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Mischief Café: Little Rock, Arkansas

By Laura Lynn Brown 19 Comments

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When Laura Lynn Brown hosted a Mischief Cafe in her home in Little Rock, she thought her guests might discuss their relationships to poetry. She didn’t expect a stealth sock.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Tea

Mischief Cafe: Lincoln, Nebraska

By L.L. Barkat 20 Comments

Christmas Lights Blue Trees

How do we love, across gaps and miles, and different ways of holding our teacups? The Mischief Café asks serious questions amidst great laughter.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry at Home

Mischief Cafe: Colorado Springs School, CO

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

The Mischief Cafe makes a stop to the Colorado Springs School. Poetry, elusive tea, and cinnamon bread prevail after a snowy trip through Vail.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Recipes

Mischief Cafe: San Francisco and Trouble Coffee

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Trouble Coffee Yosemite sign

From mind-reading cat ears, to Trouble Coffee in two locations, the San Francisco Mischief Café is full of adjustments.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, Mischief Café, Sestina

Mischief Cafe: Seattle, Washington

By L.L. Barkat 24 Comments

Dandelion in Fall Mischief Cafe

The 11-day Mischief Cafe tour begins, and the defining quality will be surprise (with plenty of hilarity to go along with it).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café

The Mischief Cafe: Basking Ridge, New Jersey

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Mischief Cafe Cinnamon Toast

The very first Mischief Cafe had everything one might expect: tea, toast, poetry. And not a few unexpected moments (and black feathers).

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, poetry teaching resources

Poetry at Home—With Mischief, Toast, and Tea

By L.L. Barkat 22 Comments

Poetry is for life, not for ivory towers. That’s why we’re taking it home, with mischief, toast, and tea, through a new initiative called The Mischief Café.

Filed Under: Blog, Mischief Café, Poetry for Life

Reading Kubla Khan: A Mischief Café Dream

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Kubla Khan Poem in Woods

What better place to read Kubla Khan than in a dream-like woodland? What better place to discuss mischief and controlled chaos.

Filed Under: Blog, Classic Poetry, Dream Poems, Mischief Café

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