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

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Wright Longfellow Brown at Sydney Opera House
There are few things we take as seriously around here as fun.

This is not to say we don’t know how to be serious, when it is time to be. Nor that we wring all the fun out of fun by being so serious about it. It is to say this: we find fun, and play, to be a way in to things (often serious things) that can be life-changing.

Poetry, of course, is one of those things. It’s what we do here, after all. And that’s why we host events like Take Your Poet to Work Day. Yesterday, folks all from all over took their favorite poets (on popsicle sticks) to work (and other places). Some were kind enough to tweet us their photos so we could get in on the fun.

I mean, so we could get in on the pun.

Take a look at what I mean:

 

Or maybe he was.

Meanwhile, Emily Dickinson sighed and wondered why people are always trying to get her out of the house on a certain Wednesday every July.

She should have followed Anna Akhmatova’s example and gone out under cover.

Shakespeare found his calling card.

Poe, who would have loved a good B horror flick, went to the studio.

I loved seeing the whole ready-for-work poets collection in full color.

Heaney was invoked for his calming effect, though some had their doubts.

Contemplative Wordsworth still looks to me like he’s feeling a bit sick to his stomach, perhaps because of all the world-turning.

Judith Wright was (inadvertently) blown away.

The poets were called upon to give us something better to think about.

(Maybe check behind the life-sized Gertrude Stein.)

And others were determined to keep those poets working.

It warmed my little adjuster heart to see the Texas Department of Insurance team celebrating with Robert Frost.

Yeats got around.

We’ve asked Blake to be wary of his surroundings while playing Pokemon Go.

Nevertheless…

Keats was not amused. (We believe that, secretly, he was. How could he not be?)

And for those who were confused, it was not Take Your Pet to Work Day. Unless your pet happens to be a poet, as some pets have been known to be.

Missed out on the day? Download our free Take Your Poet to Work Day coloring book and take a poet to work with you tomorrow.

Featured image of Sydney Opera House by Motiqua, Creative Commons license via Flickr (original image modified to add poets). Post by LW Lindquist.

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I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

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  3. Donna Falcone says

    Oh, this was so much fun to read and see! Thank you, LW! That last one is hilarious, and fortunate for those pets of owners who dropped the o 😉 hee hee

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