We learn how to become a better writer as we join Kathryn Neel on the dock and consider how to make peace with the dark.
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How to Become a Better Writer: Leonardo Artist Date
Kathryn Neel learned how to become a better writer with help from Leonardo da Vinci and wide-eyed children who easily embraced the playfulness of genius.
Poets and Poems: Talking About Movies with Jesus
A review of David Kirby’s “Talking About Movies with Jesus: Poems” that uses the style of the poems as the structure of the review.
Artist Date: Getting the Mail
Ready for an Artist Date? Lace up your red sneakers and let’s go walk out to pick up the mail.
Artist Date: Indian River Lagoon
My Artist Date found me paddle-boarding among the barrier islands of the Indian River Lagoon near my home here in Florida.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Stunning art from old books, Poe vs. the Ravens, poetry in outer space, and why technology is in need of a good metaphor. This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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 […]
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton. 1 Art Mandy Kahn creates community poetry installations. For art galleries. At least, that’s the dream. It’s sort of like improv comedy using lines of poetry, only a lot more lyrical. Al Black used to travel the roads of Florida selling paintings […]
Rumors of Water: Play
With Spring coming into full bloom, I’m still doing all the same serious things I did all winter long. But I get up a little earlier and I read a poem (or two) every day.
Meet Our Team
L.L. Barkat, Creator, Tweetspeak Poetry, T. S. Poetry Press, Every Day Poems, and Poetic Earth Month I’m a former educator who believes in the heart of a teacher and the soul of a student, and I’m currently giving my own heart and soul to bringing beauty and joy to the education process through the many […]
National Poetry Month: Maureen Doallas
Maureen Doallas is one of our regular contributors to the Tweetspeak Poetry-sponsored poetry jams on Twitter. She writes beautiful words, and not just poetry. She blogs at Writing Without Paper, where she covers poetry, art and culture in general – and covers them comprehensively and with great depth and insight. Below are two of Maureen’s poems. […]