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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
A bot to write your poetry, rejection letter Bingo, using your boredom and writer’s block for good instead of evil. It’s another week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
National Poetry Month: poemcrazy: following words
We’re reading ‘poemcrazy: freeing your life with words’ together this month at Tweetspeak. Are you reading along?
The Poetics of Learning (and Loving) Language
The earthy poetry of Pablo Neruda hands me words I’ve never heard, but that make perfect and instant sense, words I was looking for without knowing.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Breaking poetry lines on Twitter, Freud on daydreams and creativity, the best of the best in staff-pick bookshelves. It’s This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity
Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.
5 Benefits of Collaborative Writing
Writing is a solitary pursuit, but collaboration can be helpful. New T.S. Poetry author Gillian Marchenko has 5 benefits to collaborative writing.
Memoir Notebook: Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference
Memoir Notebook is a new monthly (sometimes more) column. Today, to the Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Or maybe to the blind man on the street.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.
Leaving Books
Books are who I am–I am the sum total of every book I have read. Charity Singleton Craig reflects on parting with her book collection.
Personal Pantoum Fest (A Poetry Prompt)
Seth Haines tried his hand at this month’s theme. Writing a pantoum was an exercise in discipline, sticking to the strictures of a poetry form. And like it or not, the poetic form assisted in maintaining and conveying the chaotic sense of the story.
Journey into Poetry: Kathryn Neel
“I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect.” Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Why poetry matters, Stephen Colbert on design, bees conspiring to make art. It ‘s all in our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup on the Prairie
We round up another month of WordCandy quotes, poetry, photos with our Sweet Bloggers.
Writing with Your Senses: Interview with Bird Listener Heidi Betts
What the best writers know and master: good prose and poetry are made of concrete images drawn in specific detail. Writing with that level of detail means noticing even the tiniest, most subtle things. And that takes engaging your senses. Maureen Doallas interviews bird listener Heidi Betts about the power of observation.
Boost Your Haiku High-Q: How to Write a Haiku Infographic
One expert says haiku is “not fun.” He’s never been to Tweetspeak. We have a fun new infographic to help you Boost Your Haiku High-Q.
Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Speech
Poetry has considerable practical value for the business of speechwriting: using language differently, the power of poetic techniques, thinking differently.
Journey into Poetry: Todd Davis
Poet Todd Davis shares his journey into poetry, inspired by his father.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The hair-splitting debate over split infinitives, 10x vs 10% better, Monopoly iron says farewell. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poetry at Work: Dana Gioia on Poetry in Business
The conventional American wisdom is that poets “must be people out of the ordinary; they must be strong, even eccentric individuals.” In other words, Walt Whitman fits our preconceived notions; Wallace Stevens, corporate lawyer, does not.