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Great Gatsby Fashion: Jay Gatsby Goes to Goodwill

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

The Great Gatsby Fashion Vintage 1920s Party-George Barbier "Au Revoir"

Learn a little about Great Gatsby fashion, then get creative and put your learning into a poem. Read a Gatsby poem by Tania Runyan first, to get started!

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Poetry Prompt: ‘Twelfth Night’ and the Fool

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What do you do when reading (or living) a difficult story? Callie Feyen suggests you consider poetry and Shakespeare’s Fool from ‘Twelfth Night.’

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Fiction Prompt: Chapter Four, Into the Gray with Campfire Pies

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Our fiction series continues as Carter moves deeper into the gray, with campfire pies. Join author Callie Feyen for chapter 4.

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Poetry Prompt: At Home Poems

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

This year might mean not being at home for the holidays. Join us and look for poetry in your (perhaps) altered plans with this prompt.

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Poetry Prompt: Beauty in a Pandemic

By Callie Feyen 9 Comments

There is beauty — even in a pandemic. These days after Thanksgiving, follow a poetry prompt about the natural beauty you are grateful for.

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Poetry Prompt: What a Memory Is

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What is a memory? A 96-year-old woman and a small boy are searching for the answer. Author Callie Feyen searches for poetry in what they find.

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Poetry Prompt: Do Something You Love And Tell About It

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What would you do if your teacher gave you this assignment: Do something you love and then tell about it? Join author Callie Feyen as she and her daughters try to complete the task.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ A Clock in the Square

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.

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Poetry Prompt: Dor

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.

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Poetry Prompt: Include a Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt about the power of metaphor. Especially when the ocean is involved.

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How to Like Your Essays, More and More

By Charity Singleton Craig 2 Comments

Levels Tools for The Art of the Essay

If you want to like your essays, more and more, it helps to begin by liking others’ work—and seeing what *makes* it work. Get inspiration for how. Plus prompts! From author Charity Singleton Craig.

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Poetry Prompt: To the Horizon

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What memories do you have of swimming as a child? Join Callie Feyen as thinks about her own summertime memories and of swimming to the horizon.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Every Morning

By T.S. Poetry 18 Comments

the tea

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: Swimming in Sand

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a poetry prompt about swimming in sand, drawn from memories of several trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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Poetry Prompt: For the Birds

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you need to push away from in order to take flight? Join Callie Feyen as she considers resistance as a mighty force that’s not just for the birds.

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Poetry Prompt: Poems of Emergence

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

The 17-year cicada will emerge this summer. What else is emerging in the world? Join author Callie Feyen as she considers how to write poems of emergence.

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The Play’s the Thing: Winter Stars is Born

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

Winter Sugar Stars

Do you have a writing dream? Maybe it’s time to funnel it in a new direction. That’s what happened for Sonia Barkat, with Winter Stars.

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Poetry Prompt: Use Your Words

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

In a time when touch is largely prohibited, author Callie Feyen invites us to turn to poetry to express how we feel about friendship—using more than words.

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Poetry Prompt: Baiku Poems

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

We have all been thrust into a new season, and it hasn’t been easy (to say the least). Callie Feyen introduces us to baiku, a haiku about saying goodbye. So that we can say hello to the new.

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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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