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Committing Prufrock: 6 Great Ways to Memorize a Poem

By Sandra Heska King 30 Comments

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Sandra Heska King continues her poetry dare, memorizing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Today, she shares her tips for memorizing a poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Committing Prufrock: There Will Be Time

By Sandra Heska King 15 Comments

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Sandra Heska King continues her mission to Commit Prufrock, finding herself lost in the rabbit trails that can be a part of reading poems.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: How to Commit Prufrock

By Sandra Heska King 26 Comments

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Sandra Heska King introduces her plan to commit Prufrock (to memory) and introduces our Barista Badges so you can join the fun and celebrate your progress.

Filed Under: Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Committing Prufrock: A New Poetry Dare

By Sandra Heska King 41 Comments

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Sandra Heska King gets nabbed while under cover in the poet’s protection program and agrees to commit Prufrock in the latest Poetry Dare scheme.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Regional Tour: Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan

By Sandra Heska King 11 Comments

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Sandra Heska King takes a sobering regional tour to the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington HIlls, Michigan.

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Memoir Notebook: Harp Dreams and Good Vibrations

By Sandra Heska King 19 Comments

Sandra Heska King writes a new story for her life by taking up the harp … again.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Music

Regional Tour: Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State University

By Sandra Heska King 18 Comments

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Sandra Heska King tours the Science & Culture Museum at Michigan State U, discovering culture through teapots, quilts, hats and illegal hatpins.

Filed Under: Art, Blog

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 3)

By Sandra Heska King 11 Comments

Poetry Dare Dreaming with Darwish Part 3

Sandra Heska King concludes her “Dreaming with Darwish” poetry dare, reflecting on the ways the dreams, and poems, will stay with her.

Filed Under: Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 2)

By Sandra Heska King 29 Comments

Poetry Dare Mahmoud Darwish

In her second Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King considers how Darwish used poetry and beauty to resist violence and siege.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish

By Sandra Heska King 22 Comments

Darwish Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

In her first Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare dispatch, Sandra Heska King wonders if Darwish is writing about a person or place, a man or woman, himself or someone else.

Filed Under: Dream Poems, Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Poetry Dare: What Tangled Webs T. S. Eliot Weaves

By Sandra Heska King 33 Comments

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Sandra Heska King’s poetry dare continues, while she suspends herself in the web woven by T. S. Eliot’s marvelous collection of words.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: Do I Dare to Do a Dare with T.S. Eliot?

By Sandra Heska King 54 Comments

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Would you read T.S. Eliot every day for 30 days? Sandra Heska King couldn’t resist a double-dog Poetry Dare.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare

Creativity: Falling in Love

By Sandra Heska King 16 Comments

Creativity Love

Need to fall in love this summer? With your own creativity, or some of the great creative geniuses of the past and present? Take our Creative Genius Workshop!

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Workshops

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