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Take Your Poet to Work: The Haiku Masters
Could your workplace use a little more poetry? Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring the world’s most beloved poets along with you to work? Imagine if one of the haiku masters joined you for the day....
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Take Your Poet to Work: T.S. Eliot
We believe there is poetry in the workplace; it’s just a matter of tuning your ear to it. We’re also fans of bringing poetry to the workplace. Or better yet, bringing poets to the workplace. Wouldn’t...
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Now Look Who’s Writing Poetry: Cats
It’s rather startling: a recurring line in poetry that reads “I could pee on that.” Charles Bukowski, perhaps? Sandra Bernhard waxing softly poetic? Nope. A cat. Her new sweater doesn’t smell of me I...
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Top 10 Funny Poems
What makes for funny poems? Maybe the same things that make for any funny writing! Consider these qualities from How to Write Funny… -juxtaposition -perspective -surprise -cumulative effect (a build...
View ArticleCat Poetry: The Cat’s Meow Playlist & Prompt
Cat poetry has been around for a long time. And why not? Cats are just so intriguing, even if you prefer not to have one sharing a house with you. Having slept, the cat gets up, yawns, goes out to make...
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Cat Poetry: Funny Poems by Cats
Cat poems are sometimes funny poems. Especially if the cat is the one who wrote them! I Could Pee on This Her new sweater doesn’t smell of me I could pee on that She’s gone out for the day and left her...
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This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The best in poetry (and poetic things) 1 Art Here’s a guy who makes me never want to put a toothpick in my mouth again. After seeing this sprawling (and exquisite) sculpture of San Francisco built...
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Cat Poetry: Grumpy Cat Poems
Cat poems are sometimes grumpy cat poems. (We are waiting, actually, for the official Grumpy Cat to set up his sidewalk poem-writing stand.) This is My Chair This is my chair This is my couch That is...
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Many fine cat poems focus on the easily-discernable. The ways of cats. Their postures and attitudes. But cats have a long history that can be plumbed and poeticized—from Egypt to China, Greece to...
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Take Your Poet to Work: Wisława Szymborska
It’s one thing to start every day with a poem. But another altogether to start your day with a poet. One of our favorite days of the year is fast approaching, when we encourage people around the world...
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Top 10 Poetic Calvin & Hobbes Quotes
It is no secret that the beloved characters in Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin & Hobbes shed an amusing (and often poignant) light on the creative imagination of a child. But Watterson also...
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Poe, Rilke, and Our Black Cat
Think Halloween, and what comes to mind (after trick-or-treat candy) are the big three icons of witches, pumpkins, and black cats. Mummies, skeletons, and zombies are more Johnny-come-latelys in the...
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Children’s Book Club: ‘The Cat Who Saved Books’
“Books Have Souls” The cat says so. Therefore it must be true. The author of The Cat Who Saved Books, Sosuke Natsukawa, is a doctor in Nagano, Japan, as well as a best-selling author. In choosing a...
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