Colors have cool histories, intriguing origins, cultural meanings, wonderful names. Today, meet azure. Learn cool facts about this brilliant blue, hear its pronunciation, and write a truly colorful vignette or haiku!
Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “Molly On the Books”
Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about books and write a page-turner limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “Joe, a Grill and Brisket”
Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about brisket and write a briskety good limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Writing Workshop: Words You Can Taste!
In this delicious food-writing workshop, you’ll have a chance to look at popular favorites (potatoes, bread, cakes, anyone?) and a rainbow of foods you may or may not have ever developed a love for (eggplant, olives, sugar-coated rose petals?). Come write words you can taste!
Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “Molly, Bread and Butter”
Early readers Molly and Joe want to help a child learn to read. Learn fun facts about butter and write a buttery good limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Fun Reading Activities: Color & Trace “A Buffalo and Joe”
Meet Molly and Joe, two wide-eyed early readers who can help a child learn to read. With this fun reading activity coloring page, meet the mischievous buffalo, too. Then use the “buffalo fun facts” to pen a limerick!
Thank You Notes: Teachers
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing—in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to teachers.
Thank You Notes: Toys
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing—in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to Toys.
A Basket of Favorite Thank You Notes
Each month, we slip a few poetic thank you notes to unlikely recipients: potatoes, evergreens, candles, ice. Looking over the past few months, here are just a few of our favorite thank you notes. Thank you for writing them! Or snapping a thankful picture.
Play It Forward: Writing Workshop
Have you ever wished that whimsy and fun—that play itself—could be the beginning of serious work? Enrich your writing through play—in this special workshop with authors Laura Boggess and Laura Lynn Brown.
Thank You Notes: Books
Thank You Notes is a prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing. In this post we’re crafting thank you’s to Books!
Poetry for Life Scholarship Winner: Teja Dupree, of Johns Hopkins University
Meet Teja Dupree, college sophomore from Woodbridge, Virginia, who is the 2017 winner of our Poetry for Life Scholarship.
Thank You Notes: Ice
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing—in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to ice.
Thank You Notes: Candles
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing—in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to candles.
Tea Time: Writing Our Leaves & Our Lives Workshop
Explore the tasty partnership of tea, story, poetry and writing—in this special writing workshop with author Megan Willome.
Thank You Notes: Evergreens
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing—in poems, paragraphs, or pictures. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to evergreens.
From Author to Publisher: L.L. Barkat’s Thoughts Are for You
Learn the surprising continuity of thought that links Barkat’s life as an author to her life as a publisher. The thoughts were, and still are, for you.
2017 Poetry at Work Day Poster
The annual worldwide celebration of Poetry at Work Day is coming January 10. Start getting your workplace ready with our free new 2017 poster designs.
Thanksgiving Poem: The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier
Give thanks for “the vines of the gourd and the rich melon run” with a Thanksgiving poem, The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Thank You Notes: Potatoes, Parsnips, and Other Root Vegetables
Thank You Notes is a monthly prompt that focuses on expressing our thanks to a particular person, place, or thing. This month, we’re crafting thank-you’s to potatoes, parsnips, and other root vegetables.