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Take Your Poet to Work Day is July 19, 2017 (Infographic)

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

It’s morning. The start of your work day, if you work a standard 9-5 sort of job. Or maybe you’re just getting home from the night shift, making yourself dinner while half the country stands bleary-eyed at the counter, waiting for toast to pop up and coffee to brew. Or maybe you just worked your four days on and are starting your three days off. Whatever your hours, whatever your job description or how many jobs you work, this is no ordinary work week.

This is the week you get to Take Your Poet to Work.

On the third Wednesday of July (that’s July 19 for 2017), we invite you to pick a poet to pack in your lunchbox for Take Your Poet to Work Day. You can browse our collection of ready-for-work poets. Then just cut out, color and secure your chosen poet to a stick and you’re ready to go. Impress your boss. Delight your coworkers. Amuse your fellow subway passengers.

And don’t forget to 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. (If you Instagram, also tweeting to us will help ensure you are seen.)

Take Your Poet to Work Day 2017 Infographic

Browse all of our ready-for-work poets:

2016

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Judith Wright
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Emily Brontë

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Seamus Heaney
Take Your Poet to Work Day - Printable Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable William Wordsworth

 

2015

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
Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

2014

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 - Rumi
Take Your Poet to Work - Emily Dickinson
Take Your Poet to Work - T S Eliot

Take Your Poet to Work - Haiku Masters
Take Your Poet to Work - Pablo Neruda
Take your poet to work - Sara Teasdale


Post and graphics by Will Willingham.

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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

    July 15, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    poets at the fair. I would like to see that 🙂

    Reply
  2. Diana Trautwein says

    July 15, 2013 at 11:05 pm

    too clever for words . . . i no longer have a workplace, so I’ll think of you all fondly as I enjoy the island breezes of Kauai. :>)

    Reply
  3. Navi says

    July 17, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Can I print a picture of my teenager instead? She’s a poet. lol.

    Reply
  4. Adam Webb says

    July 17, 2013 at 10:50 am

    This brilliant initiative has unintentionally raised awareness of an important problem in modern workplaces: lack of sticks.

    Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      July 17, 2013 at 10:53 am

      Tragic, such a lack. 🙂

      We’ve seen pencils and drinking straws stand in for sticks.

      And in once case, what I thought looked a lot like a Twizzler.

      Reply
      • Adam Webb says

        July 17, 2013 at 10:56 am

        I don’t think the ghost of Robert Lowell will be kind to me if I attach his image to a Twizzler.

        Reply
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