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About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel, Adjustments, is available now.

Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Kissed

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the tea

Get your favorite steep (or brew) & join us in writing a poem based on a line from “Kissed” by David Malone: “You held my name in your coat.”

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Poetry Club Tea Date, poetry prompt

Book Club Announcement: The Reindeer Chronicles

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Winter sunrise over bare trees for Reindeer Chronicles book club

We start our 2021 book club season with a title to help us work with the language of crisis and stories of possibility in the Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz.

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Adjustments Excerpt: The Dinner Party

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reeds in sunlight

In this amusing excerpt from Will Willingham’s novel Adjustments, a man and his landlady invite dates for each other to a dinner party, and a ruckus ensues.

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Poet Laura: Difficult to Forecast

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Storm at sea

While Tropical Storm Laura heats up in the Atlantic, we add this poem to our Poet Laura collection of “poems about Lauras.”

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Listening by the Lake

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Simply Called Sharing What We Love

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Venice brick building

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The Book of Delights Book Club: High Five from Strangers

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The Book of Delights - monkeys playing

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Pandemic Edition

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Zoom

When poets celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day during a pandemic, it’s likely total pandemonium. Join Lucille Clifton, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson & more in a Zoom chat.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tania Runyan

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Tania Runyan Take Your Poet to Work Day Cover

Our 2020 Take Your Poet to Work Day ready-for-work poet collection features our first living poet, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Tania Runyan.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen Take Your Poet to Work Day

We continue our 2020 Take Your Poet to Work celebration with fabulous poet Countee Cullen.

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Pandemic Journal: An Entry on Açaí Bowls as Ritual

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Pandemic Journal ritual

As the social distancing and sheltering at home continue amidst a renewed surge in coronavirus cases, ritual (and açaí) can be a fruitful way to mark and honor the time.

Filed Under: Blog, Pandemic Journal

Book Club Announcement: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Delightful sheep with bucket

Beginning July 15, join us for our new book club featuring some of the delightful essays in Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton Take Your Poet to Work Day Cover

We kick off the 2020 Take Your Poet to Work celebration with beloved poet Lucille Clifton.

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Callings & Beyond Endings

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Sunset behind shed

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Thresholds, Homecomings & States of Heart

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club; photo of trees in desert

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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Beginnings & Desires

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

To bless the space between us beginnings

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Book Club Announcement: John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Bless the Space Between Us

When naming his book of blessings To Bless the Space Between Us, it was surely not John O’Donohue’s intent to reflect on the space created between humans during a time of social distancing.

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It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day!

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Tired after National Poetry Month? Relax with a soft, fluffy pillow and share the joy of poetry. It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day!

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry

Pandemic Journal: An Entry on Watching the Sunset

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Sunset fountain pandemic journal

Sunsets, a lake, a ukulele, and a lot of walks mark the days of shelter-at-home in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex for our editor Will Willingham.

Filed Under: Blog, Pandemic Journal

National Poetry Month Group Dare: Create a 30-Day Poetry Journal

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Poetry on the Menu Poetry Challenge

Celebrate National Poetry Month and Poetic Earth Month with us with a brand new Poetry Dare: Create a 30-day visual poetry journal using poems from Poetry on the Menu or Earth to Poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Poetic Earth Month

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