Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Happy Thursday, and if you’re visiting as a result of Mary Lee Hahn’s kind shoutout at nErDcamp MI, welcome! We love having new people drop by and give this a try–or use it with their students, even if
Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Surprising nature images are my favorite poetry prompt, but?everyday stuff works, too! Here’s?our upstairs hall light.?The image makes me think of: 1)?an invisible creature watching (one eye is the light; the other eye is the reflection of the
Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! OK, I’m aware I have done too many tree pictures for 15 Words or Less, and I’ve sworn off them. But…but I had to share this! I went for a walk Sunday morning with
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I had such a great time at the Bemidji Library Book Festival! I led a two-hour nature-poetry writing workshop and did a storytime presentation. At the nature-poetry session, we took yarn circles and spread them
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Look at what Patty,?my sister visiting from Fla., spotted as we walked Captain Jack (who totally ignored it). Here’s what this turtle makes me think of: 1)?moving boxes (which they don’t have to go get
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I took this picture at drum corps rehearsal last week. The little medians inside a parking lot had this tall grass that made it look like a miniature meadow! 1)?ocean waves (of course) 2)?tiny snow-covered
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here are some Velcro?balls we’re throwing at targets all this week at a Young Authors Conference. I’m sharing the poetry activity here next week, so if you’re curious, stay tuned. Meanwhile, here are three things
I had a lovely surprise when the presenters at an IRA session performed one of my poems! The session was The Power of Poetry to Provide Teachable Moments, and the presenters had no idea I was in the audience (until my friend Janet Fagal told them afterward). Here they are:
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I just realized I still had this?pic from Vegas. It is just a little thingamajig that was on the floor of the High Roller observation wheel we rode in. I was intrigued by it. Here
Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! One last pic from Vegas! Here are?3 things this photo makes me think of: 1)?the evil trees in various tales, like Wizard of Oz 2)?bonsai trees 3) blown glass–I love individual pieces, but when I
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