I realize I should have posted this much sooner than the 23rd of December so you’ll have to forgive me. Keep these gifts in mind for your poet’s birthday or if celebrating his/her unbirthday – personally I’m a fan of the unbirthday, I mean any celebration that gets its own song has to be pretty awesome, right?

So whether for Christmas or Hanukkah or birthday or unbirthday or a random Tuesday – here’s a few gifts the poet in your life is sure to love!

Poetry tights – these tights feature a poem by the Russian lyrical poem Alexander Pushkin.

A calendar capable of inspiring poetry.

For the fashionista poet, heels featuring dictionary pages:

For someone who likes big jewelry (which not everyone can pull off), a necklace proclaiming the love of poetry:

With cold weather here for many of us, every poet needs a scarf so why not one printed with some poetry?

If you know the person’s favorite poet, buy them a copy of that poet’s newest book. If you don’t know their favorite poet, buy them a copy of my book of poetry. 🙂 If you’re pressed for time, a gift card to Amazon or their local bookstore is a great gift as this allows them to purchase the book of their choosing.

Whatever you do, don’t get the poet in your life a journal or notebook. Most of us writers want (need?) to choose our own journals and choose it based on things that wouldn’t make sense to others – the way it feels in our hands, the way it makes us feel in our hearts, the way it makes us want to grab a pen and immediately begin writing. But it’s more than that, and one of my favorite poets, Megan Falley, explains it perfectly: