We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like W. S. Merwin.
Poetry Notebook Prompt: Noticing + Wondering
Author Callie Feyen uses her gray matter—”Bink & Gollie” style—to explain how poetry and feelings are related. And how to make great Dutch braids.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: Mary Oliver
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like Mary Oliver.
By Heart: “The Star” + New “Kindness” Challenge
Join author Megan Willome as she learns Jane Taylor’s “The Star” By Heart and gets a little twinkly. Lil Wayne sings along.
Between Friends: Poetry as Shorthand
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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tony Hoagland
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like Tony Hoagland.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: C. D. Wright
We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection kicks off with with American poet C. D. Wright.
Poetry Prompt: Dream Poems
Join author Callie Feyen and walk, run, stumble, and maybe even twirl towards your dreams in our Monday poetry prompt.
Friendship Project: Let’s Walk: A Thousand Goodbyes — A Thousand Hellos
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June Photo & Poem Prompt: Possibility
Look for texture with your camera (or your poem!)—go exploring and find some unexpected possibility.
Reader, Come Home: “The Odyssey”
Join Megan Willome as she completes a deep read of the hero Odysseus in Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Odyssey.” And share your May pages.
Book Club: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Sfumato
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Poetry Prompt: Walking Towards Beauty
Author Callie Feyen invites us to take a walk, ask hard questions, and find beauty in a broken world. Share it through poetry.
The Power of Curiosity: “Can I Touch Your Hair?” by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
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Build Your Friendships With the Power of Curiosity—5 Ideas!
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Questions & Curiosity: Why This Aphorism?
Take a saying that’s become cliché, and give it a new life when you question and then write a poem!
Questions & Curiosity: Wonder Plant Prompt
Join us this week to wonder about a common plant you may have passed by. Find your questions, then your answers, and then—your poem!
Children’s Book Club: “Dear Mr. Henshaw”
If Leigh Botts can become a writer, so can you. Join author Megan Willome as we read Beverly Cleary’s ‘Dear Mr. Henshaw’ for the Children’s Book Club.
Travel and Love: The Poetry of Catharine Savage Brosman
The poetry of Catharine Savage Brosman, especially in her later collections, is about travel, and the love she has for her “then and now again” husband.
May Photo ‘n Poem Prompt: Finding Wonder in the World
Join us with photographer Kellē Sauer, who’s prompting us at Poetic Earth Month, to find wonder in the world—in poems and/or photos.