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Adjustments: A Belated Bicentenary Party for John Keats

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Seed grass in sunlight

The characters from Adjustments: a novel return for a sort of celebration in belated honor of the bicentenary of the death of John Keats.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, John Keats

Adjustments Excerpt: The Dinner Party

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

reeds in sunlight

In this amusing excerpt from Will Willingham’s novel Adjustments, a man and his landlady invite dates for each other to a dinner party, and a ruckus ensues.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog

Adjustments Book Club: Homecomings

By Rick Maxson 15 Comments

Path in autumn leaves

In the final installment of our book club discussion of Adjustments, Rick Maxson reflects on what makes a home, and what makes it possible for a person to come home again.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Adjustments Book Club, Blog, book club, Patron Only

Adjustments Book Club: Messages Out of the Dark and Dancing in the Lights

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

night sky silhouette hill

In this week’s Adjustments book club, Rick Maxson reflects on what it means, in Archibald MacLeish’s words, to take the world, and on Will Phillips’ fumbling acceptance of his many selves.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments, Adjustments Book Club, book club, Patron Only

Adjustments Book Club: We Note Our Place With Book Markers

By Rick Maxson 19 Comments

Sunrise in field

How does friendship play a role in identifying, and going on to meet, our needs? Explore the relationship between new friends Will and Joe in Rick Maxson’s first Adjustments Book Club installment.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Adjustments Book Club, Patron Only

Reader Come Home: “Adjustments”

By Megan Willome 15 Comments

Will Willingham

Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader as we read ‘Adjustments,’ a very funny book about a man not unlike Keats. And share your October pages in our Reader, Come Home roundup.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, book reviews, Books, Reader Come Home

Book Club Announcement: Adjustments by Will Willingham

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

Round bales in fog

The best books are those that invite us into a world we would never have thought to enter. Adjustments by Will Willingham is such a book and such a world. Join Richard Maxon for our latest book club discussion beginning Nov. 18.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Adjustments Book Club, Blog, book club

Announcing: Adjustments—A Novel for Our Time

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Adjustments by Will Willingham

This is a novel for our time. Forget about how it will sometimes make you laugh more than you have in a while. Or make you love the characters and wish you could meet them at the corner store. Little by little, this story also unfolds a vision for how to navigate in a world where we can’t always resolve things, a vision for choosing life.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments, Books, Fiction

Adjustments: A Novel

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Adjustments Front Cover Will Willingham

Looking for a novel that will make you laugh, get you thinking, and remind you of the power of friendship? Then Adjustments could just be your next good read.

Adjustments: The Series

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

The Adjuster Open Road

Is it true that claim adjusters tell the best stories? Find out for yourself with our subscriber-only fiction series, Adjustments.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction

10 Ways to Help Your Favorite Introverted Author: 1,000 Words

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10 ways to help favorite introverted author-day 2-a thousand words

Your favorite introverted author would love your help (though they might not ask). Here is a fun way to help their book find new audience.

Filed Under: article, Blog, Book promotion, Literary Citizen

Good News—It’s Okay to Write a Plot Without Conflict

By Sara Barkat 4 Comments

body of water seen through pipe by the sea

What makes a plot worthy of writing? Get past societal assumptions about stories, and write a great plot without conflict.

Filed Under: article, Blog, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

Experiencing Nature and the Earth with “Earth Song” by Sara Barkat

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Kirkjufell Earth Song Barkat

The 93 poems of Earth Song, collected by Sara Barkat, focus on the earth as an immediate, real place—avoiding abstract, theoretical poetry.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Ecopoetry, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sara Teasdale

“This Living Hand” by John Keats

< Return to All John Keats This Living Hand This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins […]

Children’s Book Club: ‘Llama Llama Misses Mama’

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

horse waiting in a Gloucester meadow

Let’s get all up in our feelings with Llama LLama, off to school without his mama. Join us for an Anna Dewdney Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

The Reindeer Chronicles Book Club: That Which Has Been Damaged Can Be Healed

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Rolling green hills with winding road for Reindeer Chronicles book club

In the first installment of our Reindeer Chronicles, we explore the amazing regeneration of China’s Loess Plateau after centuries of degradation.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Patron Only, The Reindeer Chronicles

Fiction Prompt: Chapter 1, Apple Fritter Bread

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Callie Feyen

Fall means fiction! Join us as author Callie Feyen unfolds a new story, chapter by chapter. Bonus: an apple fritter recipe.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Fiction

Poet Laura: Difficult to Forecast

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Storm at sea

While Tropical Storm Laura heats up in the Atlantic, we add this poem to our Poet Laura collection of “poems about Lauras.”

Filed Under: Blog, Poet Laura

Top 10 Ideas for How to Start a Poetry Club

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Poetic Poppies Poetry Club

Exploring poetry together can make your friendships (and your life) more interesting—whether at home, school, or in the workplace. Here are 10 great ideas for how to start a poetry club and keep the goodness going.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Activities and Prompts, Poetry Club, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources

Ask Pearl: Creepy Thank You Notes, Journal Creepers & Not-At-All-Creepy Cashmere Socks

By Pearl Jenkins 4 Comments

Ask Pearl girl playing with log

In her latest advice column, Dennison Gazette columnist Pearl Jenkins tackles thank you notes in the age of texting, journal snooping and buying yourself gifts at the holidays.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Ask Pearl, Blog

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