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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

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How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Free Coloring Book

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

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We’re just days away from Take Your Poet to Work Day. Stop in and pick up a free Take Your Poet to Work coloring book to help you and your favorite poet get ready for the big day!

Filed Under: Coloring Page Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is Coming

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

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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

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks + Emily

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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Artful chocolate, famous punk authors, poetry in the supermarket, and how to not write a novel. It’s the best in poetry: our monthly Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Stories, Emily Dickinson, Libraries, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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The worst state to borrow books for fictional children, what memoir is not, revising everything from poetry to the NSA. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry, Poetry at Work, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Night Poetry: Emily Dickinson’s Symbol Challenge

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

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Can night poetry have sunshine? If you’re Emily Dickinson, you might find a way to mix dark and light by speaking symbolically.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Poems, Night Poems, poetry teaching resources, Short Poems, Themed Writing Projects, Villanelles, writing prompts

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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San Francisco in toothpicks, getting Beowulf wrong, everything Emily Dickinson ever wrote on. It’s this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Blog, Books, Cat Poems, Emily Dickinson, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Emily Dickinson’s pickup lines, op-ed poetry, why you should draw with your 4-year-old. It’s a brand new week of our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Top Ten Poetic Tweets

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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For the love of bad books, how Emily Dickinson’s poetry reads like a science book, keeping books safe from bananas. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 32 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Emily Dickinson cover

Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Poetry: Mirroring the Unseen

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 3 Comments

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Both poems and mirrors “Tell all the Truth, ” as Emily Dickinson insisted, but they “tell it slant.” Angela Alaimo O’Donnell talks poetry and mirrors.

Filed Under: Mirror Poems, poetry

This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

The apostrophe is dangerous. A book is a startup. Dorothy Parker is not running her Facebook account. It’s the best in poetry and poetic things.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Journey into Poetry: Amber Haines

By Amber Haines 18 Comments

Poetry acknowledged invisible things, the things that haunt us. Amber Haines shares her journey into poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, journey into poetry, poetry

This Year’s Top 10 Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

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The editors have culled our very favorite links from our weekly Top 10 Poetic Picks from 2012.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Mass at Notre-Dame (or, How to Write a Found Poem)

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 25 Comments

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Using a paragraph of prose from Kristin LeMay’s “I Told My Soul To Sing, ” Kimberlee Conway Ireton crafts — and explains how to write — a found poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Found Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources

A Winner for the Emily Dickinson Giveaway

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Glynn Young announces a winner for the free copy of Kristin LeMay’s “I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson.”

Filed Under: article, book reviews

Finding God with Emily Dickinson (and a Giveaway)

By Glynn Young 35 Comments

In “I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson, ” Kristin LeMay uses 30 poems to navigate the rocks of belief, prayer, and mortality. LeMay’s Dickinson is remarkably human. Glynn Young reviews this new volume and has a giveaway.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Emily Dickinson, poetry

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Repurposing books into purses, the presidents’ favorite poetry, and why you need a contrarian in your life. Will Willingham has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Make Time for Wine and Poetry

By Angela Alaimo O'Donnell 6 Comments

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In the hands of the poets, wine is poetry and poetry is wine. Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, together with wine and poetry, invites you to the Feast of Life.

Filed Under: Blog, love poetry, poetry

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