What do you do when the tap goes dry? Join our Children’s Book Club for a YA climate change thriller, “Dry.”
Poet-a-Day: Meet David Wright
How can you discover your poetic habits and create new ones that change your poetic music? Poet David Wright’s cello-based sonnet shows the way.
The Chocolate Artist—From Truffles to Gold Leaf
She never dreamed she’d be a Cacao Chemistry chocolate artist. Then a dream came true, and so did the ganache and gold leaf.
Poet-a-Day: Meet Katie Manning
What happens when you begin to erase parts of a text? Can poetry rise to the surface? Katie Manning made it so, with the book of Ecclesiastes.
Poet-a-Day: Meet Chip Livingston
What is your region inspiring you to write? For poet Chip Livingston, the shores of Uruguay simply begged to speak through a pantoum.
Book Club: Meet the Great Gatsby Characters—Couches Included!
In the first installment of our book club, Tania Runyan introduces The Great Gatsby characters—human and otherwise—and invites readers to a Gatsby sestina.
Road Trip!—Great Poets Read for National Poetry Month
Take a poetic trip with this fine group of talented poets—in a capstone evening reading event for National Poetry Month. Bring your travel mug and keys!
Poet-a-Day: Meet Dheepa Maturi
What if you have no words for a layered, mysterious experience? The ghazal might be just your form. It was for Dheepa Maturi, who speaks through dance.
Poet-a-Day: Meet Ashley M. Jones
What can the villanelle offer a poet? Ashley M. Jones has a suggestion—and a container for obsession or sorrow.
Pretty Close To ‘A’ — For Beverly Cleary
In honor of Beverly Cleary, author Callie Feyen reminisces about her first encounter with Newbery-award winner “Dear Mr. Henshaw.”
Reading Generously: ‘How to Write a Form Poem’ by Tania Runyan
Form poetry: not just for grad school anymore. Welcome to your guided tour of ‘How to Write a Form Poem,’ by Tania Runyan.
Poet-a-Day: Meet Marjorie Maddox
Why write a pantoum? Poet Marjorie Maddox shares her reasons, on the wings of poetry and song.
Poet Laura: National Poetry Month
As Spring blooms, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, is finding floral and poetic awakening in the garden just in time for National Poetry Month.
Poet-a-Day: Meet Celia Lisset Alvarez
Why write a sestina? Direct from Florida, poet Celia Lisset Alvarez gives you a few fabulous reasons.
National Poetry Month: How to Write a Form Poem!
Looking for a wonderful book to inspire you this National Poetry Month? Try out ‘How to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms.’
Poet-a-Day: Meet David K. Wheeler
How best to write tragedy? Poet David K. Wheeler suggests the soft sorrow of the pantoum.
National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light
This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.
Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 08—Zinfandel
Laurie Klein concludes her “Heart & Soil” Poems to Listen By podcast series with Jane Mead’s “Where the Zinfandel Pass Their Seasons in Mute Rows.”
50 States of Generosity: Wyoming
We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on Wyoming and its state fish: the cutthroat trout. Plus a poetry prompt!
Julius Caesar: Et Tu, Brute? Opposite Day and the Ides of March
For the Ides of March, Tania Runyan has a Julius Caesar “Opposite Day” poetry prompt.