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Poetry at Work: Dulce De Leche

By Monica Silva 8 Comments

When considering how to start a catered meal, it’s best to start with dessert, and seek the poetic details in the sweetness.

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Poetry at Work: A Poet Jump Starts a Company

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

A poet was asked to create a celebration for a company that was to be spun off as a separate organization.

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Poetry at Work: Workplace Creativity

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poetry can be used for creativity at work in three ways: to restore, to clarify, to organize.

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Poetry at Work: Television Becomes Poetry Becomes Speech

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

A curious combination of television and poetry helped change an industry. I was having trouble finishing a speech. And it wasn’t just any speech but a rather significant departure for the company. It would have one of two outcomes. Either the company executive giving it would “elect to pursue career opportunities elsewhere” (companies rarely “fire” […]

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 2 Comments

Poetry for doctors, music for Yeats, portraits from shredded letters for your love. Seth Haines has this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: How to Recognize a Poet at Work

By Glynn Young 21 Comments

A secretary at work once stopped me outside my office. “People are worried about you, ” she said. “Me?” I asked. “Why?” “You’re walking the hallways, mumbling to yourself. People are noticing.” I stared for a moment, and then I understood. “I’m writing a speech, ” I said. “It’s a restless activity for me. I […]

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Poetry at Work: Beauty in the Workplace

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Few associate our work with beauty. It’s one of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, we fail to see poetry at work. No beauty, no poetry.

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Poetry at Work: The Poetry of the Speech

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Poetry has considerable practical value for the business of speechwriting: using language differently, the power of poetic techniques, thinking differently.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

The hair-splitting debate over split infinitives, 10x vs 10% better, Monopoly iron says farewell. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: Dana Gioia on Poetry in Business

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

The conventional American wisdom is that poets “must be people out of the ordinary; they must be strong, even eccentric individuals.” In other words, Walt Whitman fits our preconceived notions; Wallace Stevens, corporate lawyer, does not.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

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The many hats of Dr. Seuss, literary works in your DNA, taking your love to San Antonio. Seth Haines has another week of poetry highlights in our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Stunning art from old books, Poe vs. the Ravens, poetry in outer space, and why technology is in need of a good metaphor. This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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Poetry at Work: The Best Job You Ever Had

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

It was only when I started writing poems that I began to understand that good and bad jobs, and best and worst jobs, often walk hand in hand.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

An inaugural poetry primer, Bill Murray reading Dickinson poems to construction workers, and free books for the taking in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 7 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art Have you ever been perusing Twitter and decided that you wanted to know the story behind the tweet? (The 140-character limitation is a bit of a story killer. Right?) If so, then check out this article about conceptual artists Nate Larson and […]

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Poetry at Work: Poetry at Work Day

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Fortune 500 professional Glynn Young pinpoints almost the exact time he became aware that poetry inhabited his work. He was a corporate speechwriter…

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Poetry at Work Day Survival Kit

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

poetry at work day survival kit

Want to celebrate Poetry at Work Day in your workplace? We’ve gathered a great collection of resources in our Poetry at Work Day Survival Kit to get you started.

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Brooklyn Subway: The Poetry of Crossword Puzzles

By Elizabeth Marshall 9 Comments

We dream here at Tweetspeak of poetry in the subways. Elizabeth Marshall and friends, via the Art Bus Project, did just that.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The right way to teach writing, according to Pooh. A poster you have to soil your hands to appreciate. Alabama’s new poet laureate on Damned Ugly Children. The poetic losses of 2012. Will Willingham has This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 6 Comments

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Seth Haines. 1 Art There is a split of authority in my house. I tend to identify with the poetry of William Carlos Williams—so much depends upon that red wheelbarrow. I imagine the objects of Williams’ poetry, perhaps attaching a bit of unwarranted sentimentality or nostalgia […]

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