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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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Poetry Prompt: Consider the Pumpkin Vine

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

What happens when you take sadness and joy on a walk through a pumpkin patch? Callie Feyen leads a poetry prompt using a poem by Uncle Mose.

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Poetry Prompt: Wise Teachers

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Wise teachers can be found in unexpected places, like gym parking lots. Join us for a poetry prompt about the people who help us find wisdom.

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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: Seeing Stars

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.

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Poetry Prompt: Stoop Sitting

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Before summer ends, step outside for a little stoop sitting. Author Callie Feyen offers a poetry prompt about the place we call home.

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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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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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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: Finding Poetry from Fear

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Author Callie Feyen takes a dare to write nature poetry, finding inspiration from daredevil Robert Frost.

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Wild Words Book Club: Make Believe

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

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In this week’s Wild Words book club discussion, author Callie Feyen invites writers to imagine their lives as a poem, in a reflection on the seasons of going back in time and discontent.

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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: Unsaid Things

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Author Callie Feyen considers all the things unsaid in her weekly poetry prompt—things we can re-see with a little rearranging and remembering.

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Poetry Prompt: Experience a Sonnet

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen in taking a look at the mysterious and lovely world of the sonnet, and experience one for yourself using a variety of easy tools.

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National Poetry Month Group Dare: Create a 30-Day Poetry Journal

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poetry on the Menu Poetry Challenge

Celebrate National Poetry Month and Poetic Earth Month with us with a brand new Poetry Dare: Create a 30-day visual poetry journal using poems from Poetry on the Menu or Earth to Poetry.

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The Writing Life Workshop: A Practice That Sustains

By T.S. Poetry 1 Comment

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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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Poetry Prompt: If I Built A House

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

If you built a house, how big would you dream? Join author Callie Feyen as she remembers a childhood game and invites us to imagine our dream dwelling.

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Poetry Prompt: Use Your Five Senses

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How can writing a poem about the five senses improve a bad day? Author Callie Feyen shows us how, with the help of a first-grade friend.

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