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Winter Stars Book Club: Fantasy – “To The Shadows We Return”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars dark flower

In this week’s book club discussion of the short plays in Sonia Barkat’s Winter Stars, Callie Feyen considers the complexities of love and friendship in the fantasy play, “To the Shadows We Return.”

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Winter Stars Book Club: Tragedy – Winter Stars

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Hot springs winter stars book club

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Book Club Announcement: ‘Winter Stars’ by Sonia Barkat

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Sonia Barkat

In September, Callie Feyen leads our next book club discussion of Sonia Barkat’s ‘Winter Stars: three 10-minute plays.’ Come play with us.

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Poetry Prompt: Dor

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.

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Poetry Prompt: Seeing Stars

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.

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Pandemic Journal: An Entry on the Silver Skunk and the Mysterious Poet

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A tale of a silver skunk, quiet talk of an unknown sonneteer, and friends at a distance together at York’s. Share in this surreal pandemic journal entry, with Callie Feyen.

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Poetry Prompt: Stoop Sitting

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Before summer ends, step outside for a little stoop sitting. Author Callie Feyen offers a poetry prompt about the place we call home.

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Poetry Prompt: Include a Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt about the power of metaphor. Especially when the ocean is involved.

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Poetry Prompt: To the Horizon

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What memories do you have of swimming as a child? Join Callie Feyen as thinks about her own summertime memories and of swimming to the horizon.

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Poetry Prompt: Swimming in Sand

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a poetry prompt about swimming in sand, drawn from memories of several trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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Poetry Prompt: For the Birds

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you need to push away from in order to take flight? Join Callie Feyen as she considers resistance as a mighty force that’s not just for the birds.

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The Wisdom of Butterflies

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

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Poetry Prompt: Poems of Emergence

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

The 17-year cicada will emerge this summer. What else is emerging in the world? Join author Callie Feyen as she considers how to write poems of emergence.

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Poetry Prompt: Finding Poetry from Fear

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Author Callie Feyen takes a dare to write nature poetry, finding inspiration from daredevil Robert Frost.

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Wild Words Book Club: Ending to Begin

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

winter trees and ice

A season of finishing can also be a time for a beginning. And seasons of retreat can be opportunities for turning outward. Callie Feyen concludes her book club discussion of Nicole Gulotta’s Wild Words this week.

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Wild Words Book Club: Finding And Using Your Wings

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Wagtail in rain - wild words book club

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Wild Words Book Club: Return to Yourself

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Wild Words book club pink finger flower

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Wild Words Book Club: Make Believe

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Imagination Polka Dot Bag

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Wild Words Book Club: 5 Ways To Begin

By Callie Feyen 15 Comments

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In this first installment of the Wild Words book club, Callie Feyen reflects on five ways her writing has started, and the ways beginning and doubting intersect.

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Poetry Prompt: Use Your Words

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

In a time when touch is largely prohibited, author Callie Feyen invites us to turn to poetry to express how we feel about friendship—using more than words.

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