Sandra Fox Murphy, Tweetspeak's Poet Laura, finds common ground with the Beat poets, National Poetry Month and Earth Day.| Tweetspeak Poetry
The 2025 poster features an excerpt from “Gate A-4”, a poem by former Young People’s Poet Laureate and Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, as well as artwork by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Christy Mandin.| Poets.org
Go on the prowl this month with Sandra Fox Murphy, our 2025 Poet Laura, for some cat poem sleuthing and housecat bossing. The post Poet Laura: The Consequence of Cats appeared first on Tweetspeak Poetry.| Tweetspeak Poetry
Sandra Fox Murphy writes about music's intersections with time, place and poetry, travelling from a general store in West Virginia to the grackles on a power line in west Texas. The post Poet Laura: A Concert in the General Store appeared first on Tweetspeak Poetry.| Tweetspeak Poetry
I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and…| The Poetry Foundation