This past Tueday, TweetSpeak Poetry hosted another poetry jam on Twitter. Fourteen intrepid souls participated, jamming to the prompts from Kingdom Come: Poems by John Estes. And the poet himself joined us, and at the end offered this observation: “The poetry-tweet-jam is a thing like no other. An exquisite corpse on ritalin. Nice invention.” We […]
The Cinnamon Beetle 6
Six poems and 16 fragments – the last of our poems developed from the recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 5
Below are five poems and five fragments pulled from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 4
Our recent Twitter poetry party swirled around oceans and ashes, a drive down side roads, the telephone and how something as mundane as burning the toast becomes something else again.
The Cinnamon Beetle 3
We now have an additional seven poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle 2
Below are an additional five poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
The Cinnamon Beetle
Somehow, Legos, cinnamon beetles, tattoos and open windows became the focus of the early part of our Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 5
Below are the final five poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 4
Something unusual happened with this group during the Twitter poetry party; you’ll see it in the last two poems.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 3
Below are three additional poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar 2
We have three more poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.
Alice and the Chinese Jar
Last Thursday night, there was another gathering of the Tweetspeakers for a Twitter poetry party.
Of Parasols and Scorpions 3
Below are the next six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Of Parasols and Scorpions 2
Here is the next group of six poems taken from our recent Twitter poetry party. Somehow the contributions moved from love to an apocalypse of weather to the planets and then to Hamlet’s voicemail
Of Parasols and Scorpions
Last week, seven of us (and a few lost souls who wandered in and promptly left, determined to stay lost) joined together for our Twitter poetry party.
A Leopard’s Smile 2
Below are four additional poems from Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party. The prompts for the jam all came from the play Richard II, by Wiliam Shakespeare.
A Leopard’s Smile
It was a small but wildly enthusiastic group that met Tuesday night for the Twitter poetry party.
As Easy As Pie
The Twitter poetry party topic was pie.
Governments of Tea 7 (and the finale)
The final six poems from our recent Twitter poetry party.
Governments of Tea 6
Below are six more poems edited from our recent Twitter poetry party, all inspired and prompted by The Republic of Tea