The results of a 6-year double-blind, super-sticky study are in: from Hoagland and Oliver to Shakespeare and Poe, poets are bringing happiness to the workplace.
Between Friends: Wordplay and Other Playful Bonds
Author Laura Brown recounts how a friendship grows through wordplay — a private version of words with friends — for Tweetspeak Poetry’s Friendship Project.
Poetry Prompt: The five senses reading and writing poetry
Instead of asking whether you’ll succeed, what if you asked yourself, “Would I like to try?” It might lead to less worry and more play. And more poetry.
Between Friends: A Playful Reckoning
If home offers a place to launch, maybe it’s because home can be a place where we can play. Callie Feyen explores the idea of play and reckoning with ourselves at home.
Take Your Poet to Work Day!
It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Find all the resources you need to enjoy the company of your favorite poet at work today.
Take Your Poet to Work Day: W. S. Merwin
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
Callie Feyen discovers that writing is one thing, but it is something entirely different to tell a friend what’s on your mind, especially while you’re on a walk around a lake together.
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
Can Mona Lisa’s unnerving smirk help you get comfortable with ambiguity and deepen your creativity? Find out in this week’s book club discussion of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.
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
Author Laura Brown discusses how curiosity deepens friendship, using the children’s book “Can I Touch Your Hair: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship.”
Build Your Friendships With the Power of Curiosity—5 Ideas!
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