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Poetry Prompt: Unsaid Things

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Author Callie Feyen considers all the things unsaid in her weekly poetry prompt—things we can re-see with a little rearranging and remembering.

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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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Poetry Prompt: Could Be Poems

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Have you ever experienced a moment and said to someone, “That’s a poem?” Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Join Callie Feyen as she explores the question.

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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: Focus on End Words

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

This week author Callie Feyen reads the picture book ‘David Gets In Trouble’ and invites us to focus on end words. Do they make a mini-poem?

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Poetry Prompt: Like a Love Song

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

There are many ways to express love (some are quite silly). Take a drive with author Callie Feyen and her teenage daughter and listen to some love songs.

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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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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: What Kind of Quiet?

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How many kinds of quiet do you find (and feel) in your day? Join author Callie Feyen as she explores the many kinds of quiet that seep through our days.

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Writing Prompt: December

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

December can be a dark, lonely month. Join author Callie Feyen as she finds beauty in the last month of the year and prompts us to write along.

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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: 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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Songwriting and Writing: “Adorning the Dark” by Andrew Peterson

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

“Adorning the Dark” by writer and songwriter Andrew Peterson speaks to the mystery at the center of writing, creativity, and inspiration.

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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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Poet Laura: Allow Me to Introduce and Explain Myself

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Poet Laura Tania Runyan introduces herself

Our inaugural Poet Laura, Tania Runyan, reflects on the business of the season, the perfect time to realize that one doesn’t have time *not* to write.

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Poetry Prompt: The Female Monster

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she takes a look at vampires and the other monsters, including the dreaded lamia. And join us for a poetry prompt — if you dare.

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Poetry Prompt: On Mystery

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Mystery surprises us, like an unexpected giraffe. Join author Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt on mystery. And the need for exclamation points.

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Poetry Prompt: Wasps as Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

What metaphors can you find in your life to explore in your writing? Join author Callie Feyen as she considers a tree outside her home, and also, wasps.

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The Writing Life: Somehow Beginnings

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Callie Feyen reflects on coming to the place in our writing life where we are both ready and willing and can “somehow begin.”

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Where Foreshadowing and Symbolism Meet: Adumbration

By Charity Singleton Craig 10 Comments

Train tracks adumbration

Create layers and depth in your writing by trying the technique of adumbration, which occurs at the intersection of foreshadowing and symbolism. Charity Singleton Craig explains how.

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