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Top Ten Reasons We Dare You to Give an English Teacher “How to Read a Poem”

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

Give a teacher how to read a poem tweetspeakpoetry.com

We dare you to give “How to Read a Poem” to an English teacher. Here are our Top 10 reasons, plus a giveaway.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, poetry, Poetry Dare, poetry teaching resources

A Poetry Dare for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 128 Comments

Poetry Dare standing on the wall

Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining in our first ever large group Poetry Dare. Read a poem a day with us, with the daily offerings from Every Day Poems or a choose a poet to read for the month.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Poetry Dare

How to Read a Poem: The Book

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

How to Read a Poem Sunglasses

For the reader new to poetry, Runyan’s guide will open your senses to the combined craft and magic known as “poems”. For the well versed, if you will, the book might make you fall in love again.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, English Teaching Resources, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Get Featured in Our How to Read a Poem Top 10!

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Toby and How to Read a Poem 565

Would you like to get featured in some of our upcoming How to Read a Poem Top 10s? Tweet your ideas, your poems, or your pictures to @tspoetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Getting Published, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry Classroom: My Daughter’s Hair

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Red Poetry by Sonia Joie

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Tania Runyan. Today’s poem will leave you wanting red.

Filed Under: Blog, color poems, Poems, poetry, Poetry Classroom

Poetry Classroom: Sestina for Brood XIII

By Tania Runyan 9 Comments

We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises. Up today? A sestina.

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

Poetry Classroom: The Goldfish Pond

By Tania Runyan 23 Comments

Poetry Classroom Goldfish Pond

Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan. Up today, the innocence and wisdom of the goldfish pond.

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

Flash Fiction Friday: Digitalis

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

flash fiction foxglove

Tania Runyan plays in the world of flash fiction with a new piece, exploring the dangers of following one’s imagination.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, writer's group resources

This Year’s Top 10 Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

top 10 poetry

The editors have culled our very favorite links from our weekly Top 10 Poetic Picks from 2012.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Flash Fiction Friday: The Music Box

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Tania Runyan’s latest offering for Flash Fiction Friday, in honor of every awkward teenager and music box that did her in.

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction

Flash Fiction Friday: The Coffee Shop

By Tania Runyan 8 Comments

flash fiction coffee bean

Poet and Every Day Poems editor Tania Runyan continues her Friday forays into the world of flash fiction with this provocative scene from a coffee shop.

Filed Under: Blog, Everyday Tweets, Fiction

Caught Flashing

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Everyone knows writing conferences can get a little crazy. In fact, this normally prim poet was just caught flashing at the Midwest Writers Workshop. Fiction flashing, that is. I should have seen it coming. I hadn’t written fiction in nearly two decades, was let loose in Muncie, Indiana, without my husband and kids, and was […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fiction, Short Story, writing prompts

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

1 Art Whatever you might think about a certain television network’s coverage of the London Olympic games, it’s been outright brilliant next to history’s treatment of art as an Olympic sport. Art competitions were a part of the games in the early twentieth century, until they fell apart over distinguishing amateur from professional. Judges couldn’t […]

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Journey into Poetry: Tania Runyan

By Tania Runyan 13 Comments

Journey into Poetry: Tania Runyan

I know poetry is where I’m meant to be. I just can’t escape it.

Filed Under: journey into poetry

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 10 Comments

The best in poetry, (and poetic things), this week with Matthew Kreider.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Tania Runyan’s “A Thousand Vessels”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

A poetry review of A Thousand Vessels.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, poetry

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