Join us in celebrating Tweetspeak’s 10th birthday today, October 3, 2019. And, in remembering the amazing story of what can happen when a few good friends start something fun and life-giving together.
We look forward to bringing you more years of goodness! Thank you for being by our side.
Featured cake image by Sonia Barkat. Used with permission.
Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry
I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
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Maureen says
I think back to that first online conversation with L.L., about joining in with this group I’d discovered. . . thank you for keeping me writing, Tweetspeak. Thank you for your support and the off-line friendships that developed, for 10 years of beauty in the literary arts, for lots of fun during Twitter Poetry Parties, for all the interviews you let me write for you, for Imag-ine, for your encouragement. I’m still writing, and every so often still getting published. None of this probably would have happened but for you.
L.L. Barkat says
It is still our great pleasure to have published your work, from articles to a whole poetry book. We know that you are quite familiar with the literary arts (and the arts in general), so your partnership has been extra special to us, because we understand it is not given lightly or without wider context.
Keep writing. We still need (and love) your voice. 🙂
Maureen says
Thank you, Laura.
Donna Falcone says
Happy Birthday to Tweetspeak! My how you’ve grown! I see many good things in your future, not least of which is poetry on the moon!
L.L. Barkat says
You were always there for us in our moon visions, Donna. Thank you. We’re grateful for how you’ve been there as we’ve grown.
Nancy Franson says
So delighted to be included on the infographic. Just wanted to let you know – I still read a poem or two, from time to time.
Happy Birthday TSP!
Lane Arnold says
Delicious delightful decade of whimsical wonderful words splashed poetically playful here & there & around the curve of tomorrow.
So glad for your endless invitation to prose & poetry. You just keep on inspiring!
Joyfully,
Lane
Laura Lynn Brown says
So much to celebrate! Look what all your vision has let to, L.L.
This may be the longest infographic in the history of infographics. Great work, Will. I especially like those bookshelves.
I think my point of entry into Tweetspeak was a Twitter party in March of 2012. I’m grateful to be a part of this, and to have met so many wonderful people. Let’s go for another ten.
Will Willingham says
You know, I think there may be a longer one that I did, but yes, this one seemed to go on and on and on. Just when I thought I’d captured the yearly highlights, we’d remember something else. And there’s so much that … didn’t make the cut.
Such a terrific place and people.
Laurie Klein says
Brava, Tweetspeak! Laura, you and your stellar team amaze me. Your combined vision, generosity, artistry, eloquence, wit, joy, and endless inventiveness is inspiring and downright contagious. I’m so glad to have met some of you in person. Here’s to another rich and rollicking decade!
Isabelle G. Schlegel says
Days and soon a decade
Dreams whisper powerful slurs
Delighted pockets of thought
And bundles of timeless words.
Oh how you inspire
The mountains in the sky
To stand up tall and pose
For a passing poet’s eye.
You were at the opening
Of every sunflower
And the home for many
seeds,
You are at the closing
Of every book
To live on in whispering dreams.
Will Willingham says
I so love that last stanza. Seems Tweetspeak has been that for many of us. 🙂
Charity Singleton Craig says
What a wonderful celebration … 10 years! Congratulations. So thankful to have a couple of books on the Tweetspeak shelves and to be part of the community.
Bethany R. says
This infographic rocks, Will.
Happy birthday indeed, dear TSP! L.L. & Team: What creative joy and sincere kindness you’ve brought into my life and countless others. Thank you!
Will Willingham says
Thanks Charity, and thank you for all the ways you’ve helped Tweetspeak become what it is today. 🙂
Will Willingham says
Whoops, hit reply on the wrong comment. But I was on my way to talk to you anyway, Bethany. 😉 It’s been a joy, and that’s also because of you and your part of the community, too. 🙂
Bethany says
Thank you, Will! 🙂
Rick Maxson says
The weight of the poem I could not write, I have written, because you said I could. And I am so grateful for having Tweetspeak and Every Day Poems and all the amazing people who make it happen.
Happy Birthday! These are the balloons to let fly into the wind and bring others here as well.
Will Willingham says
“Because you said I could…”
Not sure if that refers to permission or to capability, but this has certainly been a place that has made space for both. So glad you found it, Rick, and wrote the poem.
Monica Sharman says
Whoa, that’s a lot of books. And the infographics! I love all the infographics! I believe the first one was “Read a Poem Today” in 2012, yes?
Twitter just notified me that this is my 10th anniversary of joining Twitter, so I told Twitter it was because of you.
Also, Tweetspeak and I share the same birth month. Opal is our birthstone. 🙂