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The World’s Last Magic Bean #PoetryFriday

June 4, 2020 By Laura

Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m sharing another poem readaloud from one of my 30 Painless Classroom Poems books. Now, today, I’m sharing another poem from Fairy Tale Garage Sale, which has the concept that all the characters in fairy tales are selling off their unneeded items. It’s another Jack […]

Tagged With: 30 Painless Classroom Poems, cinquains, Fairy Tale Garage Sale, imagepoems, Laura's books, Laura's poems, Laura's readings, Poetry Friday, videos

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November Night, by Adelaide Crapsey [Poetry Friday]

May 8, 2014 By Laura

Hi, poetry fans! My Poetry Friday post, in which I share a gorgeous, short, seasonally-inappropriate poem by Adelaide Crapsey, is at Teaching Authors today. See ya there!

Tagged With: autumn, cinquains, poems, Poetry Friday

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[poetry friday] “Fire” (by Laura Purdie Salas)

July 4, 2013 By Laura

Check out the cool printable that the Poetry Friday Anthology folks created for my cinquain poem, “Fire!” As we?already know, and as sad national news is proving more than ever this week,?firefighters are truly heroes who risk their lives for our safety.?(This printable was created before that news broke.) . They have a number of […]

Tagged With: anthologies, cinquains, conferences and conventions, firefighters, Janet Wong, Laura's poems, poems, poetry books, Poetry Friday Anthologies, Sylvia Vardell

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Poetry Friday: Cinquains Everywhere!

November 7, 2008 By Laura

  Cinquains are everywhere lately! They’re a fun, simple form that can pack a big punch. Check out Kelly Fineman’s Kid Magazine Writers – Meter Readers column on cinquains! I learned some new things reading her column. Here’s a cinquain from my book, Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems About Pets (Capstone 2008), which I blogged about here. Perfect […]

Tagged With: Capstone, cinquains, Laura's books, Laura's poems, pet poems

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Weaving: an autumn cinquain

September 22, 2008 By Laura

It’s time for Pensieve’s monthly poetry challenge, Poetic License! The challenge this time? An autumn cinquain. I love cinquain, and I love autumn. This is one I actually wrote to a different image, and this is the closest I could find to share. Weaving???? Sunlight threads through stiff trees weaving a gold brown cloth The […]

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Young Authors Conference: Individual Poems from May 21

May 23, 2008 By Laura

I presented at a Young Authors Conference yesterday and worked with 4th and 5th graders all day at Anoka Ramsey Community College in Minnesota. What a great group! After some brainstorming and group writing, the kids wrote individual poems (cinquains) from the point of view of either a castle or the Loch Ness Monster.  The […]

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Young Authors Conference: Group Poems from May 21

May 23, 2008 By Laura

Hi! Thank you for your attention and participation and enthusiasm yesterday. You guys rocked! I had so much fun writing poetry with you, and I hope you did, too. Here are the three group poems we wrote yesterday. For anybody reading this who wasn’t there, we worked on cinquains that were first-person from the point […]

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