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Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming: Here’s Our Free Coloring Book!

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Coloring Book Cover

Very soon,  crayons, Popsicle sticks and poets will come together to celebrate the best day of the year in workplaces around the world.

Take Your Poet to Work Day is the third Wednesday in July each year. That means for 2017, we’ll celebrate on Wednesday, July 19. For the past few years, we’ve marveled at all the ways poets can help you out at work, from counting money in the cash register drawer to serving up espresso in the coffee shop. We’ve even seen a few poets in the board room, on the construction site, and, yes, on the beach. (Because poets take vacations too.)

We’re excited to release our free Take Your Poet to Work Day Coloring Book, updated with our fresh new crop of 2016 poets, including William Wordsworth,  Elizabeth Barrett Browning,  Seamus Heaney,  and Emily Brontë,  Judith Wright,  and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

So get out your scissors and glue, and join us for a day of fun and celebration with poets in the workplace. And be sure to tweet us photos of your poets at work to @tspoetry on Twitter, with the hashtag #poettowork, and maybe we’ll feature you.

Download Your Own Take Your Poet to Work Coloring Book

Get all the resources you need for Take Your Poet to Work Day

And check out our full printable collection of poets since 2013:

2019 Children’s Poets

Mother Goose
Mother Goose
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein

2019 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

W.S. Merwin - Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Mary Oliver — Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Tony Hoagland — Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Take Your Poet to Work C.D. Wright 2

2018

Rosario Castellanos - Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Take Your Poet to Work Printable Juana Ines de la Cruz
Take Your Poet to Work Printable Rosalia de Castro
Jorge Luis Borges Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable

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

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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. Bethany R. says

    July 14, 2016 at 11:22 am

    Tweetspeak Poetry, you’ve done it again—put a smile on my face even before my first cup of coffee has kicked in. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Will Willingham says

      July 14, 2016 at 11:40 am

      Happy to hear it, Bethany. 🙂 Who are you taking this year?

      Reply
      • Bethany says

        July 14, 2016 at 12:24 pm

        Hard to choose. I was thinking Seamus or Elizabeth perhaps. How about you?

        Reply
  2. Megan Willome says

    July 14, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    “It’s always celebrated the third Wednesday in July.” Just like Labor Day is the first Monday of September, or Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.

    Reply

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