and tea poems in this month’s Poet Laura column.
Poet Laura: What’s In a Name
Tweetspeak’s new Poet Laura, Sandra Fox Murphy, starts her year as Poet Laura with a poetic reflection on names and naming.
Poet Laura: Message in a Bottle
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega drops a message in a bottle for Random Acts of Poetry Day and passes the feather to our new Poet Laura.
Poet Laura: Poems for Liminal Times
Our Poet Laura, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega, shares thoughts and poems of fall as the seasons begin their changing.
Poet Laura: Chicken Dreams
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, visits a farm and finds chickens, goats and even Simon the pig coaxing along her dreams.
Poet Laura: Chocolate Elemental
This month Michelle Rinaldi Ortega, our Poet Laura, explores flower-infused dark chocolate and writes chocolate poems.
Poet Laura: The Tapestry of Poetry
In this month’s Poet Laura, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega visits the Met Cloisters and invites readers to pen a Mixtape poem.
Poet Laura: Moon Landing
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega continues her Poet Laura journey, taking us on a lunar flyby writing and sharing some moon poems.
Poet Laura: Possibilities
This National Poetry Month, our Poet Laura, Michelle Ortega, postpones reading poems to chickens and considers other poetic possibilities.
Poet Laura: Tea Journey
Michelle Rinaldi Ortega takes Poet Laura on a journey from Seven Bowls of Tea to 100 coffee shops as tiny pearls of a flowering tea unfurl.
Poet Laura: Journeys
Our Poet Laura, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega, begins our 2024 year of Journeys with travel to Paris and Phoenix and the contrasts between.
Poet Laura: In the Quiet—Poetry and Invitation
In the quiet January snow, our Poet Laura, Michelle Ortega, offers up a new invitation to poetry and to drop something new into a poem.
Poet Laura: The Gifts that Darkness Brings
In this month’s Poet Laura, Michelle Ortega explores the gifts of the darkness and the wonder of its illumination.
Poet Laura: Trees, Seasons, and Planting
Michelle Ortega, Tweetspeak’s incoming Poet Laura, reflects on the changing seasons, a walking homecoming, and trees dying and planted.
Poet Laura: Goodbye—and Hello!
Dheepa R. Maturi bids farewell as 2023’s Poet Laura while she announces and welcomes her successor for 2024. Find out who takes up the feather and where you can find Dheepa in the year to come.