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Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Ever wonder what we’re reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Browse our Top Ten Posts from the last month (or so) and find out.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Writer’s Workshop: The Hero’s Journey for Storytellers

By T.S. Poetry 8 Comments

The Hero's Journey Spiral Staircase Tweetspeakpoetry.com

A hero’s journey writing workshop you won’t forget, with leader Gloria Kempton. Kempton has worked with over 10, 000 writers to get them to the next level!

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The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poets and Poems: Robinson Jeffers and “Selected Poetry”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poets and Poems at Tweetspeak Poetry

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was a significant poet in the 1920s and 1930s, and then forgotten until rediscovered by the environmental movement.

Filed Under: book reviews, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry and business, poetry reviews, Poets

Take Your Poet to Work Day: It’s About Access (and Ice Cream)

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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At its heart, like the ice cream truck peddling frozen treats on a stick, Take Your Poet to Work Day is about access. Enjoy some highlights from our annual celebration.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

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How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Poet Garden Party

Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day! Join us and your favorite poets for all the smart fun in workplaces around the world.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

The Poetry of World War I

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

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Tim Kendall’s anthology “Poetry of the First World War” explains how poetry came to be so connected with “the war to end all wars.”

Filed Under: Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, war poems

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Free Coloring Book

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

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We’re just days away from Take Your Poet to Work Day. Stop in and pick up a free Take Your Poet to Work coloring book to help you and your favorite poet get ready for the big day!

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Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. Meet our final poet in this year’s collection, Sylvia Plath.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Sylvia Plath, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Villanelles

Reading & Writing Workshops: Tolkien Lord of the Rings

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One ring to rule them all LOTR workshops tweetspeakpoetry.com

A Tolkien Workshop focusing on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, that will lead you to the depths (and back!)

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Take Your Poet to Work: Christina Rossetti

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

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Victorian poet Christina Rossetti is dressed and ready to go to work with you on Take Your Poet to Work Day.

Filed Under: Christina Rossetti, love poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work W.B. Yeats

Have you chosen your favorite poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day? W. B. Yeats joins our growing collection of ready-for-work poets today.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, Poems, Poets, Take Your Poet to Work Day, W. B. Yeats

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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The literary novel might be dead, how to get Stephen King’s royalties, wrestling Ulysses and haiku-izing your status update. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Take Your Poet to Work: John Keats

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work John Keats

Romantic poet John Keats trained as an apothecary. He’d be a great help in the lab this afternoon. He’s the latest in our Take Your Poet to Work collection.

Filed Under: Blog, John Keats, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Anna Akhmatova and the Poetry of Resilience

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Anna Akhmatova and the Poetry of Resilience Tweetspeak Poetry

Russian poet Anna Akhmatova experienced personal tragedy, war, revolution, civil war, and Stalinist repression, and still wrote haunting poetry.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Classic Poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Russian Poets

Take Your Poet to Work: Adrienne Rich

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day will be here before you know it. Get ready now with this week’s new poet, Adrienne Rich.

Filed Under: Adrienne Rich, love poems, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Woman Poems

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham Leave a Comment

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so).

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work: Langston Hughes

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

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Be the envy of your coworkers when you bring Langston Hughes to the office with you for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 16. He’s our first poet of 2014.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching Resources, Langston Hughes, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

National Student Poet: Michaela Coplen (Part 2): Advocating for Poetry

By Maureen Doallas 4 Comments

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As a National Student Poet, Michaela Coplen has a goal “to spread appreciation of poetry at all levels…to encourage people to make poetry a part of their daily lives, reading, writing, or listening to one poem a day.”

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