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Can I Touch Your Hair? Gets Charlotte Huck Honor! [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) And HEY! There’s a giveaway for The Poetry of US happening on Goodreads. Don’t miss your chance:>) My heart and mind are still overflowing from NCTE last week! One highlight was co-presenting with our Poetry Friday host, Irene Latham, in two different sessions (along with […]

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It’s Monday: What Are You Reading? [Fall Ball for All and Love, Agnes]

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA!  It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great […]

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A Compassionate Point of View in Poetry – World Refugee Day

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Wednesday, June 20, is World Refugee Day, and I wanted to share a poetry-writing activity I did with 3rd-8th graders in case you’re looking for a writing activity with one of your summer programs (or in years to come). Almost every year, I teach at Success Beyond the Classroom’s Young Authors Conference at Bethel University […]

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Progressive Poem Day 3 Is Here!

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So happy to be part of Irene Latham’s Progressive Poem! Here we go! Nestled in her cozy bed, a seed stretched. Oh, what wonderful dreams she had had! Blooming in midnight moonlight, dancing with Did you see the wonderful post with Heidi Mordhorst, Irene Latham, and Liz Steinglass? If so, you know that this year, […]

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NCTE Poetry Notables

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Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week! I’ll be sharing more about NCTE over the next couple of weeks here, but I finished up the conference with a session where the Poetry Committee shares its picks for best books of the year. You can find the entire list, which was announced earlier this […]

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Can’t Wait for NCTE–Will You Be There?

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I’m heading to NCTE later this week and can’t wait to catch up with many writer and educator friends. I’m part of two sessions–one with many wonderful nonfiction writers, where Irene Latham and I will share a table discussing nonfiction poetry and another focusing on digital literacy and sharing student voice using digital tools and […]

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The Progressive Poem–Complete!

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It’s so fun to see how Irene Latham’s Progressive Poem ended up. I meant to keep up and read it every single day, but I fell short. I checked in periodically, but it’s just fabulous to read the entire thing, start to finish–head on over to Irene’s blog if you haven’t seen it yet. What […]

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The Progressive Poem Begins

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Hello, and Happy Poetry Month–again! In a happy Perfect (Poetry) Storm, this is actually my third Poetry Friday post for Friday, April 1st! This one is because I am honored to be starting off Irene Latham‘s annual Progressive Poem. Irene, of Live Your Poem, invites poets each year to sign up and take one day, […]

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Congrats to Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Plus a Ken Slesarik First-Grade Poetry Project [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Life (both personal and professional) has been super busy lately, and I confess I wasn’t planning to post for Poetry Friday this week. But then… I saw that Amy Ludwig VanDerwater’s Forest Has a Song, one of my very favorite poetry collections of recent years, […]

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Unwrapped, a Wild Poetry Cheer for Irene Latham

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Happy blogiversary, Irene Latham, and thank you for inviting us to share in your theme of WILD this year! I live in the suburbs and have lived in the suburbs my whole life. I know it’s easy to trash talk about the suburbs, but, frankly, I’m pretty happy here. Would I like to live out […]

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