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Take Your Poet to Work Day

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Why should kids have all the fun? You’ve taken your daughter or son to work (or maybe you’ve taken someone else’s child to work). Your poet wants to go now too.

When Is Take Your Poet to Work Day?

Take Your Poet to Work Day is always celebrated on the 3rd Wednesday in July. In 2025, that will be July 16!

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And remember, if you aren’t at work on Take Your Poet to Work Day, you can always take your poet to the beach.

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2020 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Tania Runyan
Countee Cullen
Lucille Clifton

2019 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

W.S. Merwin - Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Mary Oliver — Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Tony Hoagland — Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Take Your Poet to Work C.D. Wright 2

2018 Take Your Poet to School Poets

Take Your Poet to School Shel Silverstein Printable
Take Your Poet to School Printable Mother Goose
Take Your Poet to School Ogden Nash Printable Preview
Robert Louis Stevenson Printable

2018 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Rosario Castellanos - Take Your Poet to Work Printable
Take Your Poet to Work Printable Juana Ines de la Cruz
Take Your Poet to Work Printable Rosalia de Castro
Jorge Luis Borges Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable

2016 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Judith Wright
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Emily Brontë

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Seamus Heaney
Take Your Poet to Work Day - Printable Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable William Wordsworth

2015 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Take Your Poet to Work Day Walt Whitman
Take Your Poet to Work Day Wisława Szymborska
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Anna Akhmatova

Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Robert Frost
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Maya Angelou
Take Your Poet to Work Day 2015 Poets

2014 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Sylvia Plath Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable
Sylvia Plath
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Take Your Poet to Work Day - WB Yeats
W. B. Yeats

John Keats Take Your Poet to Work
John Keats
Take Your Poet to Work Day Printable - Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Langston Hughes Take Your Poet to Work printable
Langston Hughes

2013 Take Your Poet to Work Day Poets

Emily Dickinson
Haiku Masters
Pablo Neruda

Take Your Poet to Work - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Rumi
Take Your Poet to Work - T S Eliot
T. S. Eliot

Take your poet to work - Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale

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