#POEMS

Sometimes when I’m reading poetry submissions for @WaxwingMag, I get to the end of a batch and find a weird one that makes me want to go back and read
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A thread on poetry magazine submissions: Before Jan 2018 I’d never submitted a poem into a magazine, despite writing for nearly eight years. Partly because I didn’t think my poems
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It’s National Poetry Day! A thread…We are sharing poems with our classes today to celebrate National Poetry Day. We have chosen some favourite poems – linked in this thread, along
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Unpopular opinion: I enjoyed hearing Andrew Scott perform Mahon's poem. It's such a poetry scene thing to see someone enjoy inhabiting a poem & criticize them for doing it wrong
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“The cruewall serpent with the mortal stang;The auld kene tiger, with his teith on char,Whilk in a wait has lyen for us so lang,Thinking to grip us in his clawis
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One notable aspecft of Anne Stevenson’s Collected is that it explodes any sense of chronology. Poems are mixed across decades with no indication of where they come from. Short thread.
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Why doesn’t modern education encourage children to memorise poems anymore?(I have a theory, but you go first...) 1. Children are built for memorisation. Seems odd not to exploit that.2. Learning
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If I've counted correctly, I've had 6 poems accepted to various places in the past few weeks and another magazine has solicited me for 2 more. If you'd have told
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popular poems to reada thread; i've made this thread to put my poems i wanted to re-read, and because im utterly bored; [Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe]Edgar Allen Poe
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ok idk 'bout you guys but i kinda enjoy reading 18+ things bc 1) it helps improves my vocab. the word used to express emotions are different from the one
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The Poetry Thread So a lot of the misconceptions I hear about poetry are:1. It has to rhyme 2. It’s for the romantics3. It’s too difficult to understand None of
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NOW - barrister and solicitor and legal friends. Lots of people from various walks of life have done short recordings on here ofsongs, poems etc. Language is our tool and
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Some poetry to go with 'Portrait of a lady on fire''Although I’d cream my jeans touching your breast, sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the restof what I want
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Nobody cares, but poems & poets need to be prised from their precious shells. We treat poetry like this revered holy ground & then wonder why nobody is reading it,
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42% there! 30 Poems in November to support immigrants & new Americans!http://amydryansky.com/2020/11/15/35-5-there/ Thanks to y'all, I'm about half way toward my goal for CNA!And hey, I'm writing every day, which
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कुछ लाइने ऐसी लिखी हैं जो कभी भी... किसी भी माहौल में फिट हो जाती है. Will add all in this thread...#poetry #PoetsTwitter #POEMS #kavita #Hi
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