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Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Ending and Reentry

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

The Art of Gathering sea shell in sunset

As we close our book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider the closing of our events, and how to end well.

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Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Making (and Breaking) Rules

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Art of Gathering Barn Dance

In this week’s book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider how rules can provide the structure needed to make events more experimental, whimsical and democratic.

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Book Club: The Art of Gathering—The Kindness of Exclusion (or, Not)

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

The Art of Gathering

We begin our book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering with a look at the purpose of our gatherings and the need that sometimes arises to exclude, with kindness.

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Book Club Announcement: Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Class of Wistaria Tea House

Priya Parker encourages us to create meaningful, transformative gatherings that shape “the way we think, feel, and make sense of our world.” Join us for our latest book club discussion of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.

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Poetry Prompt: Gathering Flowers

By T.S. Poetry 2 Comments

Pink Gerber daisies gathering flowers poetry prompt

June is the time to begin gathering flowers and planting seeds. Come do so in a poem!

Filed Under: Flower Poems, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Video: Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience—Enchanting!

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Earth Song Horse apple nature poems

Get ready to be enchanted by this nature poems video, created especially for Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience. We’d love to read a poem you write, inspired by your favorite moment!

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Nature Poems, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

“Flower-gathering” by Robert Frost

< Return to Robert Frost Poems Flower-gathering I Left you in the morning, And in the morning glow, You walked a way beside me To make me sad to go. Do you know me in the gloaming, Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming? Are you dumb because you know me not, Or dumb because you […]

By Heart: ‘The Good Life’ + New Wallace Stevens Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

fresh baked bread

It’s funny the things we are grateful for, in retrospect. Join us as we learn a poem of gratitude By Heart: “The Good Life” by Tracy K. Smith.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Gratitude

By Heart: ‘Sea Poppies’ + New Tracy K. Smith Challenge

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

flowers by the sea Cap Fréhel - Bretagne

Imagine discovering a treasure—a flower. Who will you tell? Join us and learn “Sea Poppies” by H.D. By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Flower Poems, Nature Poems

By Heart: ‘Somewhere or Other’ + New H.D. Challenge

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a branch of autumn leaves

Love is there — “Somewhere or Other.” Beauty keeps hope alive. Join us and learn a love poem by Christina Rossetti By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Christina Rossetti, love poems

By Heart: ‘What Men Die For Lack Of’ + New Christina Rossetti Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

poky white weed

You’d be surprised by what men die for lack of. So, we’re going on a poem hunt to make things better. Plus, we’re learning an Abigail Carroll poem about poetry By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Carl Sandburg, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Plath, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman

By Heart: Fall In Love With Poetry + New Abigail Carroll Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Hauraki Gulf, Australia

Do you want to fall in love with poetry? Memorize a poem (or thirty-six). This By Heart column shows how—with time and tea.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Poems about poetry, Poetry Memorization

By Heart: ‘From Blossoms’ Peaches Poem by Li-Young Lee

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

peach blossoms in summer light

Join us and bite into the round jubilance of peaches as we learn Li-Young Lee’s poem “From Blossoms” By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Poetry Memorization, Summer Poems

By Heart: ‘Motherload’ + Li-Young Lee Challenge

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

mother holding child into the air Motherload poem Kate Baer

For this month’s By Heart, we learn a poem about motherhood by Kate Baer, called “Motherload.”

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Mother Poems, Poetry Memorization

By Heart: ‘Choices’ + New Kate Baer Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

bamboo forest

Sometimes our choices come down to nests or mountains. Learn Tess Gallagher’s poem “Choices” By Heart and see which one you choose.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, nature, Nature Poems

By Heart: ‘One Art’ + New Tess Gallagher Challenge

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Sunset on the Nile-One-Art-Elizabeth-Bishop

What have you lost today? Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” invites us into the art of losing in this month’s By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Poems, poetry, Poetry Memorization

By Heart: ‘blessing the boats’ + New Elizabeth Bishop Challenge

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

blue boat beside reeds in water

For Black History Month, we learn Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” By Heart and consider the memory of a Chilean sea.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Americana Poems, Black Poets, Blog, By Heart, Poems, Poetry Memorization

By Heart ‘As I Walked Out One Evening’ + New Lucille Clifton Challenge

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

golden river by castle

The river that is our country runs on, despite crooked hearts. Read W.H. Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening” beside your favorite river.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Poems, Poetry Memorization, Poets, W. H. Auden

By Heart: ‘Everything Is Going To Be All Right’ + New W.H. Auden Challenge

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Death Valley with sunrise

A pandemic is a perfect time to learn a poem By Heart, especially Derek Mahon’s “Everything Is Going To Be All Right.”

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Pandemic Journal

By Heart: ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider’ + New Derek Mahon Challenge

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

sunset over rock promontory

Uncle Walt says spiders and souls have a lot in common. Our By Heart column considers Whitman’s ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider’ and Charlotte.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Poetry Memorization, Walt Whitman

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