Are you a fan of the beloved L.M. Montgomery novels? Enjoy 10 great quotes from Anne of Avonlea and share your favorite with us.
Making Little Free Library No. 25, 001
A new Little Free Library in Michelle DeRusha’s Lincoln, NE, neighborhood brings out the dog-walkers, the amblers, the wanderers and the book lovers.
Book Love: Of Tractors and Mockingbirds
I said my goal was for students to appreciate literature. Secretly, though, my goal was for the kids to love literature. I wanted them to experience book love.
Top Ten Anne of Green Gables Quotes
Are you a fan of the beloved L. M. Montgomery novels? Enjoy these 10 great Anne of Green Gables quotes, and share your favorite with us.
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Former teen poet becomes President. Poetry is dead, again? Elastic ekphrastics and the challenges of diversity in publishing. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Read for Fun—Reading Yourself into the Story
Where and how do you read for fun? As part of the growing #read4fun conversation on Twitter, Lakin Easterling shares her secrets for reading for fun.
Losing Yourself: Rebecca Solnit’s ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’
In ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’, Rebecca Solnit considers not only the virtue of losing oneself, but the necessity of it.
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
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.
T.S. Poetry Press Goes to the Big Apple (and Donates a Peach)
T.S. Poetry Press is doing its part to ensure that on your next trip to New York City, the endless river of books will still be flowing freely.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Living Inside Your Breath
What’s it like to live in a room created with one’s own breath? Join us for a look at how we make our lives in this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Tears and the Ice Queen
Through Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Ice Queen, Rebecca Solnit shares the healing power and warmth of tears. Join us for this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.
The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Bodies, Betrayal and Love
We’re discussing Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, this week considering how pain is a necessary means to retain a sense of one’s very self.
Book Club Announcement: The Faraway Nearby (Rebecca Solnit)
Join us for our next book club, discussing The Faraway Nearby. We’ll can apricots, wear shoes made of ice, follow Frankenstein’s journey, fly with the swan man, and wander the labyrinth only to reach our center and return to our beginnings.
Our Favorite Books About Poetry
The Tweetspeak Poetry editorial team shares a list of our favorite books about poetry.
Libraries and Living Books: Seattle Public Library
If words have the power to shape a child’s soul, and books are the carrier of those words, then the library, according to Kimberlee Conway Ireton, is a powerful place indeed.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Chocolate sells books, poetry in the Windsor knot, the most famous book in South Dakota, and where money and writing collide: It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
On Books: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Charity Singleton Craig shares book recommendations between results of recent cancer tests. Have you read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry?
Literary Tour: Blue Bicycle Books (Charleston, SC)
Elizabeth Marshall finds joy in the narrow bookstore aisle of Blue Bicycle Books in our latest literary tour stop.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Book doodles, flower-power drone poetry bombs, Papa on Facebook, refrigerator poetry, and Afghani poetry–it’s all here in this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks!
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.