What feels like writer’s block might just be giving up too soon. Charity Singleton Craig challenges writers to use persistence toward better creativity.
2016 Poetry at Work Day Poster
As we prepare for this year’s Poetry at Work Day, we are delighted to offer you our new Poetry at Work Day poster for 2016.
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
Did Allen Ginsberg howl or throw the first pitch. Push yourself or forgive yourself? Cognitive bias or creativity boost? It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
The Writing Life: What Hemingway Can Teach You About Professional Loneliness
Working from home has its perks, but can also have its downside, like professional loneliness. Charity Singleton Craig—and Hemingway—have thoughts on that.
Creativity Inside the Box: The Freedom of Constraint
Would imposing constraints help or hinder your creativity? Charity Singleton Craig explores both sides of working inside and thinking outside the box.
WordSurge—A Word-Discovery Tool for Tomorrow
Maureen Doallas interviews founder Jordan Ackerman about the comprehensive and engaging word-discovery tool found in WordSurge®.
A More Beautiful Question: Taking the Brain Off High Alert
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.
The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Writing conferences pert’near South Dakota, making carrots into clarinets, art you can’t see unless it’s raining. It has to be our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
A More Beautiful Question: Improving the Questions We Ask
In this week’s book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question, ‘ we consider how to improve our questions before we jump to answer them.
A More Beautiful Question: What If You Sleep On It? (Book Club)
Think you can do your work in your sleep? Warren Berger suggests that we might do our best creative thinking when we’re asleep. Join us for our A More Beautiful Question book club discussion.
A More Beautiful Question: Thinking in Questions (Book Club)
What if we didn’t stop asking questions when we got to a certain age? Join us in our first installment of the A More Beautiful Question book club.
The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks
Writing your way to a better life, Langston doodles, literary restaurant reviews and becoming mermaids. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Artist Date: A February March
Want to open up your creativity? Maybe you need an Artist’s Date. Bundle up and take a winter’s walk on the ice with LW Lindquist.
Become a Better Writer: I Am Not a Robot
In this look at automation in creative work, Charity Singleton Craig ponders how being like a robot can help you become a better writer, and whether she should plan a career shift toward being personal assistant to a robot.
The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks
Your novel’s optimum length is shorter than a bridge. A literary time capsule. Team building for the self-employed. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks
Trouble in the Little Free Libraries, the shocking truth about boredom, words to make your poetry legit, Neruda’s new old poems, and why Tim Tebow sells more books than Billy Collins. It’s the best in poetry (and poetic things in our latest Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Top 10 Tips for a Summer Staycation
You deserve a vacation. And we say you should give yourself one. Only don’t leave home. Try these ten tips for a great summer staycation.
Image-ine Poetry: “Girl in Street” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave
Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, join Maureen Doallas as she responds to Lisa Hess Hesselgrave’s “Girl in Street.”
Image-ine Poetry: “Plywood Archer #1” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave
Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, join Maureen Doallas and Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, as they aim high with their art.
How to Become a Better Writer: Blue Spring Florida Artist Date
I arrive at the Blue Spring boil, where manatees dive deep, and flirt, and play, reminding me how to become a better writer.