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The Handwritten Letter: How To Tell A Friend You Adore Her

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Handwritten Letter

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Poetry Prompt: Angry Poem Stacks

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she shares how editor L.L. Barkat helped her pay attention to her anger using the Jealous Poem Stacks model.

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Poetry Prompt: Imagination Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

What do you dream of when you are out in the world?

Join author Callie Feyen as she walks down a one-hundred-year-old alley and dreams about what it is she might become someday.

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Gratitude Poetry Prompt: Look For the Constants

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

When something is confusing, can we find something constant and move towards that?

Author Callie Feyen’s only advice for understanding poetry is to compare it to a middle school group chat conversation gone awry.

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Gratitude Poetry Prompt: Mystery of Marriage

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Author Callie Feyen looks to explain twenty years of marriage as a mysterious – albeit lovely – poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Language Arts, love poetry, poetry, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Gratitude Together: Leftover Astonishments

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

Astonishments

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Literary Friends: Charles Dickens, John Forster, Jane Carlyle, and Me

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Literary Friends Dickens Carlyle Forster lambs playing

“I’d decided going to graduate school was a mistake, and began to make plans to give up,” says Callie Feyen. “Enter Charles Dickens, John Forster, and Jane Carlyle.”

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Poetry Prompt: Poetry brings light to winter gray

By Callie Feyen 14 Comments

What poems bring light to the darkening days of winter? In this week’s poetry prompt Callie Feyen guides us down the gray highway to find beauty.

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Poetry Prompt: Thankful Acrostics When Poetry Feels Like It’s Gone

By Callie Feyen 17 Comments

Settle Yourself In the Middle of Everything

Callie Feyen believed she’d lost the poetry of teaching, but Megan Willome showed her that poetry (and teaching) hadn’t lost *her.*

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Cross-Generational Friendships: Where’s My Daughter? Call Her Forth

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Beautiful Red Leaves Juliet Thoughts

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Memories Poetry Prompt: Something Lost

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Careful walking in beauty; it can lead you to lost things.

Is there something you remember that you wish you could return to? Join Callie Feyen in stirring your memories of lost things you wish you could find again—and put them in a poem!

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Memories Poetry Prompt: A List

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Sometimes Turning Memories Into Stories Feels Like Climbing A Mountain

A good rule for writing true is, start with what bothers you. But what do we do when what bothers us is too much to figure into a story? How about making a list?

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Poetry Prompt: Come Back To Your Heart (Map)

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What Do You Hold In Your Heart?

Looking for ways to tap into your memories and turn them into stories or poems? Try heart mapping, a creative exercise in exploring what you hold close.

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Halloween Poetry Prompt: Never Too Old For …

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

What is it that makes you remember gratefully, that you are always unfinished?

Join Callie Feyen as she confesses why Halloween is a favorite holiday, and also, that she hopes to never grow too old for its make believing.

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Poetry Prompt: Mystery Poems for Halloween

By Callie Feyen 18 Comments

What's the difference between mystery and fear?

What’s the difference between mystery and fear? Join Callie Feyen as she discusses trying to create mystery poems from what makes us afraid.

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Poetry Prompt: Fall Invitation Poems

By Callie Feyen 23 Comments

Write your memories of fall so clearly that we see ourselves in them.

Writer Callie Feyen takes advice from poet Tania Runyan and instead of describing, she invites the reader into a memory of a fall day.

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Fall Poetry Prompt: Coming Home Poems

By Callie Feyen 16 Comments

How is the season of fall a homecoming?

A new name for an old tradition takes author Callie Feyen on a trip down memory lane, and she finds herself at home on a rainy fall evening. Come home, too, with your own poems!

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Poetry Prompt: October, Fall, and Foliage “As In” Poems

By Callie Feyen 13 Comments

How do you describe October?

October, as fresh and beautiful as it is, lends itself to cliche. This week, try an “As In” poem to see and describe October, fall, and foliage in a new way.

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Poetry Prompt: How-To Haiku

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

What does it look like to listen?

How many ways are there to listen? How many ways are there to learn math? Can you write the instructions in the form of a haiku?

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Poetry Prompt: The Alphabet—Your Name

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Leave your handwriting everywhere.

What poetry hides in your name? Join Callie Feyen for poetry prompts that have to do with the letters that make up you!

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

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