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Summer Break & Take Your Poet to Work Day

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Summer Break Rejuvenate Daisy

The Tweetspeak team invites you to join us in taking a summer break with all the Take Your Poet to Work Day poets for inspirational company.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Lucille Clifton

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Lucille Clifton Take Your Poet to Work Day Cover

We kick off the 2020 Take Your Poet to Work celebration with beloved poet Lucille Clifton.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Lucille Clifton, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

How We Spent Our Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Bird Bath

The results of a 6-year double-blind, super-sticky study are in: from Hoagland and Oliver to Shakespeare and Poe, poets are bringing happiness to the workplace.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day!

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2019 Take Your Poet to Work Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Find all the resources you need to enjoy the company of your favorite poet at work today.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: W. S. Merwin

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Take Your Poet to Work W. S. Merwin

We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like W. S. Merwin.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Mary Oliver

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mary Oliver Take Your Poet to Work Day

We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like Mary Oliver.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tony Hoagland

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

Tony Hoagland Take Your Poet to Work Cover

We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection features recently lost American national treasures like Tony Hoagland.

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Another Poetry at Work Day is in the Books

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

Poetry at Work Day snow and clouds

Another Poetry at Work Day is in the books. Come see how we celebrated all around the world.

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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

All the Poets

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Choose a poet, color and cut out and glue it to a Popsicle stick to delight your coworkers with the best kind of poetry at work.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Jorge Luis Borges

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Jorge Luis Borges Take Your Poet to Work Day cover

We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2018 poet collection starts with Argentine author and poet Jorge Luis Borges.

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How We Spent Our Poetry at Work Day

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Sunset Brooklyn Bridge Poetryat Work Day

We celebrated Poetry at Work this week in libraries, theatres, coffee shops, and government offices. We celebrated on ships, in the street, and probably even on the moon.

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2018 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poetry at Work Day Poster 2018

Poetry at Work Day is soon approaching. Get ready to celebrate poetry in your workplace and download our new free Poetry at Work Day poster.

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Spending Take Your Poet to Work Day In and Out of Pocket

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Crayons for Take Your Poet to Work Day

We celebrated our 5th annual Take Your Poet to Work Day this week. Check out all the fun places our favorite poets hung out!

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Fill in the Blank Verse for Poetry at Work Day

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Poetry at Work Day wrapup - blue classic hood ornament

2017’s Poetry at Work Day left a few blanks to fill in, but also offered asteroid-mission limericks and a neurological rage against the dying of the light.

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Poetry at Work Day: Math, Science, the Moon (well, Asteroids)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

Poetry at Work Day 2016

It seems as though the whole universe participated in this year’s Poetry at Work Day celebration. Here are our highlights of the day.

Filed Under: Math-Science-Technology, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day

2016 Poetry at Work Day Poster

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Poetry at Work Day poster without ID jpeg

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.

Filed Under: poetry and business, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day

Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes—The Whopper Edition

By L.L. Barkat 11 Comments

Top 10 Found Poem Lines from Forbes

Can you put a little poetry into the NASDAQ? Give it a try with a found poem line or poem starter from an issue of Forbes.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Who Didn’t Want to Be at Work

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman

If there was a common theme for our poets in this year’s Take Your Poet to Work Day celebration, it was that they didn’t want to be at work.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Walt Whitman cover

We round out the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poet collection with today’s release of America’s poet, Walt Whitman.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Walt Whitman

Take Your Poet to Work: Anna Akhmatova

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

Anna Akhmatova Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming July 15. This week, we add Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova to our collection.

Filed Under: Anna Akhmatova, Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

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