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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

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Shakespeare in its original English. Or Shakespeare rewritten. Infographics, code poetry, bad real estate photos and artful cookies. Find all this and more in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Get Your Official Poetry at Work Day Poster!

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

Poetry at Work Day Poster

Poetry at Work Day is coming Tues., January 14, 2014. Post the news at your workplace, library, or school or just own the poster for posterity. 1st 500 Free!

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Infographic: Poetry at Work Day 2017

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

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Poetry at Work Day is coming January 14, 2014. To launch this year’s celebration, we’re releasing our brand new 2014 Poetry at Work Day infographic.

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Poetry at Work: Casey at the Bat

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

The 1888 popular poem “Casey at the Bat” has much to teach us about the over-confidence and pride that leads to failure at work.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

top ten poetry picks

Street photography, Jane Austen summer camp, what poetry, science and Twinkies have in common. It’s this week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks: The Twinkie Edition.

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Serious Fun: How We Spent Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

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From Neruda driving the morning commute to T.S. Eliot settling down for a good night’s sleep, we celebrated Take Your Poet to Work Day around the world. Enjoy a recap of our favorite images and tweets.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is July 19, 2017 (Infographic)

By Will Willingham 21 Comments

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Wednesday, July 17, is Take Your Poet to Work Day. Our infographic has 6 easy ways you can celebrate the day.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Edgar Allan Poe

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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Ever wish you could take your favorite poet to work? Now you can. Edgar Allan Poe joins our featured poets for Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 17.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Rumi

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work - Rumi

Ever wish you could take your favorite poet along with you to work? You know, have Rumi help you mix the chemicals for that lab experiment you’re working on. Or serve up a poet on a stick along with the sandwiches to your lunch customers. With Take Your Poet to Work Day just around the corner, now you can.

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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.

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Take Your Poet to Work: T.S. Eliot

By Will Willingham 43 Comments

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Take your favorite poet with you to work for Take Your Poet to Work Day coming up July 17. This week we’re featuring poet T.S. Eliot.

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Take Your Poet to Work: The Haiku Masters

By Will Willingham 29 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Haiku Masters Cover

Our first poet collection releases for Take Your Poet to Work Day: The Haiku Masters (Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa)

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Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Interview

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

I was part of an interview team, talking individually with four candidates for a communication research job. Human Resources had provided us with a set of “behavioral interview” questions, which meant we would be asking things like “What’s the biggest failure you’ve ever experienced?” and “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” We followed […]

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Celebrities set in Renaissance masterpieces, poetry as therapy, poetic computation, trading words for images. It’s a new week of our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks is a great collection of the best in poetry and poetic things from around the web.

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Poetry at Work: The Airport Security Check-In

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

A random selection of people in an airport security line becomes the occasion for two strangers to create a poem of chance, understanding, and meaning.

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Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Commute

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

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A daily commute to work is filled with the poetry of Dickinson, Eliot, Homer, the Romantics, and the 18th century Age of Reason, in one short six-mile ride.

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Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Organization Chart

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

I’m likely to date myself here, but when I first worked for a large organization, one of the most important documents one could be given was the organization chart. The chart made sense of the organization, in this case a large corporation. It demonstrated order, logic, rationality, and control. It provided a compass or map, […]

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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85 poets, 85 Pulitzer works, learning to read at 85. It’s a brand new week of great poetry links in Our Top (85 minus 75) Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Crisis

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Poetry at work? Yes, look for it especially in a crisis. Finding the poetry will suggest the path forward.

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