Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Sara chose a cento as our Poetry Princess challenge. Not just a cento, but a cento collage, in which we would each choose one word from a set of lines Sara provided from poet Agha Shahid
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Happy first week of school for all your northern teachers! While visiting my older daughter in La Crosse, WI, over the summer, I
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Okay, one last (this one a rare unfiltered one) photo from Cyprus. On our first full day there, Maddie took us to Cavo
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Here’s another pic from our trip to Cyprus. Larnaca has a couple of salt lakes. They’re near the coast, and from the airplane,
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Another pic from our trip to Cyprus. This is from some kind of sculpture or monument, and I think it was in Nicosia,
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. This is another pic from our Cyprus trip. Here’s a fountain by the ocean in Larnaca, in the touristy part of town. This
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) You know, we Poetry Princesses organized our monthly challenges for this year at the end of 2017. And a sestina in July sounded just peachy. Really. Then…real life. My husband and I moved on Monday, and July was
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Here’s another photo from our trip to Cyprus. This lovely gent lives at the same camel park as the camel I shared a
Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell have done it again, creating another poetry anthology perfect for educators to use to grow readers who are excited about poetry. Great Morning! (Pomelo Books, 2018; hear a sample read here) is a wonderful selection
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Before today’s challenge, I want to share some lovely news from Elaine Magliaro (author of the glorious picture book Things to Do) shared
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