Do some good in the world today—and maybe change the course of someone’s life. Celebrate Random Acts of Poetry Day by sharing a poem, or listening for one.
Introvert Paradise Pod Club: How Do Introverts Share Ideas
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Difficult Conversations: Book Club & Pod Club Announcement
In October, the focus of our Friendship Project turns to the subject of Difficult Conversations. Join us for upcoming book and pod club discussions on this important topic.
Introvert Paradise: Pod Club Announcement: How Do Introverts Share Ideas?
A few years ago, researcher Susan Cain quietly raised a hand at the back of a crowded, extroverted corporate and academic culture and created, for some among us, a veritable raucous permission to continue to be our introverted selves.
Texas Stories: The Invisibility of Seasons
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Pod Club: Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”
We are discussing Radiolab’s podcast “Memory and Forgetting” and exploring what it is to remember, what it is to forget, and how both of those processes can be altered.
Pod Club Announcement: Listen with us to Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting”
Join us for our next Pod Club discussion over Radiolab’s “Memory and Forgetting” and discuss how memories are formed, erased and altered.
Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—Friends With Edges
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Pod Club: Hidden Brain’s “Watch Your Mouth”
In this week’s Pod Club discussion, we consider the way that language shapes the way we think and perceive the world (rather than the other way around) with Hidden Brain’s interview with cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky.
Pod Club Announcement: Hidden Brain’s “Watch Your Mouth”
Join us for a new pod club series discussing podcasts on a wide range of topics, like Hidden Brain’s “Watch Your Mouth” episode on how the language we speak affects the way we think and view the world.
Book Club Announcement: Provence, 1970
Great friendship tales often involve food. Provence, 1970 is the story of chefs M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard and others, one summer in the South of France. Join us for our next delicious book club discussion.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: How Poets Work
We celebrated the 6th annual Take Your Poet to Work Day this week. Check out the ways we found our poets working away the day.
It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!
It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Choose a poet, color and cut out and glue it to a Popsicle stick to delight your coworkers with the best kind of poetry at work.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Rosario Castellanos
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection continues with Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Juana Inés de la Cruz
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection continues with Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Rosalía de Castro
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection continues with Galician poet Rosalía de Castro.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Jorge Luis Borges
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection starts with Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Ending and Reentry
As we close our book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider the closing of our events, and how to end well.
Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Making (and Breaking) Rules
In this week’s book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider how rules can provide the structure needed to make events more experimental, whimsical and democratic.
Infographic: How to Write a Tanka
Try your hand at writing a tanka poem with our fun new infographic.