TwirlyWord Poetry &

When in doubt, write poems.

[twirlyword]

Socks, my first pair. I’m so proud of them, I’m posting everywhere. 

Stupid rhyme, can’t help myself. Like a knitting poet elf. (HAHAHAHAH)

[wakeandbakecake]

Me: bombards husband with pictures of beautiful yarn bowls for weeks until he buys one for me

Also me: grabs pan from play kitchen to hold yarn barf because the yarn bowl is five steps away and that is just too far

[twirlyword]

cracking me up love this yum and warm

[beautiful-brides-weddings]

Brides in Bowties: Wedding Fashion Gallery

[twirlyword]

just better bowties is all 

[lucybellwood]

Learning my way around this new iPad but someone isn’t having it.

[twirlyword]

But we still don’t have to LIKE it do we??? 

[patientpoems]

Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback

Serena Williams, Vogue’s February 2018 cover star discusses her difficult delivery for the first time and when she hopes to make her triumphant return to tennis.

Serena Williams on motherhood. The story in context.

[twirlyword]

No matter what you think, this woman is amazing. 

[893thecurrent]

Alabama Shakes have racked up two GRAMMYs in the pre-awards telecast for Best Rock Song (”Don’t Wanna Fight”) and Best Alternative Album (Sound & Color). 

[micdotcom]

Watch: Lady Gaga delivered a wild yet fitting tribute to David Bowie

[twirlyword]

Yes, please. Thank you very much. 

[buzzfeedau]

Brian Kesinger

[alleinist]

The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea - / Forgets her own locality - / As I - toward Thee -

[thethighster]

Yup. Just her close friend. Totally.

[albinogoth]

Hope is the thing with feathers/ that perches in the soul. #poem #poetry #Dickinson #brushpen #typography #ostrich

[blackletteraviary]

sexy bacon

you cook bacon so sexy you sizzle.

you clog my arteries with the most delicious love.

please don’t make my heart beat too fast, it may give out.

[poetsorg]

Stay current on the latest poetry news and information about our programs with the Academy of American Poets Newsletter.

[millionsmillions]

Nobody needs reminding that Yeats was a major poet, but it can be easy to forget, a hundred years of his major work, just why his poetry has endured. In The Irish Times, Denis O’Donoghue makes a forceful case for Yeats’s relevance, arguing that “Yeats solved, or came closer than any other modern poet in English to solving, the problem that defeated so many of his contemporaries: how to reconcile the claims of common speech, morally responsible, with the insisted-on autonomy of the poem.”

[poetryfoundation]

Cheryl Pope’s Just Yell: From Within opening reception on June 11 featured the performance WALK WITH ME #3 featuring Phenix Military Academy Poets. 

In the performance, young Chicago writers carved poems into the surface of school desks in this interactive installation that speaks to systems of power and violence. Representing an average Chicago Public School class size, 32 students from Phoenix Military Academy performed in collaboration with Just Yell / Poetry as Self Defense and Project&. Viewers were invited for a walk with students in which they shared a spoken poem during an intimate one to one exchange. 

The exhibition is up at the Poetry Foundation through August 28. In Just Yell: From Within, Cheryl Pope and a group of young poets from Chicago public schools activate various places and spaces of the Poetry Foundation through installation, sculpture, and spoken-word. Borrowing themes and tactile relics of American high school culture, Pope and the young poets address issues of violence as they plague the city of Chicago at a rapidly increasing rate.

See the exhibition 11AM–4PM Monday–Friday. 

Part of the exhibition will be available for viewing during our evening events.

[etsyifyourenasty]

Bicep

[christiannightmares]

Woman’s ‘relentlessly gay’ front yard prompts angry letter from Christian neighbor (To read the story, click here; For the heads up, thanks to Nicola A. Menzie; For a Relentlessly Gay GoFundMe page, click here; For a related post, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/116057581506/iowa-man-arrested-and-charged-with-sending-fake)

[rising]

This yard could be a lot gayer tbqh