Meet Tweetspeak’s incoming Poet Laura, Dheepa Maturi, who promises a deep exploration of chocolate and an invitation to walk lightly together.
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Children’s Book Club: ‘Vitamina T for Tacos’
An entire alphabet book about tacos? In Spanglish? Join our Children’s Book Club and read “Vitamina T for Tacos.”
Poet Laura: Passing on the Laura-ship
Karen Paul Holmes bids farewell as she concludes her term as Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura and passes her Laura-ship on to another.
Perspective: The Poet Takes a Bike Ride
How does a poet gain perspective? Megan Willome takes a bike ride—in Canada. Share your August reads, fellow poets!
Empathy and The Loneliness of Existence in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Empathy and The Loneliness of Existence in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the most crucially motivating factor of everyone, human and android, is the wish to not be alone, and all the systems they set up, and even the us-vs-them of humans and androids, […]
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman (full text)
Read the classic story below, or check out our list of The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman characters, or read the author’s own essay on Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Want something shorter? Check out the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Summary. Or enjoy The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte […]
Tell the Bees: A Little Chat Highlight
Peek in on an evening of poetry and beekeeping talk, with this highlight of the chat during our “Tell the Bees” event with Sara Eddy.
Perspective: Letters of Three
Parenting is hard—sure—but writing believable parents is hard too. Megan Willome writes letters to three sets of fictional parents.
Tell the Bees—and Sue, and Sara, and Emily
The bees have something to say—to Sue Hubbell, to Emily Dickinson, and to Sara Eddy, our Summer Lights poet.
Bee Hives & Dragon Claws: A Vision Board and a Manuscript
Are you stuck in your writing process? Try a vision board. Callie Feyen’s incorporates bee hives and dragon claws.
Poet Laura: Poems of Identity
Poems of identity can orient us to who we are and who we want to continue to be—even against the odds of unkind or neglectful forces.
Poets and Poems: Paulette Guerin and “Wading through Lethe”
In “Wading through Lethe,” poet Paulette Guerin uses memory to recognize the important and consequential in a life.
By Heart: ‘Wintering’ + New Charlotte Mew Challenge
We have a bit more wintering to do. Do you have your honey? Join us as we learn Sylvia Plath’s poem “Wintering” By Heart.
Hermit Crab Essay 003: Directions for Metaphor
Join Callie Feyen as she seeks directions for metaphor, accompanied by her high school daughter and the high school parking lot.
Titania and Oberon: A Poem Series
Titania and Oberon Are Characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream This little poem series brings Shakespeare’s characters into a modern setting. 1 Titania’s Garden He’s had his way— long winter, Oberon’s pinch. The air piercing time. And again. No one would think to look in the frozen dirt for anything worth tasting. But there […]
Poet Laura: Praise Poems
Karen Paul Holmes invites us to notice the small things and craft our own praise poems. Sample poems included!
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode by James Clerk Maxwell
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode I. I come from fields of fractured ice, Whose wounds are cured by squeezing, Melting they cool, but in a trice, […]
The Enduring Appeal of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“Sir Gawain and the Green Night” continues to find readers and audiences, helped by modern translations and a movie with Dev Patel.
Hermit Crab Essay Series: 001 How to Do A Switch Leap
Callie Feyen begins a new series: The Hermit Crab Essay. She begins with the how-to of a switch leap and reveals something more vulnerable.
Reading Generously: ‘Mildred’s Garden’—A Begin Again Story
Begin Again with a love story—”Mildred’s Garden” by Laura Boggess. Even if you don’t like romance, it’s easy to read this book generously.