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Poetry Prompt: Consider the Pumpkin Vine

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

What happens when you take sadness and joy on a walk through a pumpkin patch? Callie Feyen leads a poetry prompt using a poem by Uncle Mose.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Baby by Madison Julius Cawein

By T.S. Poetry 9 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from “Baby” by Madison Julius Cawein.

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Poetry Prompt: Wise Teachers

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Wise teachers can be found in unexpected places, like gym parking lots. Join us for a poetry prompt about the people who help us find wisdom.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ A Clock in the Square

By T.S. Poetry 7 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from The Clock in the Square by Adrienne Rich.

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil—01 What Are Poets For?

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Sunrise at the sea

In the first episode of a new Poems to Listen By audio series, Laurie Klein shares a poem from Meredith Stricker and asks, What are poets for?

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Poetry Prompt: Dor

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

The word dor invites us to embrace loneliness rather than overcome it. This week Callie Feyen has a poetry prompt about accepting our aches.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Peacock Feather

By T.S. Poetry 33 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from Effie Lee Newsome’s “Peacock Feather.”

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Poetry Prompt: Seeing Stars

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Have you ever received a gift you didn’t know you needed? Join Callie Feyen on a summer night of seeing stars and learning to let go.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ You Had Not Known

By T.S. Poetry 8 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy a new poetry prompt started with a line from L.L. Barkat’s “You Had Not Known.”

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ What We Would Give Up

By T.S. Poetry 11 Comments

the tea

In this week’s Poetry Club Tea Date, enjoy this poetry prompt based on a starter line from a Marie Howe poem.

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Poetry Prompt: Stoop Sitting

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Before summer ends, step outside for a little stoop sitting. Author Callie Feyen offers a poetry prompt about the place we call home.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Oriole

By T.S. Poetry 16 Comments

Grass bokeh poetry club

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: Include a Metaphor

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join Callie Feyen as she offers a poetry prompt about the power of metaphor. Especially when the ocean is involved.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ This Has Been a Summer

By T.S. Poetry 8 Comments

Poetry Club Tea Date

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: To the Horizon

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

What memories do you have of swimming as a child? Join Callie Feyen as thinks about her own summertime memories and of swimming to the horizon.

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The Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ Every Morning

By T.S. Poetry 21 Comments

the tea

Join us for this week’s Every Day Poems poetry club tea date! See the favorite lines shared by a reader. Catch the poem that came from it. Pen your own.

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Poetry Prompt: Swimming in Sand

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she explores a poetry prompt about swimming in sand, drawn from memories of several trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes.

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Poetry Prompt: For the Birds

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

What do you need to push away from in order to take flight? Join Callie Feyen as she considers resistance as a mighty force that’s not just for the birds.

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Poetry Prompt: Poems of Emergence

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

The 17-year cicada will emerge this summer. What else is emerging in the world? Join author Callie Feyen as she considers how to write poems of emergence.

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Poetry Prompt: Finding Poetry from Fear

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Author Callie Feyen takes a dare to write nature poetry, finding inspiration from daredevil Robert Frost.

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