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By Heart: ‘The night is darkening round me’ by Emily Brontë

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

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Emily Brontë holds us Spellbound with her poem “The night is darkening round me.” Come dance in the dark with us.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Emily Brontë

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Zoom Pandemic Edition

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Zoom

When poets celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day during a pandemic, it’s likely total pandemonium. Join Lucille Clifton, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson & more in a Zoom chat.

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Take Your Poet to Work: Lucille Clifton

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Lucille Clifton, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day!

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It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day! Find all the resources you need to enjoy the company of your favorite poet at work today.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: C. D. Wright

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

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We’re getting ready to celebrate Take Your Poet to Work Day! Our 2019 poet collection kicks off with with American poet C. D. Wright.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day: How Poets Work

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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We celebrated the 6th annual Take Your Poet to Work Day this week. Check out the ways we found our poets working away the day.

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Spending Take Your Poet to Work Day In and Out of Pocket

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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We celebrated our 5th annual Take Your Poet to Work Day this week. Check out all the fun places our favorite poets hung out!

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

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

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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.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

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Just one more week until Take Your Poet to Work Day. For our final addition to our poet collection for 2016, meet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Judith Wright

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Australian poet and activist Judith Wright.

Filed Under: Australian Poets, Blog, Judith Wright, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Brontë

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Emily Brontë.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Brontë, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Seamus Heaney

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Filed Under: Blog, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Seamus Heaney, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! This week, meet English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Filed Under: Blog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Teaching Resources, love poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: William Wordsworth

By Will Willingham 19 Comments

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Take Your Poet to Work Day is coming on the third Wednesday in July. For 2016, that’s July 20! We kick off the release of this year’s poet collection with English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

Filed Under: Blog, Moon poems, Nature Poems, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, William Wordsworth

Take Your Poet to Work: Walt Whitman

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

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We round out the 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poet collection with today’s release of America’s poet, Walt Whitman.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Walt Whitman

Take Your Poet to Work: Wisława Szymborska

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

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Meet Polish poet Wisława Szymborska as we continue our preparations for celebrating Take Your Poet to Work Day on July 15.

Filed Under: Blog, Cat Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day, Wislawa Szymborska

Take Your Poet to Work: William Shakespeare

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

William Shakespeare

We kick off the release of our 2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day poets collection with the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, Shakespeare, shakespeare sonnets, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Poet Treasure Hunt in the Library (Callie’s Story)

By Callie Feyen 36 Comments

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How did you spend Take Your Poet to Work Day? We want to know. Like this, from Callie Feyen. What a marvelous, ticklish, soul-jazz way to spend the day!

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, Libraries, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work Day: Free Coloring Book

By Will Willingham 30 Comments

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We’re just days away from Take Your Poet to Work Day. Stop in and pick up a free Take Your Poet to Work coloring book to help you and your favorite poet get ready for the big day!

Filed Under: Coloring Page Poems, poetry, poetry and business, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Take Your Poet to Work: Sylvia Plath

By Will Willingham 17 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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