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Ask Pearl: Vamping Vapers, Organizing Stacks, Filling the Hollow Leg

By Pearl Jenkins 7 Comments

Frozen trees in snow

Pearl Jenkins answers a new set of reader questions with advice on vaping, organizing, and filling a grandson’s hollow leg.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Ask Pearl

Ask Pearl: Up on the Rooftop, a Problem with Groceries, Shameless Flattery

By Pearl Jenkins 10 Comments

Starry winter night

In this week’s Ask Pearl column, Pearl wrangles questions … about on sitting on the roof to see the stars, hanging out with other people’s boyfriends, and the best way to grocery shop.

Filed Under: Ask Pearl, Blog

Poetry Prompt: The Female Monster

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she takes a look at vampires and the other monsters, including the dreaded lamia. And join us for a poetry prompt — if you dare.

Filed Under: Blog, Halloween Poems, John Keats, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Vampire Poems, writing prompt, writing prompts

Ask Pearl: The Advice Columnist You Didn’t Know You Needed

By Pearl Jenkins 15 Comments

Ask Pearl Advice Column Brownie plate

You don’t know it yet, but you need a little Pearl Jenkins in your life. In a brand new advice column, Adjustments character Pearl Jenkins offers up advice on everything from etiquette to dating.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Ask Pearl, Blog

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and the Body + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

National Poetry Month Tony Hoagland golden boat

Poems, perhaps more especially now the ones that talk about bodies, have the means to calm and they make me grateful, like Hoagland, “for the lives I / never have to live again.”

Filed Under: Blog, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Top 10 Poetic Picks birds

Ghost apples, Oscars for books, the poetry of disengagement and the first lines of things. It’s a new edition of the long lost Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry

From Artist’s Way to Museum Art Camp

By Donna Falcone 13 Comments

Artist Way Stained glass

Donna Falcone joined our Artist’s Way book club on a whim—and wrote down a dream. Six years later, a beautiful, unexpected thing has occurred.

Filed Under: Art Education & Theory, Blog, Music, The Artist's Way

Texas Stories: The Invisibility of Seasons

By Will Willingham 17 Comments

crepe myrtle invisibility of seasons

Moving to a warmer climate meant living with a sense of being in a season of no seasons and a recalibration to find the more subtle markers of time, like the blooming of crepe myrtle.

Filed Under: Blog, Patron Only, Texas Stories

Nothing Lost: Shakespeare Adapted

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

back to school

Nothing is lost when you take the time to see Shakespeare adapted—in film or on stage.

Filed Under: Blog, Shakespeare

Born To Be Good: The Jen Ratio

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Born to be Good book club - glasses and pear

In our first Born To Be Good book club discussion, Dacher Keltner introduces the jen ratio, a means of measuring the “millisecond manifestations of human goodness.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Born to Be Good

The Surprise of “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens

By Glynn Young 13 Comments

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Surprisingly, “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens isn’t one of his best works, but it contains elements of the genius for which he’d become famous.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, London

The Wild Swans: The Patience of Water

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

The Wild Swans book club

We wrap up our group reading of The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris, considering the patience of water and things to which we will give long years of our lives.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, The Wild Swans

The Wild Swans: I Did Love to Fly

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

The Wild Swans

This month we’re reading The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris together. Join us for a conversation about wishes and curses and, of course, swans (and maybe write a poem to the fairy tale).

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairy Tale Poems, The Wild Swans

Book Club Announcement: The Wild Swans

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The Wild Swans book club announcement

Join us during National Poetry Month 2017 to read The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris and write poems to the fairy tale together.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, National Poetry Month, The Wild Swans

Adjuster Stories: Storytelling as an Intentional Act

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Storytelling as an Intentional Act snowy woods scene

When you wind up in one of those places that feels like it has the makings of a B horror movie, you might as well start telling the story right then. Will Willingham has an adjuster story reminding us of how storytelling can be a way of understanding.

Filed Under: Adjuster Stories, Adjustments

The Magician’s Elephant Book Club: Magic Words

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

The Magician's Elephant book club purple hydrangea

Can a simple question like “What if” be the magic words that open doors and change the world? We wrap up our book club discussion of Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant this week.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Magician's Elephant

The Magician’s Elephant Book Club: The Truth is Forever Changing

By Will Willingham 22 Comments

The Magician's Elephant book club tiny yellow flowers on black

The truth is always changing, the fortuneteller says. Perhaps she’s right. Or perhaps more than one thing is true at once. Our discussion of The Magician’s Elephant continues.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Magician's Elephant

The Magician’s Elephant Book Club: Naming Names

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

Magicians Elephant book club - old wooden door

In this week’s book club discussion of Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant, we consider the power of names and naming.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, The Magician's Elephant

Confessions of a Serial Novel Writer

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Confessions of a Serial Writer - gravel road and blue sky

Serial fiction presents unique challenges and opportunities for a fiction writer. Will Willingham looks at the process like trying to outrun a gravel truck.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, Fiction, Writing Tips

Poets & Writers Toolkit: The Ultimate Website You Can Totally Make

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Ultimate website you can make lush purple grapes

We creative people don’t often think of a website as one of the tools in our poets and writers toolkit, but a good website is one of our best assets. Find out why, and the difference between available options.

Filed Under: Author Websites, Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, Website Design

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