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Poetry Prompt: Just the Facts

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Just the facts, Ma’am becomes the beginning of poetry, when you take those facts and begin to stack them up. Try this Just the Facts prompt!

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Poetry Prompt: Purple Moths + Dragons

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

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Join author Callie Feyen as she considers purple moths and dragons and the asymmetry of the world and herself.

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Poetry Prompt: One Word to Take You Home

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

New South Wales Sydney Ferry

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores using one word to describe a tough experience and uses it to create a story.

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Poetry Prompt: The Five Whys

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Five Windmills

Join author Callie Feyen as she asks the 5 Whys to get to the root cause of a problem and, in the process, writes Because Poems.

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Poetry Prompt: Simple Poems for Frustrated Writers

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

What simple poems can you write from the stuff of your days? Callie Feyen she considers the role of simplicity for frustrated writers.

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Poetry Prompt: Observation Poems

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Observation poems lead to action. Join author Callie Feyen as she reads, writes, and acts on Dave Malone’s poem “Tornado Drill.”

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Poetry Prompt: Baseball Poems

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

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Join author Callie Feyen as she pays tribute to her father-in-law, and baseball. Then prompts you to write baseball poems!

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Children’s Book Club: Children’s Poetry and What the Heart Knows

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

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Children’s poetry speaks to the child within us. Join us as we read Joyce Sidman’s “What the Heart Knows” for National Poetry Month.

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Poetry Prompt: Haiku for Dreaming, Wishing, and Becoming

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

If you can dream it, you can haiku it. Join author Callie Feyen as she shares how a new job is impacting her writing life.

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How To Read Poetry: Hermit Crab Essay 004

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Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)

How do you read poetry? “It is enough to enter,” says Todd Boss. Author Callie Feyen uses Todd’s poem to give you the easy secrets to poetry reading!

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Poetry Prompt: Six-Room Poetry

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Join author Callie Feyen as she wallows in the Michigan fog. That is, until her daughter changes her mind and prompts poetry.

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Poetry Prompt: 5 Things to Do With A Mistake

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

How many ways can you look at a mistake? Join Callie Feyen and take your mistake out for a walk. And write a poem about the process.

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Poetry Prompt: A Not-Yet Valentine

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

This week join author Callie Feyen as she writes a Valentine poem for people who aren’t Romeo and Juliet. Yet.

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Poetry Prompt: Be Your Own Professor — Haiku for Understanding

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Leopard mom and baby snuggling

Something magical can happen when you read a challenging story and then become your own professor — with a summary and haiku.

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Poetry Prompt: How Do You Spell “Communicate”?

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

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How do communicate with a would-be writer? How do you even spell “communicate”? Callie Feyen has the answer.

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Hermit Crab Essay 002: How To Teach Poetry To Seventh Graders

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Teaching poetry to 7th graders begins with vulnerability. Join author Callie Feyen and she walks us through a scene in a middle school classroom.

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Poetry Prompt: Football, West Side Story & Mary Oliver

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

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What do football, West Side Story, and Mary Oliver have in common? Each invites us to keep looking. Join Callie Feyen for a Perspective poetry prompt.

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Poetry Prompt: Soundtrack of Your Life

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Author Callie Feyen invites us to write a poem about the soundtrack of our life and aim at universal themes. Just like on “The OC.”

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Poetry Prompt: Song Title Poetry

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

guitar frets

Try writing Song Title Poetry! All you need is a pad of sticky notes, a playlist of favorite songs, and your imagination.

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Poetry Prompt: Gratitude Poems

By Callie Feyen 33 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she walks through her dark morning and writes a gratitude poem and invites you to write your own gratitude poems.

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