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The Magician’s Elephant Book Club: Naming Names

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

Magicians Elephant book club - old wooden door

In this week’s book club discussion of Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant, we consider the power of names and naming.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Stories, The Magician's Elephant

Book Club Announcement: The Magician’s Elephant

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant Book Club

Join us for our new book club coming up in September. We’ll be asking “what if” with Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, The Magician's Elephant

The Joy of Poetry Book Club: In Your Dreams

By Will Willingham 57 Comments

The Joy of Poetry Book club pink rose

Like Kipling’s lullaby, a poem that acknowledges the terrors of the night can help disarm them. Our discussion of Megan Willome’s The Joy of Poetry continues, with a look at poetry and dreams.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Dream Poems, poetry, The Joy of Poetry

The Joy of Poetry Book Club: Stick With Poetry

By Will Willingham 72 Comments

The joy of Poetry Book Club yellow rose with blue flowers

Megan Willome says she’d tell her 13-year-old self to stick with poetry. Tell us about your 13-year-old self in our Joy of Poetry book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, The Joy of Poetry, writer's group resources

Book Club Announcement: The Joy of Poetry Begins May 4

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

Joy of Poetry Book Club Announcement Yellow Rose

We’ll be accepting Megan Willome’s invitation to experience The Joy of Poetry with our new book club beginning May 4.

Filed Under: book club, Books, The Joy of Poetry, writer's group resources

On Being a Writer Book Club: Surround

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

On Being a Writer

We conclude our group discussion of On Being a Writer by considering the things with which a writer might surround himself to influence his writing.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Life

A More Beautiful Question: Taking the Brain Off High Alert

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

A More Beautiful Question Book Club (2)

What if we took our brains off ‘high alert’ and thought long enough to develop an original idea? Our discussion of A More Beautiful Question concludes today.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, Blog, book club, Creativity

Book Club: A More Beautiful Question

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Join us for our next book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas’ considering how asking beautiful questions like Why, What If, and How can help us move forward in our businesses and personal lives, our writing, and our creative endeavors.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Books, Creativity

The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Living Inside Your Breath

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

the faraway nearby breath

What’s it like to live in a room created with one’s own breath? Join us for a look at how we make our lives in this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Tears and the Ice Queen

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

the faraway nearby the ice queen

Through Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Ice Queen, Rebecca Solnit shares the healing power and warmth of tears. Join us for this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Bodies, Betrayal and Love

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

faraway nearby rebecca solnit book club

We’re discussing Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, this week considering how pain is a necessary means to retain a sense of one’s very self.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby Book Club: We Tell Ourselves Stories

By Will Willingham 35 Comments

the faraway nearby rebecca solnit book club

In The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit writes that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In this week’s book club, we discuss the power of story. Join us.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, The Faraway Nearby

Book Club Announcement: The Faraway Nearby (Rebecca Solnit)

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

book club solnit the faraway nearby

Join us for our next book club, discussing The Faraway Nearby. We’ll can apricots, wear shoes made of ice, follow Frankenstein’s journey, fly with the swan man, and wander the labyrinth only to reach our center and return to our beginnings.

Filed Under: book club, Books, The Faraway Nearby

Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Layoffs and Restructuring

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

poetry at work poetry of layoffs

What could be less poetic than corporate restructuring? In this week’s discussion of Glynn Young’s Poetry at Work, we consider the poetry of layoffs.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work: Bookclub

Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Beauty in the Workplace

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

poetry at work beauty in workplace

In Poetry at Work, Glynn Young asks if work can have beauty. Some work seems to be the very spot where beauty expired. And yet, it’s there, if one looks.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work: Bookclub

Book Club Announcement: Poetry at Work

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Poetry at Work book by Glynn Young

Our upcoming book club discussion of Glynn Young’s new book, Poetry at Work, comes just in time to celebrate Poetry at Work Day.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

top ten poetry posts

What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so). Featuring Claire Burge, Lakin Easterling, Daniel Sperry, Poets House and more.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry humor, poetry prompt, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Spin Creativity Book Club: Where Do You Hide?

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

creativity book club

We’re giving creativity a place to kick off its shoes in the closet this week in our discussion of “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, Creativity, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

Book Club Announcement: Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

spin chicken creativity

In our November book club, we’ll be getting into the mind of productivity expert Claire Burge with her new illustrated release, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Creativity

Tattoo and Identity: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

tattoo book club dorothy parker's elbow

This week in our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow we consider the tattoo and identity — the way a tattoo can broadcast one’s identity, and how it might seem to have the power to create it, impose it, even take it away.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Tattoos on Writers (Dorothy Parker's Elbow)

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