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A Ritual to Read to Each Other: ‘A River Runs Through It’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Norman Maclean

What makes a story true? We head west for our A Ritual to Read column and enter the river of mystery that is ‘A River Runs Through It.’

Filed Under: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Fiction

Writer Friends: The Lunchtime Literary Discussion Society

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

Threesome lampost Houston

Friendship forms among coworkers after the perfunctory question ‘How are you?’ gets an unexpected answer.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Activities and Prompts, Friendship Project, Patron Only, writer's group resources, Writing Life, writing prompt, writing prompts

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

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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Ever wonder what we’re reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Browse our Top Ten Posts from the last month (or so) and find out.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Top 8 “Poetry at Work” Sightings in New York City

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Poetry at Work book by Glynn Young

Where have you seen poetry at work? Thanks to Nancy Franson and Michelle Ortega, we spotted Glynn Young’s “Poetry at Work” around New York City.

Filed Under: Books, Libraries, New York Literary, poetry, Poetry at Work

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

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

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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

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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

Poetry at Work, The Book: Introduction Excerpt

By L.L. Barkat 9 Comments

Poetry at Work Snow Branch

Poetry at Work, the book, provides practical tools for altering work cultures and our approaches to everything from the business meeting to the business crisis.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, poetry and business, Poetry at Work

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

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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Did Jane Austen play video games? Did William Carlos Williams really eat the plums? Did Ben Franklin think flying was useful? It’s another week of the best in poetry and poetic things: Our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Top 10 Poetic Picks

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Random acts of poetry, communing with nature is not an excuse to get out of the office, going to class with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It’s all in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks with Seth Haines.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

At the Oasis, The Camel on Caravan

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

So the three of us tweeted away (49 tweets in all). Then I was given the privilege of crafting our separate poems into one big poem, and we decided to name it in honor of our absent friend.

Filed Under: Camel Poems, Dream Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

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