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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tania Runyan

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Our 2020 Take Your Poet to Work Day ready-for-work poet collection features our first living poet, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Tania Runyan.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen Take Your Poet to Work Day

We continue our 2020 Take Your Poet to Work celebration with fabulous poet Countee Cullen.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Lucille Clifton

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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We kick off the 2020 Take Your Poet to Work celebration with beloved poet Lucille Clifton.

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Looking for Workplace Wisdom: It’s Poetry at Work Day 2020

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

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It’s Poetry at Work Day 2020, and went looking for books and writing about wisdom in the workplace. We found some surprises. Celebrate with us!

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It’s Poetry at Work Day — Discovering the Poetry of Gratitude

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Poetry at Work Day 2019

Today is 2019 Poetry at Work Day, with a tale of how a book of poetry led to one of the writer’s best work projects — and to gratitude for the work.

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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

All the Poets

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Choose a poet, color and cut out and glue it to a Popsicle stick to delight your coworkers with the best kind of poetry at work.

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Poetry on the Brain: It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Poets on the Brain

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Not surprisingly, we’ve got poetry on the brain today.

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Share the Fun of Take Your Poet to Work Day with our New Poster

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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It’s almost Take Your Poet to Work Day! Share the fun of this annual celebration in your workplace with our new printable poster.

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“The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens” by Paul Mariani

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

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In “The Whole Harmonium,” biographer and poet Paul Mariani tells the story of Wallace Stevens, poet, philosopher, insurance executive, and family man.

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2017 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

The annual worldwide celebration of Poetry at Work Day is coming January 10. Start getting your workplace ready with our free new 2017 poster designs.

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Poetry at Work Day: Math, Science, the Moon (well, Asteroids)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Poetry at Work Day 2016

It seems as though the whole universe participated in this year’s Poetry at Work Day celebration. Here are our highlights of the day.

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Celebrate! It’s Poetry at Work Day 2016!

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

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Poetry is in all work, speaking to us, singing to us. Download our resources, and come, celebrate Poetry at Work Day 2016 with us.

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2016 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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As we prepare for this year’s Poetry at Work Day, we are delighted to offer you our new Poetry at Work Day poster for 2016.

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Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes—The Whopper Edition

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes

Can you put a little poetry into the NASDAQ? Give it a try with a found poem line or poem starter from an issue of Forbes.

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Top Ten Favorites from Poetry at Work Day 2015

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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As our third annual celebration of Poetry at Work Day concludes, we give you our top ten highlights, 47 tweets at a time.

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Mark the Mammoth Celebrates Poetry at Work Day

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Mark the Mammoth Poetry at Work Day

We’ll have a full wrap-up of our 2015 Poetry at Work Day celebration tomorrow, but today, enjoy the poems of Mark the Mammoth.

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Get Your Free Official 2015 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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This year’s official Poetry at Work Day poster, suitable for hanging in your workplace (or framing in your kitchen, which may even be your workplace), is now available.

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Poets and Poems: Jillian Weise and “The Book of Goodbyes”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Fall Leaf Book of Goodbyes

“The Book of Goodbyes” by Jillian Weise is a collection of poems that are sometimes raw, sometimes searing, but always arresting and always honest.

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The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Poets and Poems: Boris Pasternak and “February”

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

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“February: Poems” by Boris Pasternak reflect the poet (and novelist’s) experience of living in a Russia marked by war, revolution, civil war, and oppressive communism.

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