Take Your Poet to Work Day!

I live in one of those subdivisions that holds special events throughout the year, like tree lightings around the holidays and ladybug releases around the time the local ladybug population gets to feeling a little too pent up. They also have an annual Popsicle Parade around the 4th of July. I’m in a suburb of Dallas, a city second only to Phoenix when it comes to heating up, so the idea of a bunch of kids with popsicles on a closed street in July is the kind of sticky event that would surely keep me indoors and away from my windows. But I did, nonetheless, consider stopping by the venue later to gather up the leftover popsicle sticks. Because, yes, it’s that time of year again.

Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day, one of the happiest days of the year, when we can face demanding customers, teeming workloads, malfunctioning computers and water cooler gossips with our favorite poets in tow. Or in pocket. Or in happy little fist. It’s the one day out of the year that a person simply cannot have enough popsicle sticks.

However you choose to Take Your Poet to Work, be sure to check out our collection of resources, including our brand new cut ‘n color poets for 2019, four recently lost American national treasures: Tony Hoagland, C.D. Wright, Mary Oliver and W.S. Merwin.

Get the Free Coloring Book

Find your poet in our Take Your Poet to Work Coloring Book, school poets and Spanish language poets.

The Full Educational Collection

Browse our full collection of educational printables with your favorite poets, ready (and safe) for work.

Take Your Poet to Work Day Poster

Share our Take Your Poet to Work Day Poster wherever you find yourself today.

Participate and Share

Post a photo of your poet at work on Twitter or Instagram. Tag us at @tspoetry and use the hashtag #poettowork, and we might feature you.

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Will Willingham

Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry

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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