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Poetry at Work: Baking Bread

By Will Willingham 22 Comments

poetry at work baking bread

Find poetry at work in the baking of bread: it’s swimming in the yeast, sticking to the bowl, rising in the pan.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spin Creativity Book Club: Creativity Needs Ritual

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

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Do you have creativity rituals? What rituals sparked your creativity as a child? How does ritual foster creativity? Discuss “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree” by Claire Burge with us in our book club.

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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.”

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