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Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

twitter poetry top ten poetic tweets

Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” It’s Twitter Poetry. Maybe it didn’t even mean to be a poem, but it’s a poetic thing all the same. It’s a way of using words well.

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Top Ten Poetic Tweets: Moon Poems Edition

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

moon poems

To help us in our quest to put poetry on the moon, we put out a call on Twitter for moon poems. Here are 10 of our favorites.

Filed Under: Blog, Moon poems, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

twitter poetry top ten poetic tweets

Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” Maybe it didn’t even mean to be a poem, but it’s a poetic thing all the same. It’s a way of using words well. Here are ten of the best poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks.

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Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets (The Polar Vortex Edition)

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

twitter poetry poetic tweets

In this week’s Top Ten Poetic Tweets, we’re featuring Twitter poetry of the polar vortex, lines of snow, ice, wind and bitter cold as we shiver toward this weekend’s promised warmer temperatures.

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Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

twitter poetry top ten poetic tweets

Sometimes, we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” A way of using words well. Here are the top 10 poetic tweets we’ve seen on Twitter lately.

Filed Under: poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

top ten poetry tweets

Sometimes, we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” A way of using words well. Here are the top 10 poetic tweets we’ve seen on Twitter lately.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

twitter poetry

Sometimes, we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” Here are ten of the best poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Twitter Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

We’re hosting a Twitter Poetry Party tonight. To get you warmed up, here are ten of the best poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry humor, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

top ten poetic tweets

Sometimes, it so happens we read a tweet and say, “That’s poetry.” Here are ten of the top poetic tweets we’ve seen in the last few weeks.

Filed Under: Blog, Top Ten Poetic Tweets, Twitter poetry

Top Ten Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

top ten poetic tweets

We spend a lot of time on Twitter. (We’re Tweetspeak Poetry, right?) In fact, we figure we read thousands of tweets every month. Sometimes, we read a tweet and say to ourselves, “That’s poetry.” We want to take notice.

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Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 3

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Six additional poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts taken from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”

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Twitter Poetry: Spinning for Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 2

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

The next six poems edited from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter Poetry jam, with the prompts from Annie Dillard’s “Tickets for a Prayer Wheel.”

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Twitter Poetry: Spinning Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

It was some Twitter poetry party. Get ready for a bank, some actors, fish, a scarlet waterfall, and bananas. Bananas?

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

A Ticket to National Poetry Month: Twitter Poetry Party

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

National Poetry Month starts Monday. Tweetspeak will be your go-to place for tickets to the best in poetry all month long. Your first ticket is one of our favorites: Tweetspeak will host a Twitter Poetry Party on Thursday, from 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST.

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Poetry at Work: A Tweetspeak New Year’s Resolution

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

poetry of resolutions

Glynn Young reflects on a particular kind of resolution, the kind that comes from commitment and determination–the kind that created Tweetspeak Poetry.

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Twitter Poetry: Of Shells, Fireworks, and Novellas

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

twitter poetry shells

Glynn Young has five new poems from the recent Tweetspeak Twitter poetry jam, with prompts from the novella “The Novelist.”

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Did Someone Say Twitter Poetry Party?

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

You heard right. It’s that time again. Tweetspeak will host a Twitter Poetry Party on Tuesday, October 9, from 9:30-10:30 p.m. EST. Wonder how these things work? @tspoetry will provide a prompt — could be a thought, a line of poetry, a short quote or even a headline. You write a line of poetry on Twitter […]

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Matthew Kreider 7 Comments

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

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July Mosaics: Juxtaposition

By Matthew Kreider 17 Comments

Years ago, I had the privilege of rubbing eyeballs with royalty. Flanked by an impressive retinue of distinguished figure heads, the fair-skinned and curly-haired king stood before a hushed audience at my university and delivered a cultural manifesto on the artist’s role in creating the juxtaposition of political and religious imagery to benefit and protect society.

But I was more interested in his shoes.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

July Mosaics: Community

By Matthew Kreider 21 Comments

A few days after we announced our July Mosaics project, someone left us a tiny confession in the comment box. “When this idea was first posted, wrote Rosanne Osborne, “I admit I was dubious, but it’s been amazing to me how generative the experience has been.”

Filed Under: Every Day Poems, poetry, Themed Writing Projects

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