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The Book of Delights Book Club: Listening by the Lake

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Book of Delights guitar

In this final installment of our book club discussion of The Book of Delights, Ross Gay writes of the small town wave and common decency.

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The Book of Delights Book Club: Simply Called Sharing What We Love

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Venice brick building

In this week’s book club discussion of The Book of Delights, Ross Gay riffs on the delight (and ethics) of simply sharing what you love.

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Book Club Announcement: Resilient by Rick Hanson

By Laura Boggess 9 Comments

Resilient book club

In August, Laura Boggess leads our next book club discussion of Rick Hanson’s Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakeable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. Join us!

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The Book of Delights Book Club: High Five from Strangers

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

The Book of Delights - monkeys playing

In this week’s book club discussion of Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, we are finding delight in a sleeping gecko, an umbrella, a green bottle, high fives, and more.

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Book Club Announcement: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Delightful sheep with bucket

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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To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club: Callings & Beyond Endings

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Sunset behind shed

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

To Bless the Space Between Us Book Club; photo of trees in desert

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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Wild Words Book Club: Ending to Begin

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

winter trees and ice

A season of finishing can also be a time for a beginning. And seasons of retreat can be opportunities for turning outward. Callie Feyen concludes her book club discussion of Nicole Gulotta’s Wild Words this week.

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Wild Words Book Club: Finding And Using Your Wings

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Wagtail in rain - wild words book club

In this week’s Wild Words book club discussion, Callie Feyen considers the liminal spaces we find ourselves in, and how we emerge from them to new ways of being.

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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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Wild Words Book Club: Return to Yourself

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

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In this week’s Wild Words book club discussion, Callie Feyen considers the role of our feelings in moving our writing forward. Join us!

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Wild Words Book Club: Make Believe

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Imagination Polka Dot Bag

In this week’s Wild Words book club discussion, author Callie Feyen invites writers to imagine their lives as a poem, in a reflection on the seasons of going back in time and discontent.

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Wild Words Book Club: 5 Ways To Begin

By Callie Feyen 15 Comments

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In this first installment of the Wild Words book club, Callie Feyen reflects on five ways her writing has started, and the ways beginning and doubting intersect.

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Book Club Announcement: Wild Words by Nicole Gulotta

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Waves crash on rocks

Author Nicole Gulotta introduces our next book club, Wild Words, a book that serves as a gentle guide to navigating the writing life through its seasons.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Divinest Sense

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense–’ as our guide.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Tell It Slant

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant–’ as our guide.

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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: The Thing With Feathers

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

graphic novel Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” using Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers–” as our guide.

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Book Club Announcement: ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper: a graphic novel’ (+ two more book clubs for spring)

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Sara Barkat

“When I teach poetry,” says author Megan Willome, “I remind people that there is no secret code to crack. So also with this story. There isn’t one right answer — or rather, there are as many answers as there are shades of yellow.” Come share your palette of views, in our new book club!

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Deaf Republic Book Club: Act Two

By Will Willingham Leave a Comment

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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