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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Braiding His Hair

By T.S. Poetry 10 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from “Braiding His Hair” by Alison Luterman.

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Poetry Prompt: Do Something You Love And Tell About It

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What would you do if your teacher gave you this assignment: Do something you love and then tell about it? Join author Callie Feyen as she and her daughters try to complete the task.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ A Clock in the Square

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.

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Poetry Prompt: Dor

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Peacock Feather

By T.S. Poetry 33 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from Effie Lee Newsome’s “Peacock Feather.”

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Poetry Prompt: Seeing Stars

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ You Had Not Known

By T.S. Poetry 8 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from L.L. Barkat’s “You Had Not Known.”

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ What We Would Give Up

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy this poetry prompt based on a starter line from a Marie Howe poem.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Oriole

By T.S. Poetry 16 Comments

Grass bokeh poetry club

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: Include a Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt about the power of metaphor. Especially when the ocean is involved.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ This Has Been a Summer

By T.S. Poetry 8 Comments

Poetry Club Tea Date

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: Swimming in Sand

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a poetry prompt about swimming in sand, drawn from memories of several trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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Poetry Prompt: If I Built A House

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

If you built a house, how big would you dream? Join author Callie Feyen as she remembers a childhood game and invites us to imagine our dream dwelling.

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Poetry Prompt: Use Your Five Senses

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How can writing a poem about the five senses improve a bad day? Author Callie Feyen shows us how, with the help of a first-grade friend.

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Poetry Prompt: What Silence Does

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she considers silence — what it is, what it does, and whether it’s useful. Then write a poem about it.

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Poetry Prompt: Inventory Poetry

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she takes an inventory of her kitchen and finds many prompts for poetry.

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Questions & Curiosity: Wonder Plant Prompt

By Sara Barkat 4 Comments

Dandelion in Seed

Join us this week to wonder about a common plant you may have passed by. Find your questions, then your answers, and then—your poem!

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Poetry Prompt: Question Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she contemplates whether it is asking the question, or finding the answer that makes us strong. Then get poetic with a question of your own.

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Sun and Moon Poems: Night Poetry Prompt

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she confesses her fear of teaching Romeo and Juliet, and realizes there is much more to see than what she’s afraid of.

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Poetry Prompt: Imagination Poems

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you dream of when you are out in the world?

Join author Callie Feyen as she walks down a one-hundred-year-old alley and dreams about what it is she might become someday.

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