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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 06—Buddy Story

By Laurie Klein 5 Comments

Poems to Listen By Trees and Waterfall

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How We Spent Our Take Your Poet to Work Day

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Day Bird Bath

The results of a 6-year double-blind, super-sticky study are in: from Hoagland and Oliver to Shakespeare and Poe, poets are bringing happiness to the workplace.

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Take Your Poet to Work Day!

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2019 Take Your Poet to Work Day Cover

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: Tony Hoagland

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

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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National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and a Stolen Earth + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

Tony Hoagland Real Estate

Tony Hoagland writes words he cannot find, and plays to our baser instincts to call us to greater things in search of a stolen earth.

Filed Under: Blog, Ecopoetry, National Poetry Month, Patron Only, Tony Hoagland

National Poetry Month: Tony Hoagland and the Body + Group Poetry Dare

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

National Poetry Month Tony Hoagland golden boat

Poems, perhaps more especially now the ones that talk about bodies, have the means to calm and they make me grateful, like Hoagland, “for the lives I / never have to live again.”

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National Poetry Month: Writing Down the Words from Tony Hoagland + Group Dare

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Tony Hoagland poetry broken glass

This National Poetry Month, we invite you to a group Poetry Dare, reading a single poet all month long and writing poems longhand or creating a collage inspired by the poems. LW Willingham leads the way, with Tony Hoagland.

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Top 10 Writing Quotes to Get You Started in 2016

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top 10 Writing Quotes

Whether you included your writing goals in your 2016 resolutions, this collection of 10 great writing quotes might give you the inspiration you need to get started.

Filed Under: Blog, Quotes, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Top 10 Best Rose Poems

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

top 10 rose poems

Robbie Burns didn’t write the first rose poem. But he may have written one of the best rose poems. Enjoy this fresh bouquet of 12—minus two!

Filed Under: Blog, Flower Poems, Red Poems, Rose Poems

The Tattoo’s Dark Side: Dorothy Parker’s Elbow Book Club

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

tattoos dark side

We wrap up our discussion of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos considering the tattoo’s dark side with Kafka and Tony Hoagland.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Tattoo Poems, Tattoos, Tattoos on Writers (Dorothy Parker's Elbow)

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

top ten poetry picks

The Poetry Industry’s World Domination Tour: from finding poetry’s public to Shakespeare’s entrepreneurial bent. It’s This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

An inaugural poetry primer, Bill Murray reading Dickinson poems to construction workers, and free books for the taking in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Seth Haines 9 Comments

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Picasso scratch-off, Hurricane Sandy, and the mother of all field trips — Seth Haines has all this and more in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

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