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Perspective: The Poet Takes a Bike Ride

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Vancouver Island forests

How does a poet gain perspective? Megan Willome takes a bike ride—in Canada. Share your August reads, fellow poets!

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The Surprise Leap: Notes on the Writing Life

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Storm clouds over field of canola

As in the rest of life, the writing life is about more than beginning. Often times, what defines the work (and who we are) happens in the middles.

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Poetry Prompt: Poems on the Writing Life

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Chase Water, Cannock, England

Poems on the Writing Life start with life—whether real or imagined. Take a walk with author Callie Feyen and find your “writing life” poems!

Filed Under: Blog, poems about writing, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Writing Life, writing prompt, writing prompts

On Finishing a Poem & the Top of Your Head

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Large pink flower

Emily Dickinson and a group of young divers help Callie Feyen by the side of the pool as she ponders how to go about finishing a poem.

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On Rest, Hammocks, and Wasting a Life With James Wright

By Melissa Reeser Poulin 4 Comments

Golden sunset behind branches - backyard at rest

What does it mean to waste a life? Melissa Poulin explores James Wright and how, from the hammock’s viewpoint, wasting a life and living fully might be inextricably intertwined.

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On Writing and Living in the World: Coming Back To Life

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Blue moth - writing life coming back to life

As the world begins to reopen, Callie Feyen explores the ways we protect ourselves, and the ways we can begin coming back to life.

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A Blessing for Writers

By L.L. Barkat 13 Comments

Tree Reaching by Lyndhurst Mansion-A Blessing for Writers Poem

What does the writer need in order to go forward? So many things. This “blessing for writers” wishes them for you, beginning with a silken string…

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How Blogging Works for Writers: Think Seasons

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

winter tree with sunlight-how blogging works

Author Megan Willome shares how blogging works, through seasons, and why she is currently letting the space lie fallow.

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Books on Writing: A Line of Words

By Rebecca D. Martin 3 Comments

Bird in wintry tree

Annie Dillard, Madeleine L’Engle, Charity Singleton Craig and Andrew Peterson guide Rebecca D. Martin on a wander through the writing books on her shelf.

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

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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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 Writing Life Workshop: A Practice That Sustains

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

Pink Flowers Spring Up

The writing life must be just that—a life—if it is to sustain. But how do you develop that life on a practical level? Or, how do you jumpstart it if it seems to have slipped away? Come together with an encouraging community and stir new writing habits and inspiration, in a workshop that will show you the ways.

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Friendship Project: Somebody I Used To Know

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Writers Block Coffee Shop

When writer’s block threatens to derail, one writer finds a way forward in music, baking, friendship and the practice of “living it a while.”

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Songwriting and Writing: “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

“Adorning the Dark” by writer and songwriter Andrew Peterson speaks to the mystery at the center of writing, creativity, and inspiration.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Creativity, Writing, Writing Life

“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: Slant

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

Charity Singleton Craig

In a tell-all environment, how do we write essays when we can’t tell it all? We tell it slant. Join us for our book club on ‘The Art of the Essay.”

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The Writing Life: Somehow Beginnings

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

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