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Chinese Lanterns: Art by Day, Magic by Night

By Sandra Heska King 18 Comments

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Stumbling onto a colorful Chinese lantern festival while out on a bike ride may hold a key to answer Mary Oliver’s question about your one wild and precious life.

Filed Under: Blog, Regional Tour

Committing Prufrock: 10 Reasons to Say Yes to Memorizing Poetry

By Sandra Heska King 20 Comments

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Why would someone take a dare to commit The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock to memory? Sandra Heska King has 10 great reasons to say yes to a poetry dare.

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Committing Prufrock: 6 Great Ways to Memorize a Poem

By Sandra Heska King 30 Comments

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Sandra Heska King continues her poetry dare, memorizing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Today, she shares her tips for memorizing a poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: Dreaming with Darwish (Part 3)

By Sandra Heska King 11 Comments

Poetry Dare Dreaming with Darwish Part 3

Sandra Heska King concludes her “Dreaming with Darwish” poetry dare, reflecting on the ways the dreams, and poems, will stay with her.

Filed Under: Mahmoud Darwish, poetry, Poetry Dare

Mahmoud Darwish and the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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We’ve challenged Sandra Heska King to a brand new adventure, the Follow Your Dream Poetry Dare with the dream-like poetry of Mahmoud Darwish at the center. Come along and follow your dream? We dare you.

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Poetry Dare: What Tangled Webs T. S. Eliot Weaves

By Sandra Heska King 33 Comments

t s eliot poetry dare

Sandra Heska King’s poetry dare continues, while she suspends herself in the web woven by T. S. Eliot’s marvelous collection of words.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare, T.S. Eliot

Poetry Dare: Do I Dare to Do a Dare with T.S. Eliot?

By Sandra Heska King 54 Comments

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Would you read T.S. Eliot every day for 30 days? Sandra Heska King couldn’t resist a double-dog Poetry Dare.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Poetry Dare

Top 10 Quotes from T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

love song of j alfred prufrock by t.s. eliot

What better place to start reading T. S. Eliot than “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? To break it down, we start with 10 great quotes plus the whole poem.

Filed Under: Blog, love poems, poetry, Poetry Dare, Quotes, T.S. Eliot

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