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About Megan Willome

Megan Willome is a writer, editor, and author of The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life With Poems and Rainbow Crow: poems in and out of form. Her day is incomplete without poetry, tea, and a walk in the dark.

Perspective: The Two, The Only: Calvin and Hobbes

By Megan Willome 16 Comments

winter morning new snow white trees

With a new year on the horizon, Megan Willome is off for a fresh clean start and a little exploring. By sled, of course.

Filed Under: Calvin & Hobbes, Perspective, poetry

Children’s Book Club: A Very Haunted Christmas

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

purple amethyst gems haunted

It’s a very haunted Christmas in “The Box of Delights” and “The Children of the Green Knowe.” The night is dark, but the kids are all right.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Christmas Poems

By Heart: ‘The night is darkening round me’ by Emily Brontë

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

sunset at Stonehaven Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë holds us Spellbound with her poem “The night is darkening round me.” Come dance in the dark with us.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Emily Brontë

50 States of Generosity: Alaska

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Alaska Northern Lights

We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on Alaska, whose flag makes you look up at the night sky.

Filed Under: 50 States, Emily Dickinson, Nature Poems

Children’s Book Club: ‘Queen Elizabeth II: A Little Golden Book Biography’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

horse in field Queen Elizabeth

Have you been looking for a picture book about Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy? Little Golden Books has got you covered.

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

Perspective: ‘Charlotte’s Web’ is a Medieval Novel

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Charlotte's Web miracle grass sparkles

“Charlotte’s Web” a medieval novel? Join author Megan Willome as she gives a different perespective on the classic story.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, Children's Authors, Perspective

By Heart: ‘Renascence’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay + Mad Libs Prompt

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three long mountains and a wood

Let’s make poetry Mad Libs! Join us as we fill in the blanks to the beginning of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Renascence.”

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, poetry prompt

50 States of Generosity: Kentucky

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

cumberland falls Kentucky US river trees

We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on Kentucky—its bluegrass and its song, “Blue Moon of Kentucky.”

Filed Under: 50 States, Bird Poems, Blog

Children’s Book Club: ‘Vitamina T for Tacos’

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golden firethorn berries

An entire alphabet book about tacos? In Spanglish? Join our Children’s Book Club and read “Vitamina T for Tacos.”

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Perspective: Found in Translation

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Pfeiffer Beach sunset

Nothing is lost in translation in Maria Dahvana Headley’s contemporary rendering of “Beowulf” — backward, in high heels.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, Perspective, Seamus Heaney

By Heart: ‘The Secret’ by Denise Levertov

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

woman dancer Harvest Faire

The secret of life is found in a sudden line of poetry. Join us as we learn Denise Levertov’s “The Secret” By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Funny Poems, Poets, T.S. Eliot, Take Your Poet to Work Day

50 States of Generosity: California

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

California Sunset Montecito

We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on California and the all-American fabric produced there: denim.

Filed Under: 50 States, Blog

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Cat Who Saved Books’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Why save books? Because they have souls. Join our Children’s Book Club as we read Sosuke Natsukawa’s “The Cat Who Saved Books.”

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

Perspective: The Poet Takes a Bike Ride

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Vancouver Island forests

How does a poet gain perspective? Megan Willome takes a bike ride—in Canada. Share your August reads, fellow poets!

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Essays, Perspective, poetry, Writing Life

By Heart: ‘California Hills in August’ by Dana Gioia

By Megan Willome 12 Comments

bike trail along dry trail

Hate not heat and drought. Join Megan Willome as she learns to love her brown hills by learning a summer Dana Gioia poem By Heart.

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

50 States of Generosity: Michigan

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Otisville Michigan lakes trees

We continue our 50 States of Generosity series with a focus on the different types of mystery that are Pure Michigan.

Filed Under: 50 States, Michigan Regional Tour

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Beatryce Prophecy’ by Kate DiCamillo

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

baby feet on bunny blanket

In Kate DiCamillo’s “The Beatryce Prophecy,” our hero changes her story (with the help of a goat. Join us for Children’s Book Club.

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

Perspective: Letters of Three

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

three pink flowers

Parenting is hard—sure—but writing believable parents is hard too. Megan Willome writes letters to three sets of fictional parents.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Children's Stories, Fiction, Perspective, writing prompt, writing prompts

Tell the Bees—and Sue, and Sara, and Emily

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

summer lavender bees

The bees have something to say—to Sue Hubbell, to Emily Dickinson, and to Sara Eddy, our Summer Lights poet.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, Blog, Emily Dickinson

Children’s Book Club: ‘Hatchet’

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

moose in Grand Tetons

Put a little tough hope in your summer survival toolkit. Join us as we read “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen for this month’s Children’s Book Club.

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

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