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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Tania Runyan

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Our 2020 Take Your Poet to Work Day ready-for-work poet collection features our first living poet, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Tania Runyan.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Lucille Clifton

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Jorge Luis Borges

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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

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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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Poetry at Work Day Infographic

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Share our 2018 Poetry at Work Day Infographic with your coworkers and get ready to celebrate on January 9. They’ll thank you come performance review time.

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2018 Poetry at Work Day Poster

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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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Share the Fun of Take Your Poet to Work Day with our New Poster

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Take Your Poet to Work Day featured

It’s almost Take Your Poet to Work Day! Share the fun of this annual celebration in your workplace with our new printable poster.

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Fill in the Blank Verse for Poetry at Work Day

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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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Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poets Just Want to Have Pun

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Wright Longfellow Brown at Sydney Opera House

We celebrated the fourth annual Take Your Poet to Work Day yesterday and discovered that, in many cases, our Poets Just Want to Have Pun.

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2016 Poetry at Work Day Poster

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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.

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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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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

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Emily Dickinson - Sylvia Plath - WB Yeats with coffee

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day. Check out coffee shop GIF winner and learn 3 great ways to celebrate with your poet at work today.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

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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.

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Top Ten Favorites from Poetry at Work Day 2015

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top ten poetry at work

As our third annual celebration of Poetry at Work Day concludes, we give you our top ten highlights, 47 tweets at a time.

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Get Your Free Official 2015 Poetry at Work Day Poster

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This year’s official Poetry at Work Day poster, suitable for hanging in your workplace (or framing in your kitchen, which may even be your workplace), is now available.

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

Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. Meet our final poet in this year’s collection, Sylvia Plath.

Filed Under: Baby Poems, love poems, poetry, poetry and business, Sylvia Plath, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Villanelles

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