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Poetry Prompt: Library of Memories

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Which books have you seemingly outgrown but still treasure? Join Callie Feyen as she writes her daughters and tells them about the stories she hopes they won’t forget.

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How To Read Poetry: Hermit Crab Essay 004

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)

How do you read poetry? “It is enough to enter,” says Todd Boss. Author Callie Feyen uses Todd’s poem to give you the easy secrets to poetry reading!

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Poetry Prompt: Notebooks Trying To Tell

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What have you been trying to tell yourself? Callie Feyen finds patterns, threads, and whispers in an old journal and “Kristin Lavransdatter.”

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Poetry Prompt: A spiral staircase, anxiety, and the sestina

By Callie Feyen 34 Comments

What can a spiral show us?

Join Callie Feyen and walk a spiral staircase with Tania Runyan, poet and author of “How to Write a Form Poem,” in order to understand the sestina.

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Poetry Prompt: Poems of Experience

By Callie Feyen 10 Comments

Let your Took side win, and follow it on an adventure.

“The Hobbit” is more than a book for children. Callie Feyen considers how to learn from Bilbo and write poems of experience.

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Poetry Prompt: ‘Twelfth Night’ and the Fool

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

What do you do when reading (or living) a difficult story? Callie Feyen suggests you consider poetry and Shakespeare’s Fool from ‘Twelfth Night.’

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Poetry Prompt: Experience a Sonnet

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen in taking a look at the mysterious and lovely world of the sonnet, and experience one for yourself using a variety of easy tools.

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The Incredible Hulk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Callie Feyen marshalls Gwendolyn Brooks, the Incredible Hulk and Red Riding Hood in this reflection on teaching, imagination, wisdom and poetry in the varied parts of ourselves.

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Poetry Prompt: Love Poems to Words

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Author Callie Feyen invites us to write a love poem to words, allowing ourselves to respond to the Call to Adventure and bring back words to share.

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Prompt: A How-To Story

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

What rituals do you practice in your writing routine? Join author Callie Feyen in following how-to poetry prompts (or journal entries, stories, or collages).

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Poetry Prompt: Mysterious Observation turned into Poetry

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What mysteries do you notice throughout your day? Join author Callie Feyen as she attempts to help a young writer turn those mysteries into a prompt for poetry.

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Poetry Prompt: What Does A Dream Look Like?

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Dreams are shape-shifters and snitches. Join Callie Feyen and explore the many forms a dream can take shape, through poetry.

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At Home With Books: A Dark and Stormy Night

By Deva Curnutte 8 Comments

A Dark and Stormy Night

A crack of thunder starts a reading journey through Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and A Wrinkle in Time. Join Deva Curnutte on a dark and stormy night at home with books.

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Poetry Prompt: The five senses reading and writing poetry

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

Instead of asking whether you’ll succeed, what if you asked yourself, “Would I like to try?” It might lead to less worry and more play. And more poetry.

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Smiles, Laughter & Joys: Reading Treasure Prompt

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Join author Callie Feyen, a bunch of pirates, and a great group of kindergarteners and first graders as they hunt for treasure found in stories. Then write your own treasure poem!

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At Home With Books: Texas Little House

By Deva Curnutte 10 Comments

At Home with Books Texas Little House snow on window

Frosty windows, a dog-eared Little House book, and houses old and new provide the backdrop for this reflection in our new At Home with Books column.

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Reader, Come Home: November’s Pages

By Megan Willome 14 Comments

Sandeep Jauhar

Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader with Megan Willome. And share your November pages for our monthy Reader, Come Home column.

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Read Like a Writer: Second Person Narrative Voice in Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric”

By Charlotte Donlon 6 Comments

2nd Person Narrative Voice Claudia Rankine

Charlotte Donlon explores use of the second person narrative voice through the work of Claudia Rankine— and helps writers discover something surprising that’s within their power to do.

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Read Like a Writer: C.E. Morgan’s Personification Technique in “All the Living”

By Charlotte Donlon 13 Comments

Read Like a Writer personification

In the latest Read Like a Writer column, Charlotte Donlon explores the use of personification technique to bring words to life.

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Read Like a Writer: Mary Oliver’s “Upstream”

By Charlotte Donlon 8 Comments

Reading Like a Writer Mary Oliver Upstream

Charlotte Donlon invites us to “read like a writer,” discovering both a rich past and an immediate present in the present tense writing of Mary Oliver’s “Upstream.”

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