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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Jorge Luis Borges

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Jorge Luis Borges Take Your Poet to Work Day cover

We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection starts with Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges.

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Spending Take Your Poet to Work Day In and Out of Pocket

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Crayons for Take Your Poet to Work Day

We celebrated our 5th annual Take Your Poet to Work Day this week. Check out all the fun places our favorite poets hung out!

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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

Take Your Poet to Work Day featured

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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Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming!

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Poe

Take Your Poet to Work Day is just around the corner. Start planning now (and eating Popsicles) to get your favorite poet ready for work on July 19!

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Just Want to Have Pun

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Wright Longfellow Brown at Sydney Opera House

We celebrated the fourth annual Take Your Poet to Work Day yesterday and discovered that, in many cases, our Poets Just Want to Have Pun.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: On Location

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Leaning Tower of Pisa with Hughes Plath Heaney Frost Barrett Brown for Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Whether you’re going to work, to the beach or to another great destination today, take along your favorite poet.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming: Here’s Our Free Coloring Book!

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Coloring Book Cover

Celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day with our free poets coloring book, newly updated for 2016, and let your poet explore your workplace.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow cover

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. For our final addition to our poet collection for 2016, meet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Judith Wright

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Judith Wright cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Australian poet and activist Judith Wright.

Filed Under: Australian Poets, Blog, Judith Wright, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Brontë

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Emily Brontë cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Emily Brontë.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Seamus Heaney

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Seamus Heaney cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Seamus Heaney, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - Elizabeth Barrett Browning featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Teaching Resources, love poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: William Wordsworth

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day - William Wordsworth Featured

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! We kick off the release of this year’s poet collection with English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Emily Dickinson - Sylvia Plath - WB Yeats with coffee

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day. Check out coffee shop GIF winner and learn 3 great ways to celebrate with your poet at work today.

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Win $100 with Your Poet at a Coffee Shop GIF!

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

Win-100-Coffee-Shop-Take-Your-Poet-to-Work-GIF

Can you make a GIF? Then you could win $100 for going to your favorite coffee shop with your poet, and making a GIF by Tuesday, July 14, 2015.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Walt Whitman cover

We round out the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poet collection with today’s release of America’s poet, Walt Whitman.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Wisława Szymborska

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Wisława Szymborska cover

Meet Polish poet Wisława Szymborska as we continue our preparations for celebrating Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 15.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Wislawa Szymborska

Take Your Poet to Work: Anna Akhmatova

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Anna Akhmatova Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 15. This week, we add Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova to our collection.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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