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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ A Clock in the Square

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: On Location

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Leaning Tower of Pisa with Hughes Plath Heaney Frost Barrett Brown for Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Whether you’re going to work, to the beach or to another great destination today, take along your favorite poet.

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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Poet Garden Party

Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day! Join us and your favorite poets for all the smart fun in workplaces around the world.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Adrienne Rich

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Adrienne Rich cover

Take Your Poet to Work Day will be here before you know it. Get ready now with this week’s new poet, Adrienne Rich.

Filed Under: Adrienne Rich, love poems, Poems, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Woman Poems

Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

take your poet to work day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 16. We have a brand new crew of poets that are eager for the chance to go to work with you.

Filed Under: Infographics, poetry, Poetry at Work, poetry humor, Take Your Poet to Work Day

WordCandy Sweet Blogger Roundup

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

wordcandy bowl

We’re featuring a handful of delicious quotes and images from our WordCandy Sweet Bloggers. Have a taste, and try your hand with a WordCandy poetry prompt.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

An inaugural poetry primer, Bill Murray reading Dickinson poems to construction workers, and free books for the taking in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 7 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art Have you ever been perusing Twitter and decided that you wanted to know the story behind the tweet? (The 140-character limitation is a bit of a story killer. Right?) If so, then check out this article about conceptual artists Nate Larson and […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Silver Forks

1 Art For a second, I thought I was looking at one of those excruciating grade school art projects where we cut squares of crêpe paper, wrapped them around our fingertips, dipped into Elmer’s glue and then stuck them down with 3, 762 other tiny pieces of colored crêpe paper on a tag board cut-out to make […]

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New Release with Solid Tribute to Adrienne Rich

By T.S. Poetry 4 Comments

From T. S. Poetry Press, publisher of the Oprah Summer Read The Whipping Club, comes a fiction debut that includes a solid tribute to the late Adrienne Rich. The Novelist, by L.L. Barkat, explores themes of origins and consciousness in the writer and the woman. Readers familiar with the Adrienne Rich volume The Dream of […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 25 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Kimberlee Conway Ireton.

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Everyday Tweets: Adrienne Rich

By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Our first Everyday Tweets is a tribute to poet Adrienne Rich.

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National Poetry Month: Adrienne Rich

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Adrienne Rich (1929 – ) is no stranger to controversy. During the 1960s, her poetry became more confrontational, exploring women’s issues, racism and the Vietnam War. In 1973, she published Diving Into the Wreck, which won the National Book Award for poetry and which Rich shared with her fellow nominees Alica Walker and Audre Lord. […]

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