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Poetry Prompt: When I Am Old

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

What kind of person will I be “When I am old”? Callie Feyen writes a poem in which she relishes, for a moment, being exactly who she is.

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Poetry Prompt: If I Built A House

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

If you built a house, how big would you dream? Join author Callie Feyen as she remembers a childhood game and invites us to imagine our dream dwelling.

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Poetry Prompt: Use Your Five Senses

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How can writing a poem about the five senses improve a bad day? Author Callie Feyen shows us how, with the help of a first-grade friend.

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Children’s Book Club: “Dotty”

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

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How many imaginary friends can you count in the classroom? Find out in author Megan Willome’s new book club selection, ‘Dotty’ by Erica S. Perl.

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Poetry Prompt: A Walk in the Forest

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

This week, join author Callie Feyen and enter a place of mystery and magic in your neighborhood, then write about what you find.

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Poetry Prompt: Imagination Poems

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you dream of when you are out in the world?

Join author Callie Feyen as she walks down a one-hundred-year-old alley and dreams about what it is she might become someday.

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Halloween Poetry Prompt: Never Too Old For …

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

What is it that makes you remember gratefully, that you are always unfinished?

Join Callie Feyen as she confesses why Halloween is a favorite holiday, and also, that she hopes to never grow too old for its make believing.

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The Abounding Creativity of Middle-earth: An Appreciation of J.R.R. Tolkien

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Coastline Tolkien Middle-earth

With his stories of Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien gave us a legacy of abounding creativity and imagination, explaining how myths are made.

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Poets and Poems: Kathryn Nuernberger and “The End of Pink”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Point coneflowers The End of Pink

James Laughlin Award winner “The End of Pink” by Kathryn Nuernberger is a wild, exuberant poetry collection, sitting there at the frontier of imagination.

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Poets and Poems: Brian Felsen and “Female Figure (Possibly Venus)”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

“Female Figure (Possibly Venus)” by Brian Felsen is a collection of twenty-two poems that explores love, relationships and the artistic imagination.

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Poems by Shaun Masterton

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

It was through poet and writer Lesley Moon that I connected with Shaun Masterton. He is a Scot with two passions – poetry and American football. He publishes poems and talks about football at his blog, shaunmasterton.com. I’ve liked the poetry he publishes on his blog, and so I decided to take a look at the […]

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