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Take Your Poet to Work: Robert Frost

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Robert Frost

We continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration. This week we welcome Robert Frost to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: poetry, Robert Frost, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Maya Angelou

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

As we continue to get ready for the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Celebration, this week we welcome Maya Angelou to our collection of ready-for-work poets.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Maya Angelou, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: William Shakespeare

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

William Shakespeare

We kick off the release of our 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poets collection with the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: It’s About Access (and Ice Cream)

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

take your poet to work day ice cream truck

At its heart, like the ice cream truck peddling frozen treats on a stick, Take Your Poet to Work Day is about access. Enjoy some highlights from our annual celebration.

Filed Under: Blog, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

woman in red dress

How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Poet Garden Party

Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day! Join us and your favorite poets for all the smart fun in workplaces around the world.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Free Coloring Book

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

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We’re just days away from Take Your Poet to Work Day. Stop in and pick up a free Take Your Poet to Work coloring book to help you and your favorite poet get ready for the big day!

Filed Under: Coloring Page Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. Meet our final poet in this year’s collection, Sylvia Plath.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Sylvia Plath, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Villanelles

Take Your Poet to Work: Christina Rossetti

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Christina Rossetti Take Your Poet to Work

Victorian poet Christina Rossetti is dressed and ready to go to work with you on Take Your Poet to Work Day.

Filed Under: Christina Rossetti, love poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: W. B. Yeats

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work W.B. Yeats

Have you chosen your favorite poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day? W. B. Yeats joins our growing collection of ready-for-work poets today.

Filed Under: love poems, love poetry, Poems, Poets, Take Your Poet to Work Day, W. B. Yeats

Take Your Poet to Work: John Keats

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work John Keats

Romantic poet John Keats trained as an apothecary. He’d be a great help in the lab this afternoon. He’s the latest in our Take Your Poet to Work collection.

Filed Under: Blog, John Keats, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Adrienne Rich

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Adrienne Rich cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day will be here before you know it. Get ready now with this week’s new poet, Adrienne Rich.

Filed Under: Adrienne Rich, love poems, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Woman Poems

Take Your Poet to Work: Langston Hughes

By Will Willingham 20 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Langston Hughes cover

Be the envy of your coworkers when you bring Langston Hughes to the office with you for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 16. He’s our first poet of 2014.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, English Teaching Resources, Langston Hughes, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

take your poet to work day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 16. We have a brand new crew of poets that are eager for the chance to go to work with you.

Filed Under: Infographics, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Serious Fun: How We Spent Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

take your poet to work silverstein

From Neruda driving the morning commute to T.S. Eliot settling down for a good night’s sleep, we celebrated Take Your Poet to Work Day around the world. Enjoy a recap of our favorite images and tweets.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

take your poet to work neruda and teasdale in grass

When we first conceived of Take Your Poet to Work Day, I had no idea how complicated it would be to wrangle a herd of poets out the door and off to the job. And once we got going, it didn’t get any easier. Eliot kept trying to take the wheel.

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

Take Your Poet to Work Day is July 19, 2017 (Infographic)

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

take your poet to work day infographic cover

Wednesday, July 17, is Take Your Poet to Work Day. Our infographic has 6 easy ways you can celebrate the day.

Filed Under: poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Edgar Allan Poe

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Edgar Allan Poe cover

Ever wish you could take your favorite poet to work? Now you can. Edgar Allan Poe joins our featured poets for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 17.

Filed Under: poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Rumi

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work - Rumi

Ever wish you could take your favorite poet along with you to work? You know, have Rumi help you mix the chemicals for that lab experiment you’re working on. Or serve up a poet on a stick along with the sandwiches to your lunch customers. With Take Your Poet to Work Day just around the corner, now you can.

Filed Under: Anniversary Poems, Attentiveness Poems, Blog, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, poetry humor, poetry teaching resources, Rumi Poems, Short Poems, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Emily Dickinson cover

Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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