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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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Poetry Prompt: Banquet Poems

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How can poetry be found in uncomfortable situations? Join author Callie Feyen (and some spiders) at a high school sports banquet.

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Poetry Prompt: It’s the Setting

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

What role does setting play in your poetry? Join author Callie Feyen as she explores how setting can be used to move our writing forward.

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Poetry Prompt: Homecoming Poems

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pine cone homecoming poems

Join author Callie Feyen as she considers the romantic struggle that is Homecoming and offers a poetry prompt about rites of passage.

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Poetry Prompt: Dickinson the Series & Code Poems

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

red fox Wyoming wildlife code poems

Join author Callie Feyen as she watches Dickinson the Series, tries to crack the code of a Dickinson poem, and invites you to write your own code poem.

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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!

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Poetry Prompt: Love In Algebra

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

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Join author Callie Feyen for a poetry prompt as she considers the many ways (some mathematical) to say, “I love you.”

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Poetry Prompt: Writing Letters of Three

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

red toadstool letters to the forest

Join author Callie Feyen for a poetry prompt as she thinks about an idea for teaching, but chooses instead to pick hydrangeas.

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Poetry Prompt: Of Plagues and Emergence

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

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Join author Callie Feyen for a poetry prompt about an unexpected emergence and what to do now with this plague and need.

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Poetry Prompt: Small Things—Quivering Carrot Leaves and Trampled Daisies

By Callie Feyen 10 Comments

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The big things in our lives can often be best written by focusing on small things. Join us for a poetry prompt about how to say it plainly.

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Poetry Prompt: The Poetry of Ordinary Time

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Find magic in the ordinary

What magic can you find in your ordinary life, during ordinary time? Join Callie Feyen for a poetry prompt about the magic in the ordinary.

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Poetry Prompt: So Many Other Better Things To Do

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Callie Feyen finds poetry for the crisis, both external and internal. Join her for a summer poetry prompt about what to do besides worry.

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Poetry Prompt: Name Poems

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

How much of what you're called do you hold?

What stories does your name hold, and how do they shape who you are and how you live? Join Callie Feyen for a name poems prompt.

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Poetry Prompt: Peonies on How To Open Up

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores what it means to open ourselves up in this world. Just like the peonies.

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Poetry Prompt: Giving and Receiving with Creative Nonfiction

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores ways of giving and receiving with creative nonfiction as a guide.

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An Ode to Poetry: “How to Write a Form Poem” by Tania Runyan

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

“How to Write a Form Poem” by Tania Runyan is a guide to 10 poetic forms. It also stands as an ode to poetry.

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Poetry Prompt: Notebooks Trying To Tell

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What have you been trying to tell yourself? Callie Feyen finds patterns, threads, and whispers in an old journal and “Kristin Lavransdatter.”

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Reading Generously: The Great Gatsby Poetry

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Pontiac GTO

In her new edition, Tania Runyan says ‘The Great Gatsby’ might as well be poetry. Megan Willome puts that assertion to the poetic test.

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Poetry Prompt: What’s Left Now

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

What poetry comes from what's left now?

What fragments of love can you find (and write about) from what’s left now? Callie Feyen uses a poem by Marjorie Maddox for inspiration.

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Poetry Prompt: Choose Risk Over Cuteness —The Acrostic Poem

By Callie Feyen 16 Comments

What do you risk when write an acrostic?

Think the acrostic poem is too cute? Think again. Join Callie Feyen and Tania Runyan and see how risky the form can be.

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