Sandra Heska King takes a dare to commit more poetry for National Poetry Month. This time, it’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare (via Ian Doescher) Does Star Wars
Writer Ian Doescher has taken the stories of “Star Wars” and applied Shakespeare to them, as in “The Empire Striketh Back.”
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers:” Romeo & Juliet and Eleanor & Park
Did you like “Eleanor & Park”? You’ll love “Romeo & Juliet.” (Or vice versa.)
Reading in the Wild: February’s Pages
Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your February pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her February good reads.
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Shakespeare and Company: Playing the Fool Poetry Prompt
This week’s poetry prompt is for Fools. Put on your Jester hat and join us for some poetic and witty commentary in the style of the Shakespearean Fool.
Top 10 Best Shakespeare Sonnets
Odds are Shakespeare wrote far more than 154 sonnets. But of the 154 that have survived, here are 10 of the very best Shakespeare sonnets!
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
How awe makes us more generous, how rhythm can help dyslexic kids read, and how reading Ginsberg might get you fired. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Take Your Poet to Work: William Shakespeare
We kick off the release of our 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poets collection with the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.
Top 10 All-Time Posts at Tweetspeak Poetry
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).
About Shakespeare: Poet and Playwright
Those who write about Shakespeare often miss that his work pulls from humble origins and great achievements to reflect the universals of the human condition. Both his life and his works mirror the highs and lows of the age and its people.
Common Core Picture Poems: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
Engage with poems from the Common Core with a dose of humor, beginning with our Picture Poems. This week we consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Shakespeare in its original English. Or Shakespeare rewritten. Infographics, code poetry, bad real estate photos and artful cookies. Find all this and more in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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.
10 Fun Shakespeare Resources Online
In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday, enjoy this fun collection of Shakespeare resources from around the web.
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 POETIC PICKS
154 actors for 154 sonnets, exhuming Neruda, toddlers reciting poetry. Seth Haines has a brand new week of Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Breaking poetry lines on Twitter, Freud on daydreams and creativity, the best of the best in staff-pick bookshelves. It’s This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
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.
Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.