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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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Wild Words Book Club: Return to Yourself

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Wild Words book club pink finger flower

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

Wild Words Book Club muffins bakingWild Words Book Club muffins baking

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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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 08—Poetics

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

trees in swamp

Trees and tree poems are an apt reflection of the writing process. In the eighth episode of Under the Canopy, Laurie Klein shares a poem from A. R. Ammons.

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Book Club Announcement: Wild Words by Nicole Gulotta

By Nicole Gulotta Leave a Comment

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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The Incredible Hulk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Gwendolyn Brooks

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Gwendolyn Brooks

Callie Feyen marshalls Gwendolyn Brooks, the Incredible Hulk and Red Riding Hood in this reflection on teaching, imagination, wisdom and poetry in the varied parts of ourselves.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 07—The Maples of Dachau

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

Poems to Listen By red maple leaves

In the latest Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein shares a poignant poem with a darker understory.

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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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Deaf Republic Book Club: Act One

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Deaf Republic old water fountain

In our first installment of the Deaf Republic book club, we consider hope’s impossibility in the midst of unending devastation.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 06—Buddy Story

By Laurie Klein 5 Comments

Poems to Listen By Trees and Waterfall

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The Silver Chair Book Club: A Pattern That Others Made

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Snowfall and pines on mountain

In this final installment of our book club discussion of The Silver Chair, our trio rescue the Prince, and make their way back to Narnia, but not before discovering an important truth about the others with whom we share space in the world.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: The Darkness Around Us Is Deep

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The Silver Chair book club dark stone springs

In the dramatic escape scene of a children’s story, we discover important truths about staying awake to our lives and the world around us. Join us for the latest installment in our book club discussion of The Silver Chair.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: The Circus Won’t Find the Park

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

The Silver Chair stony outcroppings

Our young heroes continue their quest to rescue the Prince, and discover a hard learned secret about being in it together as our discussion of The Silver Chair continues.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 05—Lost and Found

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

pine in sunlight

Laurie Klein features a poem by Andrew Hudgins in the latest Poems to Listen By podcast. Is it a coming of age reflection, or a story of lost and found?

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The Silver Chair Book Club: Horrible Errors of Childhood

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

mountains and clouds for The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

In the first installment of The Silver Chair book club, we consider the errors of childhood that haunt us in our efforts to good in the world.

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