Do you deep read? Or has your reading entered the danger zone? Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader with Megan Willome. Share your September pages. And, come home.
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It’s Random Acts of Poetry Day!
Do some good in the world today—and maybe change the course of someone’s life. Celebrate Random Acts of Poetry Day by sharing a poem, or listening for one.
Poetry Prompt: The Alphabet—Your Name
What poetry hides in your name? Join Callie Feyen for poetry prompts that have to do with the letters that make up you!
Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—Friends With Edges
We begin our book club discussion of Luke Barr’s Provence, 1970, with a look at the arrival of the iconic chefs and writers to the south of France in 1970.
Reading in the Wild: July’s Pages
Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your July pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her July wild reads.
Writing Prompt: Science Fiction and Ecopoetry
Reports on the state of the planet’s future can sound like dystopian science fiction. Can they also be a clarion call that enlivens our creativity? Join us as we write about our interconnection to the world we’re part of.
Build Your Writing Momentum, With Some Editor TLC
Want to be a better writer? Learn helpful editorial tips in community at our new live Editor TLC events.
By Hand: Stitching and Coloring
By Hand is a monthly prompt focused on freeing our words by using our hands. This month we’re exploring stitching and coloring with Megan Willome as our guide.
A Night of Cowboy Poetry — Poems, Songs, and Cowpunchers
Poetry, music, and cowpunchers took the stage for “A Cowboy’s Night in old Texas.” Megan Willome wore her red boots.
Children’s Book Club: “Frederick”
Poets have their own sort of economy—they harvest words. Join us as we read Leo Lionni’s classic fable “Frederick” with Megan Willome as our guide.
Last Child in the Woods: Green Space
In Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv makes the case for the importance of interaction with nature on our physical and emotional well-being.
Poets and Poems: Dave Malone and “You Know the Ones”
Dave Malone may write about his beloved Missouri Ozarks, but the poems he writes are universal, and about family, friends, and geography.
Family Limericks: Poetry Prompt
While we are often audience to the peculiarities or bizarre habits of the relatives, an opportunity to write a limerick about them might only come once in a lifetime. Here’s your chance.
Curious Book Club: 7 Ways to Stay Curious
As we wrap up our book club discussion of Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, Ian Leslie has 7 ways to stay curious.
Eating and Drinking Poems: Storytelling and Luci Shaw’s “Eating the Whole Egg”
Any family story has multiple versions: what I remember, what you remember, what really happened. Laura Brown reflects on truth, fact, and the whole egg.
Top 10 Best Car and Truck Poems
Cars mean more than transportation or the sum of their parts. They are image, and the memories we make in them. Here are 10 best car and truck poems.
Regional Tour: Grohmann Museum – Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Prasanta Verma tours the Grohmann Museum and ponders the evolution of work and how machines and man fit together. Maybe “Science without art is nothing”?
Memoir Notebook: Harp Dreams and Good Vibrations
Sandra Heska King writes a new story for her life by taking up the harp … again.
Top 10 Fall Poems
Welcome Autumn (and make it last a little longer) with this great collection of Fall poems from Shakespeare to Keats to Browning.
Poetry Prompt: Playground Games
Put away the books and come learn poetry on the playground. Pick your favorite game and join us!