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Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

take your poet to work day infographic cover

It’s coming. July 15th, 2015. Take Your Poet to Work Day.

Why should kids have all the fun? You’ve taken your daughter or son to work (or maybe you’ve taken someone else’s child to work). Your poet wants to go now too.

Maybe you can show Neruda (or Teasdale) how you do poetry at work. Or maybe you’ll do something altogether different. Share your ideas in the comment box. (We’re serious, even though we’re being serious about fun.)

Share your stories with us. Snap a picture and post to your favorite social media. Tag or mention us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and use the hashtag #poettowork and we might feature you.

And remember, if you aren’t at work on Take Your Poet to Work Day, you can always take your poet to the beach.

Find all the resources you need to make a great day of it, including a coloring book featuring all of our printable, stickable poets in this Take Your Poet to Work Day resource roundup.

Take Your Poet to Work Day 2015 Infographic

Browse our collection of ready-to-go poets you can take to work:

Take Your Poet to Work Day collection:

2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman
Take Your Poet to Work Day Wisława Szymborska
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Anna Akhmatova

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Robert Frost
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Maya Angelou
Take Your Poet to Work Day 2015 Poets

2014 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Sylvia Plath Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable
Sylvia Plath
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Take Your Poet to Work Day - WB Yeats
W. B. Yeats

John Keats Take Your Poet to Work
John Keats
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Langston Hughes Take Your Poet to Work printable
Langston Hughes

2013 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Emily Dickinson
Haiku Masters
Pablo Neruda

Take Your Poet to Work - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Rumi
Take Your Poet to Work - T S Eliot
T. S. Eliot

Take your poet to work - Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale

We’d love to hear about how you celebrate the day. Post pictures of your poets at work in your workplace on Twitter. Mention @tspoetry and use the special #poettowork hashtag so we’re sure to see all the fun. Who knows; we might even feature you in our wrap-up after the event.

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Will Willingham
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Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry
I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
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About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Comments

  1. L. L. Barkat says

    May 22, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    Do you take requests?

    Because I might want a Neruda or a Teasdale to cut out and color 😉

    Reply
  2. Charity Singleton Craig says

    May 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    Oh my goodness – this is hysterical. And awesome. I never know what I am going to find here . . . so much fun.

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      May 22, 2013 at 3:02 pm

      that makes me happy, Charity. I think poetry should be surprising. And fun 🙂

      Reply
  3. Will Willingham says

    May 22, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    Hang in there, Laura. We’ll roll out the full collection soon.

    And Charity, who says brainstorming is a waste of time, eh? 😉

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      May 22, 2013 at 3:03 pm

      who knew we’d someday have Collections? Well, that is just so boutique 🙂

      Reply
    • Donna says

      May 23, 2013 at 7:23 pm

      Really really? There is a collection coming!!!?? Oh that is so cool…. I’m pretty sure I’ll be taking a poet to the grocery store!

      Reply
  4. Monica Sharman says

    May 22, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    If I stuck it on a popsicle stick, I might accidentally use my poet to stir my coffee and cause serious burns. 😉

    Love this!

    Reply
  5. michelle ortega says

    May 22, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    This is going to be quite fun!

    Reply
  6. Tania Runyan says

    May 22, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    So these will be like American Girl dolls?

    Reply
  7. Laura Brown says

    May 23, 2013 at 6:03 pm

    Instead of poet-on-a-stick, you could cut out two of them (on one, where the face is, color it all hair), tape them together except at the bottom, and make it a fingerpoet.

    Reply
  8. Debbie Diesen says

    July 11, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    Would love a Carl Sandburg added to the collection.

    Reply
  9. Katie says

    July 15, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    This is great! I’m bringing Eliot on Wednesday. Would love Keats, Frost, Shakespeare, and/or Ginsberg for next year! Thanks for coming up with this!

    Reply
  10. Bob says

    July 15, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    I need a Shel Silverstein please. Thanks.

    Reply
  11. Sue says

    July 15, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    Do you have an Arnold Adoff?

    Reply
  12. Will Willingham says

    July 15, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    We’ll keep these poets in mind for next year. So many to choose from, we just couldn’t get them all!

    Reply
  13. Garrett Traylor says

    July 16, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    Hello poetry friends! I absolutely love this idea! We’re promoting it at our library. Have a good Poet to Work Day tomorrow!

    Reply

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