Join teachers, students and librarians around the globe to kick off National Poetry Month with the fun and delight of Take Your Poet to School Week, including our favorites, Talk Like a Poet Day and Poet in a Cupcake Day!
Top Ten Poetic Picks
Ghost apples, Oscars for books, the poetry of disengagement and the first lines of things. It’s a new edition of the long lost Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Lost in Translation
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Braiding Sweetgrass: No One Asked the Plants
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Gifts of Ritual Together
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Another Poetry at Work Day is in the Books
Another Poetry at Work Day is in the books. Come see how we celebrated all around the world.
Book Club Announcement: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join us on January 16 as we begin a new book club discussion over Robin Wall Kimmerer’s tender, awakening, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass.’
Thanksgiving—Poem by James Whitcomb Riley
May we share love’s touch with another during this Thanksgiving season, even one whose “need of touches we had never known.”
Difficult Conversations: Disorganized Narrative Inside
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Difficult Conversations: Of Sweaters, Birthdays, and Identity
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Difficult Conversations: Mind the Whales
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Difficult Conversations Book Club: Let’s First Hear from Aunt Bertha
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Random Highlights from Random Acts of Poetry Day
We take stock of another richly celebrated Random Acts of Poetry Day with schools, city governments, libraries, refrigerators and … squirrels.
Difficult Conversations Pod Club: On Being’s “The Art of Peace” with John Paul Lederach
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It’s Random Acts of Poetry Day!
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
Environments that allow both extroverts and introverts to thrive are key to flourishing creativity. We’re discussing Susan Cain’s The Power of Introverts.
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.