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Top 10 All-Time Posts at Tweetspeak Poetry

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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We have no super-secret algorithms but through a process that’s one part data, one part intuition, one part special sauce, we’ve gathered the 10 most popular posts in the Tweetspeak archives (from all time).

Filed Under: Blog, Catalog Poems, Ghazal Poems, Poetry Classroom, Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry Classroom: Thoreau Considers a Stone

By Todd Davis 12 Comments

Ice poems ice poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Up today, “Thoreau considers a stone.”

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Blog, Dream Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: The Wake of Our Sleep

By Todd Davis 8 Comments

Poetry Classroom Winter Scene

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Up today, “What Lives in the Wake of Our Sleep.”

Filed Under: Blog, Family Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, Winter Poems

Poetry Classroom: Dona Nobis Pacem

By Todd Davis

Poetry Classroom Love Poems Todd Davis Poems

Our poetry classroom is a wonderful way to discuss and enjoy poems, with published poets and teachers. Up today: Dona Nobis Pacem.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: Kansas

By David Clark Wright 3 Comments

Car Headlight Poetry

Our poetry classroom features an Americana poem: “Kansas.” Discuss with the poet!

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: Iowa Tocatta

By David Clark Wright 6 Comments

Iowa Poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet and professor David Wright. Come discuss “Iowa” at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Music Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: Something to Amaze

By Julie L. Moore 9 Comments

Birches Poetry

Welcome to the poetry classroom. Come discuss the effects of cataloging, sound, and subtle visuals.

Filed Under: Attentiveness Poems, Blog, Catalog Poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems, Weather Poems

Poetry Classroom: Extra Towels

By Marjorie Maddox 17 Comments

white towel poetry

Welcome to our Poetry Classroom. This week we’re discussing luxurious towels. Or are we?

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems, writer's group resources

Poetry Classroom: Mohawk January

By Daniel Bowman 16 Comments

Poetry Ashes

Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: Directions

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

Poetry Compass by Walt Stoneburner

Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.

Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: April Poem

By Daniel Bowman 13 Comments

poetry fog by gmeaders_ch

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: Walking Through the Dream

By Daniel Bowman 21 Comments

plum tree poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing walking through the dream of a stranger.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: The Hypochondriac’s Question

By Paula J Lambert 12 Comments

Bird Cage Poetry

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. Today’s poem “The Hypochondriac’s Question to the Woman with Synesthesia”

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

Poetry Classroom: The Burden of Too Much Meaning

By Paula J Lambert 20 Comments

Poetry Strawberry Leaf

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 […]

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Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)

By Karen Swallow Prior 29 Comments

Classic Art Lovers Painting Fragonard

In this month’s poetry classroom, author and literature professor Karen Swallow Prior will be treating us to a discussion of classic love poetry—beginning with Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, shakespeare poems

Poetry Classroom: Public Safety Film

By Anne M. Doe Overstreet 34 Comments

In the poetry classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Poetry Classroom: Hard Road by Li Bai

By Brett Foster 31 Comments

Li Bai was one of China’s most important poets. Read about his intriguing life and experience one of his insightful, even subtly witty, poems.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

National Poetry Month: Gary Soto

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Need poetry teaching resources? Check out our collection of poets, poems, and poetry classroom discussions led by poets and professors.

Filed Under: Family Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets, School Poems, Tattoo Poems

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