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Inspired: 8 ways to write poems you can love

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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A simple ebook from T.S. Poetry Press might be all you need to get yourself writing a little poetry. If all else fails, cheesecake.

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Writing Rituals: Starting with Tea

By Megan Willome 28 Comments

Choice Organic Darjeeling Tea Writers Rituals

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,

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, poetry, Poetry Rituals, Tea Poems, Writing Rituals

Poetry at Work: What Poetry Brings to Business

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

In “What Poetry Brings to Business, ” Clare Morgan combines academic and business styles to explain the benefits poetry can provide to business enterprises.

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Battle of the Beverages (Another Coffee Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 19 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, poetry, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Poetry Classroom: Immolation

By Anne M. Doe Overstreet 12 Comments

Icarus Poem photo by Sean McGrath

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.

Filed Under: Blog, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 7 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art Have you ever been perusing Twitter and decided that you wanted to know the story behind the tweet? (The 140-character limitation is a bit of a story killer. Right?) If so, then check out this article about conceptual artists Nate Larson and […]

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Give and Take: The Paradoxical Function of Art

By L.L. Barkat 6 Comments

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It has been my peculiar experience as a poet to explain to people what they are seeing, albeit through what can feel like an added layer of obscurity. L.L. Barkat on the explanation of art, more or less.

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Poetry at Work: Poetry at Work Day

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Fortune 500 professional Glynn Young pinpoints almost the exact time he became aware that poetry inhabited his work. He was a corporate speechwriter…

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Poetry at Work Day Survival Kit

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

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Want to celebrate Poetry at Work Day in your workplace? We’ve gathered a great collection of resources in our Poetry at Work Day Survival Kit to get you started.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

How Do You Take It? (A Coffee Poetry Prompt)

By Seth Haines 21 Comments

coffee poetry prompt

Cream is only good when it’s fronted by Eric Clapton, and the highest form of coffee sacrilege is its dilution with dairy. That’s one man’s opinion. What about you? How you take it? Seth Haines has another poetry prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

1870 Illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Read The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and enjoy delightful read-alouds and animations that adults and children will both love!

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Brooklyn Subway: The Poetry of Crossword Puzzles

By Elizabeth Marshall 9 Comments

We dream here at Tweetspeak of poetry in the subways. Elizabeth Marshall and friends, via the Art Bus Project, did just that.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry at Work

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama’s new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Tea Conversion: My “Come to Rooibos” Moment

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

How a hardcore coffee drinker turns to tea is something science can’t explain. A “come to rooibos” moment.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee and Tea, poetry

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Unemployment

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Organizations see layoffs as business decisions; people affected see them as intensely personal. Unemployment is a part of work, and part of poetry at work.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poets, work poems

The Poetry of Injury: Inside Down Syndrome & Kimani

By T.S. Poetry 13 Comments

Kimani is a four-year-old girl with Down syndrome and a brain injury. She is visually impaired, wildly impulsive, and very cute. In this collection, she paints herself from the inside out.

Filed Under: Art, Art and Disabilities, Down syndrome, poetry, visual poetry

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

Video Poem: This is What Tomorrow Looks Like

By Will Willingham Leave a Comment

On a train from Sydney to Melbourne, four family members each write a short poem with the same title.

Filed Under: Poems, poetry, Videos, visual poetry

Sweet Bloggers Roundup: WordCandy from Tumblr

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

word candy sweet blogger

We round up the month’s posts from our WordCandy 100 Sweet Bloggers.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, WordCandy

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 6 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art There is a split of authority in my house. I tend to identify with the poetry of William Carlos Williams—so much depends upon that red wheelbarrow. I imagine the objects of Williams’ poetry, perhaps attaching a bit of unwarranted sentimentality or nostalgia […]

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