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Book Club Announcement: Poetry at Work

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

It’s been called “a life-changing book.”

Dave Malone claims everyone should read it: “Poets, CEOs, HR directors, IT workers, nurses, job applicants, and even non-poets. How can you not want to read a book that compares the morning work commute to Joyce Kilmer and Homer?”

This week—one in which I have retreated deeply into my own work—I am reminded that there is poetry at work. Not merely the poetry we bring to work, but the poetry that is already here: in a sense, the poetry that inhabits the work. In that, even perhaps in its most tedious humming, we find Keats’ “long perspective, ” Spender’s “straining to go beyond what he can do, ” and Rushdie’s stopping the world from going to sleep.

I’m with Malone on this one. It’s a book for all of us to read. We invite you to read and discuss it together in our January book club as we prepare to celebrate Poetry at Work Day.

Order your copy of Poetry at Work today, and meet us here around the conference table, or the lunch table, or the kitchen table, beginning January 8.

Or buy Kindle Version
Or buy Nook Version

January 8: Introduction – Chapter 7
January 15: Chapters 8 – 12
January 22: Chapters 13 – 20

Photos by L.L. Barkat, used with permission. Post by Will Willingham.

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Poetry at Work,  by Glynn Young, foreword by Scott Edward Anderson

“This book is elemental.”

—Dave Malone

 

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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, Adjustments, is available now.
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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, Adjustments, is available now.

Comments

  1. Jody Lee Collins says

    December 23, 2013 at 11:59 am

    Just ordered my copy last night–woohoo! Hopefully will get some reading in before the ‘official’ discussion date.
    Cannot wait.

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      December 27, 2013 at 7:42 pm

      looking forward to discussing with you, Jody 🙂

      Reply
  2. Lorrie says

    December 27, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    Just ordered my book. I have been out of the loop big time… remember when this all first started!! Love it and hope to jump back in with both feet…

    Reply
    • L. L. Barkat says

      December 27, 2013 at 7:42 pm

      Oh, Lorrie, welcome back. What was the trail you followed to find us again? 🙂

      (happy that we’ll get to read and discuss with you)

      Reply

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