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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tania Runyan

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

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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 7 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.

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Book Club Announcement: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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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

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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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

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In this final installment of our To Bless the Space Between Us book club, we reflect on John O’Donohue’s blessings related to callings and endings.

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

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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In this week’s To Bless the Space Between Us, we consider John O’Donohue’s blessings for thresholds, homecomings and states of heart.

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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

In the first installment of our new book club, we consider the act of blessing and reflect on some of John O’Donohue’s blessings for “Beginnings” and “Desires.”

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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 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!

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Pandemic Journal: An Entry on Watching the Sunset

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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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.

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

By Will Willingham 5 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.

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Deaf Republic Book Club: Act Two

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Deaf Republic Book Club Act Two

In the second half of our book club discussion of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, the poems ask us hard questions about the body, about what makes us human, about hope.

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Deaf Republic Book Club: Act One

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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In our first installment of the Deaf Republic book club, we consider hope’s impossibility in the midst of unending devastation.

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Book Club Announcement: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

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In our upcoming book club we’ll consider Ilya Kaminsky’s collection, Deaf Republic, and ask it guide us in a reimagining of what it means to be a hero, of disability, of the movements that compel us to survive.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: A Pattern That Others Made

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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In this final installment of our book club discussion of The Silver Chair, our trio rescue the Prince, and make their way back to Narnia, but not before discovering an important truth about the others with whom we share space in the world.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: The Darkness Around Us Is Deep

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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In the dramatic escape scene of a children’s story, we discover important truths about staying awake to our lives and the world around us. Join us for the latest installment in our book club discussion of The Silver Chair.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: The Circus Won’t Find the Park

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

The Silver Chair stony outcroppings

Our young heroes continue their quest to rescue the Prince, and discover a hard learned secret about being in it together as our discussion of The Silver Chair continues.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: Horrible Errors of Childhood

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

mountains and clouds for The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

In the first installment of The Silver Chair book club, we consider the errors of childhood that haunt us in our efforts to good in the world.

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Book Club Announcement: The Silver Chair

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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What we remember can be the key to finding our way, completing a task, maybe even saving the world. Join us for our new book club, where remembering is the way through the dark: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.

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